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Multiple, Impactful Images

One of the significant advantages of the image carousel is that you can add multiple images to your Brick. Before now, it was always a struggle to display and compare various images of medical conditions, especially when there are different stages to be covered. But that’s not the case anymore. With an image carousel, you can comfortably add up to ten images, allowing students to scroll horizontally through the photos with a simple click. This new method of displaying multiple images can add more visual impact to your teaching, making it easier for students to understand each stage of the medical condition.

Adding an image carousel is as easy as adding an image, a card, or a formula. To do so, use the toolbar and select the “Image Carousel” option.

You can drag and drop your images or use your device’s file finder to load them one at a time. Within the image carousel, you can add up to ten photos to display best whatever you’re trying to share with students.

You also have the option to add descriptions and attributions to your images and a title for them.

Your Slide Deck, Easily Accessible

We’ve also updated capabilities to include embedding PowerPoints, Google Slides, or PDFs. To embed a presentation, add a new element to your Brick, click “< >,”  aka “Add Embed,” and paste the link to your presentation. However, note that you can only embed presentations that are on the web or uploaded to a cloud-based server. Presentations that live on your computer or device cannot be embedded.

Improving Teaching and Learning Outcomes

Incorporating these new features encourages educators to create more engaging, interactive, and impactful courses. A histology class, for instance, can leverage the image carousel to teach students about cellular structures better. The carousel can help professors showcase various aspects of the cell that the students need to learn about, such as the Golgi apparatus, the nucleus, and the mitochondria.

High-Yield Learning That’s Faculty Friendly

At ScholarRx, we’re committed to delivering an exceptional learning experience. The new features we’ve introduced today, the image carousel and the ability to embed presentations, will make online teaching more engaging and impactful. We’re excited to see how you use these new features.!

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To ring in March, we have released two updated Brick editions – Hematology and Cardiovascular. We consistently update our Bricks to stay up-to-date and accurate. Still, we also conduct more extensive revisions of the collections to improve your students’ learning experience.

You can access the first editions, toggle seamlessly between both, or move forward with the new versions. Check out the Conversion Guides below for more information.

Switch Easily Between Brick Versions

You can just use Editions 1 and 2 with little effort. Click the down arrow and move the collections with ease!

Why were these Bricks updated?

Students and faculty from across the world reach out with feedback on ScholarRx’s Bricks, and when you do, we listen. We aim for our Bricks to be evergreen, and while we always strive for accuracy, we make revisions when there are ways in which we can improve our approach and content. We are incredibly thankful to all who have helped us achieve our mission of sustainable medical education by enhancing our instructional design.

Is anything else new?

We continued beyond updates, of course. You will also see the following:

• New and improved illustrations
• Fewer mnemonics
• More standardized Bricks with formatting you will find throughout our platform
• Even more high-yield content
• Please learn more by reading our Conversion Guides:
  • Cardiovascular Conversion Guide
  • Hematology Conversion Guide
    • PDF
    • Word

We hope you and your students put these updated Bricks to good use. Together, we’re on the path toward sustainable, engaging medical education.

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In the world of medicine, every patient encounter can be seen as a teaching encounter.  Medical students learn early on that they must be able to educate patients and their families about diagnoses, lab tests, and treatments. As they become physicians and/or scientists, the opportunities and desire to teach often increase. But teaching is a skill that must be developed. 

The collection of New Educator bricks was created by an international team of young authors, and designed for anyone with an interest in teaching and medical education. 

Topics in The New Educator collection include:

• Learning Principles
• Teaching Principles
• Instructional Design
• Assessment and Evaluation
• Scholarship in Medical Education
• Teaching and Learning in the Classroom
• Teaching and Learning in the Clinical Environment
• Teaching and Learning in the Virtual Environment
• Interprofessional Education
• Curriculum Development and Design
• The Medical Education Curriculum
• Quality Assurance in Medical Education
• Student Involvement and Advocacy

The aim of MeSAGE is to empower student organizations with the tools and expertise to build medical education content that often falls outside of the traditional curriculum, and make that content freely available to any student, school, or institution in the world.

MeSAGE is the largest student-driven curriculum alliance on the planet, composed of student organizations from different regions of the world. Our members represent over 1 million medical students in over 130 countries, from partners including:

• AMSA: The American Medical Student Association
• AMWA: The American Medical Women’s Association
• APSA: American Physician Scientists’ Association
• AMSA-International: Asian Medical Students’ Association
• EMSA: The European Medical Students’ Association
• IFMSA: International Federation of Medical Students Associations
• Phi Delta Epsilon: The International Medical Fraternity
• SNMA: The Student National Medical Association
• SNO: Student Network Organization
• SOMA: The Student Osteopathic Medical Association

Dr. Tao Le, Founder and CEO of ScholarRx, said, “Through MeSAGE, we are excited to partner with leading student organizations to address educational needs at a global and societal level and help medical students define, build, and learn the key content that may be missing from the standard curriculum.”

Using the revolutionary digital learning platform, Rx Bricks, MeSAGE is building free interactive educational modules that address a wide range of topics, from health equity and human rights to medical education and digital health. Together, we aim to leverage the expertise and passion of medical students to develop engaging and open medical education content.

The first MeSAGE collection was released last year, covering the critical area of Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights. Upcoming MeSAGE collections include:

• Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion 
• Digital Health 
• Social Accountability 
• Climate Change and Health 
• Health Policy and Advocacy 
• Leadership and Management Skills

You can access the bricks for free through our website. Learn more here: www.mesage.org

About ScholarRx: ScholarRx is a mission-driven organization currently serving over 150,000 medical students and physician learners annually. ScholarRx has developed a revolutionary componentized, multi-competency curricular platform that empowers medical schools and medical student organizations to rapidly develop high-quality education experiences, even in resource-constrained environments.

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