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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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“Climate change is the greatest threat to global health in the 21st century.” – The World Health Organization

A New Rx Brick Collection from MeSAGE

The Medical Student Alliance for Global Education, or MeSAGE, has released its newest collection of Rx Bricks, which focuses on Planetary Health. This set of free, open-access digital learning modules from ScholarRx covers the interplay between human health and the environment, aiming to equip current and future healthcare professionals with everything they need to effectively address the impact of a shifting climate.

Why Planetary Health?

The climate continues to impact our lives, leading the World Health Organization to say, “It threatens the essential ingredients of good health – clean air, safe drinking water, nutritious food supply and safe shelter – and has the potential to undermine decades of progress in global health.”

According to WHO, “Between 2030 and 2050, climate change is expected to cause approximately 250,000 additional deaths per year from malnutrition, malaria, diarrhea, and heat stress alone. The direct damage costs to health are estimated to be between US $2-4 billion per year by 2030. Areas with weak health infrastructure – mostly in developing countries – will be the least able to cope without assistance to prepare and respond.”

We see the effects of climate change more and more each year. From warming, rising oceans to hotter temperatures, increased drought, and more severe storms, it’s nearly impossible to escape them. As these effects lead to species losses, less food, poverty, displacement, and compounding health risks, we must prepare health professionals for the myriad of questions and issues they will see.

These Bricks provide an in-depth look into how planetary health will affect the medical profession. Climate change’s impacts on different sectors of society are interrelated, with drastic results and harmful consequences hovering on the horizon. This interrelation will influence many doctors’ care decisions, and having a solid foundational understanding of planetary health is vital.

Created under the oversight of lead editor and planetary health expert Michelle McLean, Ph.D., these peer-reviewed Bricks are quick and easy to deploy in your curriculum or courses. Topics in the Planetary Health collection include:

• Air Pollution
• Climate Change and Health
• Environmental Justice
• Food and Water Security
• Mental Health and the Environment
• Severe Weather Events

And so much more. Please learn more about the collection here.

What is MeSAGE?

MeSAGE aims to empower student organizations with the tools and expertise to build medical education content that often falls outside the traditional curriculum and make that content freely available to any student, school, or institution worldwide.

MeSAGE is the largest student-driven curriculum alliance on the planet, composed of student organizations representing over 1.3 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 Scientsists’ Association
• AMSA-International: Asian Medical Students’ Association
• EMSA: The European Medical Students’ Association
• FAMSA: Federation of African Medical Students’ Associations
• 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

MeSAGE utilizes the groundbreaking digital learning platform Rx Bricks to create interactive educational modules that focus on critical topics identified during a global needs assessment, including sexual and reproductive health and rights, digital health, planetary health, students as educators, and diversity, equity, and inclusion. Together, we aim to leverage the expertise and passion of medical students to develop engaging and open medical education content that educators worldwide can use.

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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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If so, we have a special reason for you to visit us at Booth 226 for the AAMC’s annual meeting: an opportunity to see the groundbreaking Rx Brick Exchange and a chance to win a new Apple Watch Series 8!

We invite all med educators to stop by Booth 226 and learn about the world’s first health professions curriculum exchange and how it will help advance the cause of building a healthier world through accessible and sustainable medical education.

Imagine having a consistent repository of curricular materials and learning frameworks that can be rapidly deployed and customized to suit your unique curriculum needs and goals. That’s Rx Bricks.

When you connect this with our suite of assessment tools, including our sequestered Rx Bricks Assessment Banks (powered by ExamSoft), you’ll see why so many schools are turning to ScholarRx to help them bolster their curriculum with high-quality digital learning experiences and premium assessment solutions to generate positive education outcomes.

We hope to see you this weekend at Learn Serve Lead!

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ScholarRx is proud to announce a new partnership with the National Association of Medical Spanish (NAMS), which works to improve the quality of care for Spanish-speaking patients. 

The partnership will focus on the collaboration and development of open access, sharable Bricks in areas related to medical Spanish, designed to be published and shared across the world. ScholarRx will be providing grant support to fund the collaborative development and implementation efforts.

Along with helping to drive and develop the medical Spanish curriculum, NAMS members will receive access to these materials through the Rx Bricks digital learning system developed by ScholarRx, including the Bricks Create authoring platform. 

According to Dr. Pilar Ortega, Founder and President of NAMS, “Our team is very excited about the opportunity to partner with ScholarRx on increasing accessible high-quality educational resources for communicating with the Hispanic/Latinx community. Many students and doctors have some Spanish skills they would like to use in patient care but may lack the resources to use or enhance those skills professionally. Improving how we teach clinicians to effectively use their skills to communicate with linguistically diverse patient populations is key to advancing health equity through education, and NAMS is proud to play a pioneering role through medical Spanish content.” 

“NAMS is playing a critical role in helping achieve global health equity by focusing on the improvement of patient-physician communication through medical Spanish,” said Dr. Tao Le, founder, and CEO of ScholarRx. “We are pleased to support their important work in preparing health professionals so that they can provide linguistically and culturally appropriate care to the Spanish-speaking patients they serve.” 

About Scholar Rx

ScholarRx is a mission-based organization of passionate medical educators, designers, and technologists dedicated to building a healthier world through accessible, sustainable medical education. ScholarRx offers a revolutionary, low-cost, multi-competency curriculum system featuring interconnectable “learning bricks,” powered by the groundbreaking Rx Bricks Create authoring tool, helping make this the world’s first sharable health science curriculum platform.

About NAMS

NAMS is a non-profit interdisciplinary group of highly qualified medical and language professionals who work together to improve health equity, patient safety, clinician communication skills, and quality of care for Spanish-speaking students. Our goal is to create a standardized evidence-based approach to teaching medical Spanish as well as promoting and assessing bilingualism among students and clinicians in the United States.  

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Dr. Woods is a cognitive psychologist who received her PhD at McMaster University in 2005. Dr. Woods leads an internationally recognized research program that uses methods and principles from cognitive psychology to advance medical education theory and practice. Her research has significant implications for education across the developmental continuum and for a variety of health disciplines. Although most closely linked to undergraduate education, her work has implications for the development of expertise along the entire spectrum of professional education. In 2021, Dr. Woods was named one of Canada’s Top 100 Most Powerful Women.

Dr. Woods currently serves as Scientist & Associate Director of Operations at The Wilson Centre, a member of the University of Toronto and the University Health Network (UHN). She is also:

• The Richard and Elizabeth Currie Chair in Health Professions Education Research at UHN
• Director, The Institute for Education Research (TIER) at UHN
• Associate Professor – Department of Family and Community Medicine

Dr. Woods said, “I am truly looking forward to contributing to the incredible work of ScholarRx. The opportunities for innovation and cutting edge education are endless.”

“I am thrilled that Nikki has agreed to join our ScholarRx Academic Advisory Board,” said Dr. Prober. “Her deep and internationally recognized expertise in cognitive psychology will help us to optimize the use of ScholarRx bricks in drawing the critical connections between foundational science, clinical reasoning, and future clinical practice: the Holy Grail of impactful medical education.”

ScholarRx is a mission-driven organization currently serving over 150,000 medical students and physician learners annually. ScholarRx recently launched Rx Bricks, a revolutionary componentized, multi-competency curricular platform that empowers faculty and medical schools to rapidly build and deploy high-quality education experiences, even in resource-constrained environments.

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As a part of this partnership, APSA becomes a charter member of ScholarRx’s Medical Student Alliance for Global Education, or MeSAGE. MeSAGE empowers student organizations with the tools and expertise to build medical educational content that is often missing from standard curriculum.

This partnership will focus on developing curriculum on platforms that are critical to APSA, including but not limited to:

• Tomorrow’s physician
• Diversity/inclusion​
• Women in science and medicine

Along with helping to drive and develop this curriculum, APSA members will be granted access to these materials through the Rx Bricks digital learning system developed by ScholarRx, including the new Bricks Create authoring platform.

APSA’s president, Jose Rodrigues, states, “APSA is the leading voice for physician-scientist trainees. We pride ourselves in supporting the development of a robust and diverse physician-scientist workforce. Our team is committed to building value for our members, and thus we are excited about our partnership with ScholarRx. By providing cutting-edge resources in medical curricula, this partnership will enable our members to support their own training as the next generation of physician-scientists and leaders in science and medicine.”

Dr. Tao Le, founder and CEO of ScholarRx, comments, “Through MeSAGE, we are excited to partner with APSA to address deep education needs at a global level and to help future physician scientists define, build, and learn the key content that may be missing from the standard curriculum.”

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Dr. Haramati is a Professor of Integrative Physiology and the co-director of the Graduate Program in Integrative Medicine & Health Sciences at Georgetown University Medical Center (GUMC). He received a PhD in Physiology from the University of Cincinnati and trained at Mayo Clinic before coming to Georgetown. In 2013, he was named the Founding Director of the Center for Innovation and Leadership in Education (CENTILE) at GUMC. For the past two decades, Dr. Haramati’s research has focused on medical education and rethinking how health professionals are trained.

Dr. Haramati has been recognized with multiple awards including the Alpha Omega Alpha Robert J. Glaser Distinguished Teaching Award from the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC), the Master Scholar Award from the International Association of Medical Science Educators (IAMSE), and named Distinguished Educator by the GUMC Teaching Academy for Health Sciences. He is Chair-elect of the Council of Faculty and Academic Societies of the AAMC and currently serves on the AAMC Board of Directors. Dr. Haramati has advocated that mindful practices be integrated in the training of health professionals to foster resilience and improve well-being in learning and work environments at academic health centers. He has been a visiting professor at over 100 medical schools worldwide.

Dr. Haramati said, “I am honored to join this distinguished group of advisors to help advance the mission of ScholarRx of improving learning in medical schools around the world.”

“I am thrilled that Adi has agreed to join our ScholarRx Academic Advisory Board,” said Dr. Prober. “He is a renowned medical educator who has made substantial contributions to the field. We are excited to have this opportunity to favorably impact global medical education.”

ScholarRx is a mission-driven organization currently serving over 150,000 medical students and physician learners annually. ScholarRx is trusted by medical students to prepare for the boards through its comprehensive USMLE-Rx digital learning environment. ScholarRx recently launched Rx Bricks, a revolutionary componentized, multi-competency curricular platform that empowers faculty and medical schools to rapidly develop high-quality education experiences, even in resource-constrained environments.

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