NEJM Healer gives resource-strapped educators a new way to teach, develop, and assess clinical reasoning, with tools appropriate for programs with a robust clinical reasoning curriculum, as well as those looking to begin one.
Across the medical education ecosystem, educators are concerned about having sufficient objective and standardized assessments to balance their subjective evaluations. They are struggling with how to teach and assess essential clinical knowledge and clinical reasoning skills and efficiently give learners the opportunity for deliberate practice.
NEJM Healer addresses these challenges. Based on sound cognitive and clinical reasoning science and objective assessment, it allows educators to create or augment a case-based curriculum and assess learner performance.
NEJM Healer is a comprehensive clinical reasoning learning engine that can be used throughout all phases of training. It helps learners improve their clinical reasoning skills while allowing educators to objectively measure what matters. Whether your learners are preclinical students preparing for clerkship or preceptorship, in their clinical rotations, transitioning to residency, or later in their residency, NEJM Healer better prepares them for the next stage of learning and patient care.
NEJM Healer gives resource-strapped educators a new way to teach, develop, and assess clinical reasoning, with tools appropriate for programs with a robust clinical reasoning curriculum, as well as those looking to begin one.
NEJM Healer can supplement an educator’s existing case-based or clinical reasoning curricula with engaging teaching materials and an easy way to create and manage assignments.
NEJM Healer is a complete clinical reasoning resource for educators who lack the resources for a curriculum to explicitly teach and assess it.
NEJM Healer provides a structured approach to learning, helping learners develop discrete skills derived from sound, cognitive science.
NEJM Healer speeds learning by providing opportunities for deliberate practice of clinical reasoning.
NEJM Healer eliminates educator bias by providing extensive objective feedback.
NEJM Healer helps educators quickly identify students who are struggling and provides targeted opportunities for remediation and coaching.
NEJM Healer substantially reduces the time and resources required to teach and assess clinical reasoning and clinical knowledge, freeing educators to focus on other responsibilities.
Give preclinical learners confidence in gathering information, making broad differential diagnoses, and narrowing diagnostic uncertainty. Help clinical learners finetune their skills and evaluate and prepare them during transition to residency.
Establish a baseline for incoming residents and identify those who would benefit from lower-patient-touch, initial rotations. Remediate struggling residents to help them absorb the cognitive skills they need to make accurate diagnoses. Support mastery of clinical reasoning and ability to demonstrate and instill these skills in interns.
Use in both didactic and clinical years to obtain a formative assessment of PA students, supplement lecture-based instruction and multiple-choice question exams, and identify students who need remediation.
Our robust Educator Portal makes it easy to create and track assignments and assess performance. With an intuitive interface and extensive reporting, the NEJM Healer Educator Portal:
Assigning cases in NEJM Healer is easy!
The case library in the educator portal provides all the info educators need about each case, including the lead diagnosis and key teaching points and they can search and filter cases according to:
NEJM Healer provides reporting on both learners’ performance and progress to help educators track individual learners and cohorts at each stage of a case and for the case as a whole.
These reporting data present educators with powerful insights into learners’ clinical reasoning profile according to both objective and self-assessed measures.
Educators can get quick snapshots of the key assessments above and interact with graphs showing how learners compare with each other across an assignment, making it easy to identify outliers. Want to delve deeper? Download .csv files that show how every learner did on each measure, including their problem representations and differentials at each stage. Want to work in depth with a single learner? Access and print their detailed end-of-case reports.
With NEJM Healer, learners develop and refine their clinical reasoning skills through deliberate practice. Working through virtual cases presented in a realistic and engaging manner, learners gather data to inform their differential diagnosis, learning to discriminate which pieces of data are important. At each step in this deliberate practice, learners:
Have access to gold-standard content from NEJM Group, the world’s most trusted source for medical research and education.
Deepen their clinical knowledge of key presentations and diseases.
Gain an understanding of the diagnostic schemas that drive turning points in their differential.
Create unique, interactive illness scripts and receive assessment and interactive graphical feedback on their concordance with experts.
Reflect on their performance to develop self-awareness around their diagnostic strengths and weaknesses and gaps in their clinical knowledge.
Learn how to build problem representations, differentials, and management plans and compare theirs with experts, with detailed rationales provided.
Receive the equivalent of hours’ worth of feedback from experts.
Practice clinical reasoning across multiple clinical scenarios until they master how it applies generally.
Understand how to instantiate illness scripts while developing the knowledge to ask the right questions and identify the key differentiating data across a wide swath of clinical scenarios.
Improve their confidence and be empowered to face the next stage in their career.
Dozens of virtual patient encounters
Expert problem representations, management plans, differential diagnoses, and rationales to help guide learners
Hundreds of diseases to consider
An overview of clinical reasoning and a glossary of key terms
100+ expert illness scripts to provide and support students’ clinical knowledge
Detailed assessment of clinical reasoning skills