EdTech Portfolio
Over the years, our team has had the opportunity to work on projects, big and small, with our incredible faculty, staff, students, and partners at Stanford Health Care. We offer a wide variety of services, including video shooting and editing, animation, illustration, and motion graphics. Take a look at our portfolio to see which format best suits your needs, and schedule a consultation with us today!
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Bladder Basics
Kathleen Kan, MD | Kritika Sharma | Chenxi Liu
Introducing Bladder Basics, a captivating animated course on bladder health for kids aged 5-10! Join Dr. Kan, Bladdimir the talking bladder, and their friends in this interactive play in which learners will laugh, sing, and learn what a bladder is, what makes a bladder unhappy, what makes a bladder happy, and how to create and start a bladder health journey. Additional resources are available for parents and caregivers. Developed in partnership with Kan Lab, Stanford Healthcare's Pediatric Urology clinic.
Recent Works
A sample of EdTech's most recent projects
FAMMED 215 Patient Videos
Tianna Sheih, MD | Tamara Kailoa Montacute, MD, MPH
EdTech provided instructional design and media production support to Drs. Tamara Montacute and Tianna Sheih for the creation of two patient interview videos for long-term use in UME course FAMMED-215. These videos provide patients’ perspectives on undergoing particular clinical procedures and demonstrate the positive impact a physician can have when intentionally centering patient experiences.
MSPA Patient Simulation
Jenny Aronson, MD | Elena Dvoiris, MA
EdTech supported the Stanford MSPA program to produce short videos demonstrating effective and ineffective behaviors when engaging with patients who have limited English language proficiency and their interpreters. These videos feature Stanford faculty interacting with Spanish-speaking standardized patient actors in a clinical setting, and will help physician assistants feel more comfortable when utilizing interpreters and helping patients from underserved communities.
Disability Accommodations in Healthcare
Holly Tabor, PhD
This animated video explores the concept of accommodations and their significance in various settings, whether it's in healthcare, the workplace, or everyday life. The goal is to teach the viewer to understand what an accommodation is and why they're important, identify examples of informal and formal accommodations, and how to request accommodations.
Clinicians and Firearms
Julie Parsonnett, MD | Andrew Lithen | Allison Volkman
Clinicians and Firearms is a curriculum developed by medical students, faculty, and practicing clinicians to bridge the gap in medical education to address gun violence as a public health epidemic. This course is intended primarily for medical students, physicians, and other healthcare providers to understand the current state of gun violence in the United States, basic firearm terminology, and what we can do in the healthcare setting to prevent firearm injury for our patients.
Gender Affirming Communication in Healthcare
Travis Reece-Nguyen, MD, MPH, FAAP | Renee Billner-Garcia, DNP, RN, NPD-BC | Karen Belanger, MSN, RN, CEN | Lynn Baggese, MA, RN, PHN, IBCLC
The Gender-Affirming Communication in Healthcare course provides foundational knowledge and skills necessary to ensure the respectful and safe care of transgender and gender-diverse (TGD) patients. The course defines the value of gender affirmation and includes simple tips to listen, ask the right questions, and make patients feel seen. This hour-long content is for all staff in the healthcare setting. |
Reproductive Health Block
Kavita Mishra, MD | Kelly Ernst, MD | Erica P. Cahill, MD, MSc | Melanie O'Brien, Ph.D
This recently launched UME course on Reproductive Health Female Anatomy at the Stanford School of Medicine aims to provide students with a foundational knowledge of female reproductive health anatomy and histology. The course project focuses on redesigning the online course materials to enhance interactive and memorable learning experiences for students.
Past Works
EdTech's projects from past years
Population Health
Latha Palaniappan MD, MS | Yeuen Kim MD, MAS
This course defines population health, determinants of health, and the built environment; uses a socio-ecological model to organize different layers of determinants of health outcomes, recognizes major payors in the US healthcare system; and has some practical tips to address disparities in health outcomes across populations.
Coaching Skills
Rania Sanford, EdD, PCC | Sarah Williams, MD, MHPE, ACC
This course, which features fun role play and evidence-based didactic videos, will give medicine faculty mentors and advisors the tools and confidence to successfully deploy coaching strategies with their coachees—hopefully helping decrease burnout and foster growth mindsets.
Mastering Leadership
Cheryl Gore-Felton, PhD | Janice Lowe, MD | Cindy Ho
This hands-on lesson will help you acquire the knowledge of an effective approach that enables you to confidently initiate, lead, and conclude difficult conversations from the position of managing up or managing down in an academic medicine environment.
EdTech Podcasts
Stanford Medicine Interactive Learning Initiative
Pauline Becker | Michael McAuliffe | Joe Benfield | Jamie Tsui
The Stanford Medicine Interactive Learning Initiative (SMILI) was the school's landmark investment in bringing more active learning into the classroom. Staff and systems were brought to bear in support of faculty transforming their traditional lecture courses.