Emma Sevoian, Isabelle Avenido, Kathi Pauli, and Rosalie Kalili (all Medicine) presented "Pod Power – the next level of nurturing growth and knowledge" at the 2025 Learning Communities Institute (LCI) Annual Conference.

Sunny Zhang, Amandine Roure, Bridger Woods, and Aftab Merchant (all Medicine) presented "Quantifying Early Professional Identity Formation in Medical Students: A Protocol for Assessing the Impact of Learning Communities" at the 2025 Learning Communities Institute (LCI) Annual Conference.

Sunny Zhang, Angela Herrera, Jasmin Kumar, and Amy Stone (all Medicine) presented "From Connection to Utilization: Exploring the Longitudinal Impact of Learning Community Cohesion on Medical Student Resource Engagement" at the 2025 Learning Communities Institute (LCI) Annual Conference.

Angela Herrera, Rubaab Wahid, Jasmin Kumar, Sunny Zhang, and Amy Stone (all Medicine) presented "How Group Closeness Shapes the Relationship Between Personality and Engagement in Medical School Learning Communities" at the 2025 Learning Communities Institute (LCI) Annual Conference.

Jasmin Kumar, Angela Herrera, Sunny Zhang, and Amy Stone (all Medicine) presented "Progression of Cohesiveness of Learning Communities and Individual Participation Before vs After Scrub Games" at the 2025 Learning Communities Institute (LCI) Annual Conference.

Samir Alkhouri, Jacob Hoer, Baylor Akhavan, Kathi Pauli, and Aftab Merchant (all Medicine) presented "Enhancing Early Medical Student Inclusion and Well-Being Through a Peer-Led Learning Community Orientation" at the 2025 Learning Communities Institute (LCI) Annual Conference.

Baylor Akhavan, Sierra Snow, Samir Alkhouri, and Kathi Pauli (all Medicine) presented "Academic Expectation Stress and Burnout Among Medical Students: Investigating the Protective Role of Learning Communities" at the 2025 Learning Communities Institute (LCI) Annual Conference.

Isabelle Avenido, Emma Sevoian, Kathi Pauli, and Rosalie Kalili (all Medicine) presented "Enhancing the Medical Student Experience through Learning Communities: What We Learned from Year 2 of Implementation" at the 2025 Learning Communities Institute (LCI) Annual Conference.

Michael Hixon, Kathi Pauli, Ann Diggins, and Anne Weisman (all Medicine) held a workshop at the 2025 Learning Communities Institute (LCI) Annual Conference, titled "Clerkship Connections: Using Reflective Debrief Luncheons to Foster Community and Support Student Growth." Attendees explored the design and evolution of clerkship debrief…

Isabelle Avenido, Kathi Pauli, and Rosalie Kalili (all Medicine), along with individuals from Heersink School of Medicine, held a workshop at the 2025 Learning Communities Institute (LCI) Annual Conference, titled "Engaging Student Leadership in Learning Communities: Building from Scratch or Leveling Up: Practical Models,…

Kavita Batra, Joshua Khorsandi, and Michael Dagovetz (Medicine) published a study, "The association between COVID-19 vaccination status, knowledge, and attitudes among pre-service life science teachers in South Africa," in the Medicine journal. This was a collaborative effort from South Africa, Italy, and Spain. The study emphasizes the pressing…

Kathi Pauli (Medicine), director of learning communities and manager of well-being and integrative medicine, was nominated by Dr. Aftab Merchant and Ann Diggins and has received the Susan Shultz Award for Professional Staff at the 2025 Learning Communities Institute (LCI) National Meeting. This award recognizes outstanding professional staff…