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Bricks Create Gets Faster, Smarter, and More Visual
April 2026 Release | ScholarRx The April 2026 release of Bricks Create introduces powerful new ways to author faster, navigate content effortlessly, and generate high-quality visuals, all without leaving the editor. Here’s what’s new. Generate Images Without Leaving the Editor TAI Image Generation is here. Describe the illustration you need in plain language, choose an…
Why Your Students Hit a Wall on Their First NBME Exam…and What You Can Do About It
A practical guide for course directors who want to build board-style reasoning into their preclinical courses without overhauling their curriculum. You’ve seen it before. A student who performed well on your in-house exams sits down for their first NBME subject exam and freezes. The vignette is three paragraphs long. There are lab values they’ve seen before but…
A New Way to Organize and Build Assessments in ScholarRx
Faculty spend a remarkable amount of time finding, reviewing, and assembling questions. Not because good items are hard to find, but because it is difficult to keep everything aligned, organized, and reusable across courses, terms, and teaching teams. Today, we are introducing a new way to do that inside the ScholarRx Faculty Portal. With…
New Student Success Bricks Collection to Empower Students and the Faculty Who Support Them
ScholarRx has released a new seven-module Student Success collection inside Rx Academy, a hub designed to help students and faculty get the most out of the ScholarRx learning ecosystem. These Bricks address a core gap in medical education: students face massive workloads but often lack clear guidance on how to learn effectively, manage their time,…
Reclaiming Faculty Time with TAI: The AI Teaching Assistant Built for Medical Education
Medical educators face an impossible choice: spend hours converting PowerPoint decks into interactive modules and crafting board-style assessment questions, or shortchange curriculum quality. What if you didn’t have to choose? At ScholarRx, we believe AI should amplify faculty expertise, not replace it. That’s why we built TAI (Teaching with Artificial Intelligence), an AI assistant embedded…
A Smarter Way to Actively Engage Students: ScholarRx Faculty Office Hours Replay
Medical education is evolving, and so are the ways we help students stay engaged, think critically, and apply knowledge in meaningful ways. During our recent ScholarRx Faculty Office Hours session, our team explored how Rx Bricks can help faculty bring active learning to life in the classroom and beyond. If you couldn’t join us live,…
ScholarRx Launches 2025 MERIC Grant to Support Global Medical Education Research & Innovation
ScholarRx is excited to announce the launch of the 2025 Medical Education Research and Innovation Challenge (MERIC), a small-grants program designed to advance educational scholarship and innovation in health professions education. Through MERIC, ScholarRx will fund research projects that explore new teaching methods, strengthen curriculum design, and enhance assessment practices—all leveraging the ScholarRx/USMLE-Rx learning ecosystem,…
Introducing Bricks with TAI: A Faster, Framework-Driven Way to Build Curriculum
Every medical educator knows the challenge: you have expertise to share, students eager to learn, and never enough time to create the high-quality, interactive educational content your curriculum deserves. Bricks with TAI (Teaching with Artificial Intelligence) accelerates your curriculum development process while maintaining the educational quality and personal touch that makes your teaching effective. What…
Brick Builder Grant Winners 2025
Empowering Global Medical Education The Brick Builder Grant is a ScholarRx initiative empowering educators and students worldwide to create innovative, free, open-access digital learning modules, or “Bricks,” focused on underrepresented medical topics. By providing essential tools and support, the grant aims to revolutionize global medical education through innovation. What do winners receive? $500 in funding…