Firecracker will be in Chicago attending AMA 2017 and here's how you can find us:

1. Swing by booth 15 in the networking lounge

2. Stop by our space at kiosk 7 in the foyer

3. Say hello at our happy hour at the Boleo Rooftop Bar in the Kimpton Gray Hotel at 6pm on Friday

Firecracker is helping to drive change in medical education by empowering students to engage in self-directed study, enabling faculty to curate a student's curricular experience on our platform, supporting administrator's programmatic analysis and reporting needs, and providing everyone with data-driven high-quality assessments across a wide spectrum of formative and summative testing needs.

Sue Shellenbarger published an article today in The Wall Street Journal that touched on many of Firecracker's core values as a learning platform. Here are a few highights:

Firecracker’s platform supports schools who wish to integrate proven learning strategies throughout their programs in a pedagogically robust manner. The table below lists just a few studies highlighting the impact to student outcomes that these proven techniques enable.

As we turn the corner into 2017, many students and faculty at medical schools shift their focus toward planning for licensing exams. For schools that integrate preparation for these exams into their curriculum, they probably know which students are at risk of underperforming. Here is a screenshot of the dashboard we provide to our partners:

In the event that you are looking for some reading over the holidays, we highly recommend the annual Medical Education issue (12/6/2016) of the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA). You can listen to the Editor's Audio Summary by Robert M. Golub, MD, Deputy Editor of JAMA or read full articles using the online JAMA reader app.

Firecracker is here at AAMC 2016 and we'll be posting some insights from many of the great sessions. One of these sessions was LCME Accreditation: A Tool for Improvement, presented by the following faculty and staff:

We're excited to launch our new Institution Dashboard at this year's AAMC Conference. Swing by our booth (#429) which is strategically located right across from the food and beverage area. Our team is already on the ground and we'll be there through Tuesday 11/15. You can learn more about our new dashboard and how best to connect with us by visiting our dashboard page: