DistrictZero

🚨 DistrictZero is on the lookout to fill new roles in 2025! #CultureFit is important within impact-first companies. Please share! ⭐️ Program Producer, MedEd Produce human-in-the-loop mentorship programs with our academic medicine partners ⭐️ Strategic Advisor, MedEd Partner with the founder on emerging MedEd research and tech roadmap (MD/DO pref) ⭐️ Sales Engineer, MedEd Attract academic (B2B) medicine partners with our powerful AI-first digital tools and marketing ⭐️ Validation Engineer, RLHF Train our in-house small language model (SLM) for wellbeing impact in Academic Medicine ————— We appreciate any warm connections and transparent conversations that build long-term relationships. Roles will be posted on our jobs page throughout the year. #hiring #talentdiscovery #leanmeanteam

🌟 Supporting #AcademicNurses: Addressing Challenges Through #Mentorship Academic nurses are the backbone of healthcare education, yet they face significant challenges that can hinder their well-being and career development. Here are some key issues affecting academic nursing today: 👉 Increased workloads due to teaching, service demands, and administrative responsibilities. 👉 Low salaries and inequitable compensation, compounded by rising educational debt. 👉 High expectations for promotion and tenure with limited support. 👉 Lack of diverse faculty representation in academic settings. 👉 Unsupportive work environments, including incivility and limited leadership mentoring. 🎯 The Solution? Mentorship. At DistrictZero, we believe that tailored mentorship is key to addressing these challenges. Through our Spaced Mentorship Programs, we focus on: ✅ Leadership mentoring to foster career growth and resilience. ✅ Building equity-focused frameworks to support diverse faculty and improve inclusion. ✅ Reducing early-career workloads to promote well-being and career satisfaction. ✅ Strengthening academic practice partnerships to bridge gaps in education and clinical practice. By creating a culture of mentorship, we can empower academic nurses, improve retention, and ensure a healthier, more resilient workforce in academic medicine. Read more about these challenges and mentorship’s role in this JAHA — Journal of the American Heart Association article: https://lnkd.in/gvjs2J6n #AcademicNurses #MentorshipMatters #HealthcareEducation #BurnoutPrevention

AI models like OpenAI's #o1Preview are not just improving—they are shifting what’s possible in #clinicalreasoning. 📊 In Figure 6, we see how AI (purple) compares with GPT-4 and human estimates for probabilistic reasoning across clinical tests: ✅ AI predictions consistently align with the true range (blue shaded area). ✅ Unlike humans, AI minimizes variance and avoids extreme deviations. What does this mean for #AcademicMedicine Administrators? Integrating tools like these into training programs can help #futureclinicians: ✅ Improve diagnostic accuracy. ✅ Develop a deeper understanding of probabilistic decision-making. ✅ Enhance workflows while maintaining human judgment at the core. At DistrictZero, we reduce burnout through our #SpacedMentorship Program—empowering educators and students to deliver high-quality care with modern tools. The future of medical education isn’t about replacing humans; it’s about training clinicians to work effectively alongside AI. Read the study here: Superhuman performance of a large language model on the reasoning tasks of a physician - https://lnkd.in/e9HD2j3y #HumanInTheLoop #ClinicalReasoning #MedicalEducation #UME #UndergraduateMedicalEducation

It’s been a crazy year at DistrictZero but Arnit went above and beyond for our customers. 🙌🏽 ✅ When I needed a sales demo partner, Arnit showed up. ✅ When the customer needed unexpected hot fixes, Arnit showed up. ✅ When we needed to refactor tech-debt, Arnit showed up. Companies swing up and down, but team members are what make it worthwhile during the ruckus. Thank you Arnit Gashi 🌹 - Excited for the next year my g —————— 📸 ‘24 Team Offsite in Modena, IT 👇🏽

Fresh off the press! The Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC), ACGME, and American Association of Colleges of Osteopathic Medicine (AACOM); have just released the latest Undergraduate Medical Education (#UME) #competencies (alongside #GME updates). These new guidelines lay a stronger foundation for future physicians to excel in patient care and medical leadership. ❤️ Read the Full Report: https://lnkd.in/gunSBBeU Six 6️⃣ Foundational UME Competencies: 👉 Professionalism: Upholding integrity, respect, ethics, and inclusivity in all patient and community interactions. 👉 Patient Care & Procedural Skills: Delivering compassionate, evidence-informed, and patient-centered care. 👉 Medical Knowledge: Applying core scientific principles to improve outcomes across populations. 👉 Practice-Based Learning & Improvement: Continuously integrating feedback, evidence, and reflection to enhance clinical practice. 👉 Interpersonal & Communication Skills: Fostering clear, empathetic, and collaborative communication with patients and teams. 👉 Systems-Based Practice: Navigating the broader healthcare landscape to ensure high-quality, equitable, and accessible care. Are you a medical education administrator or student affairs professional looking to strengthen your learners’ growth and well-being? Let’s strategize to see how DistrictZero can help align your #advisory, #mentorship, or career #coaching programs with these new standards.

👏👏👏 Congratulations to Connor Furby on first #production shipments 🚢 at DistrictZero! Less than 90-days ago, Connor joined our team as a Technical QA Support Intern. He immediately started digging into user-experience challenges and reported bug discoveries to the Linear project board. Thanks to his efforts, we’ve enhanced our #HelpCenter, improved #DataInsights, and refined our #WelcomeTutorials to give first-time academic medicine users a smoother, more insightful start. Well done Connor! 👏🏽👏🏽 Special thank you to Brett Thompson, Peter Hostrawser, and the entire Naperville District 203 Career Internship Program team at Naperville Community Unit School District 203 on this great community partnership! #CTE #HighSchool #DZInternship

Per the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC)’s data below, only around 5% of U.S. physicians identify as Black and about 5.8% identify as Hispanic. To address this imbalance, #mentorship must adapt alongside a student’s evolving goals. Our updated #dynamicMatching allows medical schools to bring in their own mentors and enables students to match, rematch, or unmatch throughout their training. By facilitating flexible, targeted mentor relationships, we’re helping learners access a broader spectrum of expertise, perspectives, and role models. Ultimately, we aim to strengthen the talent pipeline so it better reflects and serves all communities. #learnerFirst #studentAgency #bringyourownmentor

🍁 This Thanksgiving, we're thankful for one special partner! 🍁 In 2023, through sheer luck and grace, we were discovered and supported by the American Heart Association Social Impact Fund (#SIF). Just like a #heart doctor, when we critically needed a life-line, #AHA 🫀 #resuscitated🫀 the DistrictZero mission. Today, our technology aligns with the 🇺🇸 nation's 🇺🇸 goals 🇺🇸 to prepare the workforce of tomorrow and enforce measurable impact across the social-determinants of health. This #Thanksgiving, we wish our teams, our partners, and our supporters; a blessed Holiday season full of warmth, love, and happiness! And a special Thank you to the ❤️ entire team at #AHA! ❤️ #socialdeterminantsofhealth #socialimpact #workforcepreparedness

You know what causes medical student #burnout? Expecting to find a mentor along your academic journey. ❌ Mentors don't respond or they don't call back. ❌ Scheduling conflicts throw off your already packed schedule. ❌ You find out late into the mentorship that this wasn't the right person for you. 🥰 At DistrictZero, we've improved the mentor matching experience to favor your dynamically changing #residencyspecialty interests, consider your #socialdeterminants of health, and even offer demographic mentor matching based on states or regions. 👉🏽 Ask your administrator to look into DistrictZero today. Learn more at www.districtzero.co to get a free PDF manifesto guide on how to address the burnout issue in academic medicine.

Did you know that DistrictZero's spaced-mentorship platform aligns with best practices emphasized in the medical education community, including approaches consistent with the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) recommendations for student support and #advisory strategies? Our recent pilot-partnership with Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine resulted in 86% of participating students reporting improved well-being, while faculty mentors experienced a 240x increase in mentorship efficiency. Through personalized tools like our Agenda Generator and real-time well-being check-ins, we supported both students and faculty in achieving their goals while addressing critical challenges like burnout and emotional well-being. Designed with the needs of Academic Medicine Departments of #StudentAffairs. let's discuss how to improve your advising and mentorship programs? Explore our case study below or visit www.districtzero.co to learn more.