Year in Review: 2022 at Osmosis

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A year of significant change for Osmosis, 2022 has brought a variety of new faces, challenges, and opportunities, and we couldn’t ask for a better partner than Elsevier to join us on this incredible journey. Throughout it all, the spirit of collaboration and kindness has paved the way to advance the Osmosis mission to empower the world’s clinicians and caregivers with the best learning experience possible.

Together with Elsevier, we’ve reached further than ever before while doing truly gratifying work. There’s a lot to cover, so let’s get right to it.

Osmosis and Elsevier Coming Together for Good

Reaching out to people in need

If you’re familiar with the Osmosis values, you know that we “start with the heart.” For example, in 2018, we collaborated with and gave free access to Osmosis to thousands of Syrian medical students to make medical school more manageable. In 2022, together with Elsevier and parent company RELX, Osmosis partnered with UNICEF and the Red Cross to provide funding to supply water, food, warm clothing, first aid training, and medical supplies to communities affected by the war. In addition, we’re offering free access to ClinicalKey, Complete Anatomy, and Osmosis to Ukrainian healthcare students, enabling people to get the information they need right now. This is just a sample of our ongoing tradition to provide tangible help to people and communities in need. And by teaming up with Elsevier and RELX, we can increase our impact around the globe.

Bridging the gap

We’re happy to share that we’ve made important strides in ensuring our entire team is focused on using inclusive language and imagery in our videos and other content. Additionally, Elsevier continues to focus on improving diversity and representation in healthcare educational content following the release of the world’s most advanced, fully-female anatomical 3D model by Complete Anatomy. It now allows users to choose from a broad range of physical features best suited for each program’s educational needs. The design team also took great care when deciding what language to describe various tools in the model, such as avoiding labels for body types as well as removing the idea of a default skin tone.

The launch of Osmosis in Spanish

With Elsevier’s resources and expertise, Osmosis has made meaningful progress on a project we’ve wanted to take on for years – translating (aka localizing) Osmosis in Spanish. That’s right! We launched a Spanish-language option for select products in October 2022. There’s still work to do, but this is the first step on a long overdue project. Look for more languages to arrive on the Osmosis platform over the next few years. 

Redesigning our mobile app

In April, we updated our mobile app for medicine, filling it with new features and making it even easier to navigate and learn. The user interface was completely redesigned, letting learners quickly jump back to where they left off in a lesson. We’ve made the search easier to use and more effective. We also added several new features, including a daily practice quiz, a “watch later” playlist, and of course, the ever-popular High Yield Notes. And don’t worry, we’ve kept features like offline mode and practice questions with detailed explanations. With so many people using their mobile devices to learn on the go or just chillaxing at home, we’re excited to make their experience more pleasant and powerful.

Keeping Osmosis content up to date

Osmosis is dedicated to ensuring that the knowledge we offer our learners is timely, relevant, and accurate. To ensure that happens, we’ve completed a quality review, revision, and update of all Osmosis questions in 2022, including foundational sciences, organ systems, and USMLE®, COMLEX-USA®, and PANCE® questions. Even our Quiz Builder tool has been updated to help contextualize learning, reflect an appropriate style and difficulty level for high-stakes board exams, include more inclusive language, and portray diverse patient encounters. This update means that some of the older questions and content Osmosis learners are familiar with may have been removed, but the new content will be easier to find and higher quality than ever before!

Osmosis Nursing Had a Big Year

Creating an Osmosis nursing app

We didn’t just update the Osmosis mobile app for medicine this year. We also made a whole new app, one specifically for nursing students. With this new mobile app, nursing learners can focus on content specifically relevant to their work. The app also gives nurses access to the new Osmosis library of nursing-specific content, thousands of NCLEX®-style questions, and detailed answer explanations, including Next-Gen.

Expanding our nursing content

We also now have hundreds of new nursing videos, questions, and content coverage of courses like Medical-Surgical Nursing, Maternal-Newborn Nursing, and Fundamentals of Nursing. We also have a range of nursing video series aligned with educational standards in the nursing field. For example, our nursing process series (ADPIE) offers a systemic guide to providing client-centered care and developing clinical judgment. Our nursing pharmacology videos and med tables specifically focus on covering information nurses need to know, like medication indications, side effects, and client education, without getting bogged down in complex pharmacokinetic material other healthcare providers need to know.

Learners also get access to our RN (Registered Nurse) Quiz Builder – a tool that lets students build their own custom NCLEX-RN practice exams that helps them focus on competencies they are struggling with. It’s a powerful tool any prospective graduate will benefit from.

And finally – our nursing content is now available in Australia and New Zealand and has been revised and crafted specifically for those audiences.

Raise the Line Faculty Awards 2022

Once again, Osmosis has hosted the Raise the Line Faculty Awards, where we highlight inspirational educators responsible for training the next generation of healthcare professionals. Faculty nominations are submitted by students and peers who want to recognize their hard work to consistently “Raise the Line” and increase the capacity of healthcare systems worldwide.

A big thank you to everyone who submitted a nomination. This year, we received over 1,000 nominations covering 375 institutions globally! We are delighted to be able to recognize so many outstanding educators making a difference every day.

Congratulations to the Grand Prize recipients in each category:

Kishore Gopal Banerjee – Manipal University College of Malaysia (MD/DO)
Beth Hendricks RN, MSN-PCCN(K) – New Mexico State University (RN/NP)
Athanasios Hassoulas (PhD, SFHEA, CPsychol) – Cardiff University (Other Health Professional)
Michael Moore – University of Michigan – Flint (PA)
Joanne Baxter – University of Otago (DEI- Diversity, Equity & Inclusion)
Susan Spielberg – Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine (Student Advisor)
Nicolene Lottering – Bond University (Anatomy & Physiology)
Theodosia Adanu – University of Ghana Medical School (Librarian)

Developing new ways to raise awareness

Over the past few years, the Raise the Line podcast has hosted hundreds of guest speakers, many of whom work with people with rare diseases. A common request we’ve received from our guests and followers is the need for more high-quality educational resources for the more than three million patients with rare diseases—which has inspired us to do something about it. Discover more about the “Year of the Zebra” below.

Top Webinars

We hosted a wide range of webinars for our learners, partners, and clinicians. These are the top webinar topics from 2022:

What’s Coming in 2023

Welcome to the Year of the Zebra

2023 is the 40th anniversary of the Orphan Drug Act, which gave hope to the hundreds of millions of people around the world who are directly affected by rare disorders (also known as “zebras” because they are less common than horses). Osmosis and Elsevier Health are launching an ambitious initiative called “The Year of the Zebra” to educate millions of current and future healthcare professionals, caregivers, researchers, patients, family members, and the general public about these zebras. We are inviting an exclusive group of organizations and individuals to “adopt” one or more zebras by contributing to the development and distribution of highly engaging and impactful educational content about those rare disorders that will collectively reach millions of people around the world. For more information, please get in touch at [email protected].

Our newest learning resource for clinical students

We’re launching a new Clinical Practice tool in the spring of 2023 and couldn’t be more excited! This fantastic learning resource is designed to help learners feel more confident in their clinical diagnosis and management decisions during medical clerkships. It covers seven core specialties and includes hundreds of new topics using a video-first curriculum with decision-making trees to explain key concepts and the reasoning behind making clinical decisions.

And now, some numbers

One of our favorite things is to look back and see how far we’ve come in a year. Take a look at the 2022 stats.

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