About Us
The GIMHS eLearning platform powered by Osmosis. Osmosis has been used by millions of learners and hundreds of the most innovative medical institutions. It’s our honor to partner with institutions with the shared goal of providing our future caregivers with the best learning experience possible.
Join over 3 million current & future clinicians who learn by Osmosis, and over 130 universities around the world who partner with us to make medical and health education more engaging and efficient. We have unparalleled tools and materials to prepare you to succeed in school, on board exams, and as a future clinician. If you’re interested in exploring an institutional partnership,
Mission
To make medical education accessible to all and increase scientific and medical literacy among learners and care providers.
Why Osmosis eLearning?
For allied-health and health science students and faculty who could benefit from engaging supplemental content, Osmosis provides an animated video library that makes complex content more efficient, engaging, and memorable. And unlike traditional medical content, our videos are built for today’s learners, who are digital-natives and video aficionados
The platform includes 1,800 animated videos and 22,000 integrated practice questions and is driven by learning science, from the delivery of content through chunking and multimedia design principles, to the retention of knowledge through test-enhanced learning and spaced repetition. We serve over 150 institutions and health systems, and a global audience of over one million learners.
How Osmosis Platform works
Recent data from 81 universities show that keeping students engaged is a major concern
Osmosis is a visual learning platform rooted in learning science has proven to increase student engagement and leads to their success
Osmosis does this by applying learning science principles including
- Testing effect
- Space Repetition
- Interleaving (mixing up your studying) – increases the likelihood of applying the material to new real-world situations
- Memory Palace – Remembering specific place for abstract information
- Content Chunking to deliver thousands of highly effective and engaging video content, over 6000 clinical case questions and over 15. 000 flashcards.
Osmosis empowers you with the best learning experience possible.
Learning and remembering all the new complex concepts and how they fit together in the context of patient care can be a lot to take on. That’s why we designed Osmosis. Osmosis takes into account cognitive load and makes the complex simple to understand. In doing so, it helps you feel more confident and prepared for the exams. Importantly it will make your learning fun whilst still highly active and authentic.
It does this by providing you access with easy, concise and easy to understand videos to help you learn and retain more in less time.
“Osmosis makes even the most complex systems simple through expertly illustrated visuals based on learning science. This means your students can grasp complicated concepts quickly, and retain the information longer than simply listening to a lecture. Now you can supplement your lectures with visuals that make the concepts come alive.”
“illustrated videos plus linked assessment items that support teaching and learning”
All videos are expertly designed, developed and illustrated by world class academic to promote the active learning that engages your senses and makes your information stick. The combination of thousands of effectively written flashcards and QBank questions to practice key concepts quickly and apply your knowledge in addition to high yield notes, will make studying medicine manageable.
Osmosis supports all medical and health related professions including medicine, dentistry, nursing, emergency medical care or any other health profession.
IMPROVED STUDENT EXPERIENCE
- Minimize cognitive load to maximize usability and engagement – Video chapters allow for bite sized learning
- Inclusive and diverse learning design to accommodate different learning styles
- i.e. Students can learn visually and control what comes next
- the ability to scan video transcripts to sync with learning objectives
- High accessible content – content accessible to all via closed captioning
- Scan Video at 2 x for lecture alignment
- NCLEX style assessment to reinforce learning objectives
