The Web Initiative for Surgical Education (WISE) forges partnerships with organizations to strengthen our delivery of healthcare education and improve healthcare outcomes.

Aquifer

Aquifer distributes WISE-Surgery and WISE-OnCall courses on behalf of NYU Grossman School of Medicine to medical schools and physician assistant and nurse practitioner programs. Aquifer's own award-winning, virtual case–based courses and learning tools cover a range of disciplines and critical topics with a focus on developing clinical reasoning skills. Aquifer is a nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing medical and health professions education.

Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation

The Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation is the nation’s leading nonprofit provider of comprehensive inpatient and outpatient services for adults and youth with substance use disorders. The foundation created the CARE (Course on Addiction Recovery Education) course to enhance treatment and care for substance use disorders and recovery.

The Empathy Project

NYU Grossman School of Medicine’s Empathy Project, led by Jonathan LaPook, MD, brings together leaders in medicine, education, entertainment, and technology to focus on developing empathy as a skill for healthcare learners and workers. By creating engaging, high-quality short films, the Empathy Project aims to train healthcare providers to be more humane and help empower patients to be effective participants in their own care.