Purpose
A cross-institutional collaboration between instructors and students has led to the creation of the first-ever Open Education Resource (OER) e-text and accompanying instructor and student resources for Human Anatomy, Physiology, Pathology, and Pathophysiology. Media-rich design strategies have been utilized to facilitate student engagement, ease of use, and content mastery. These resources also support student well-being by prioritizing flexibility, clarity, affordability, and usability. Unique features of this OER are the inclusion of patient narratives highlighting challenges in health care, scientist spotlights that inspire, celebrate, and encourage diversity in STEM, a language inclusivity guide to foster respectful patient care as well as interactive imagery and Q&A sets with auto-feedback to enhance the overall student learning experience.

Methods
This OER is being designed for adaptability, and contains a wide selection of lesson topics, allowing instructors across various healthcare professional courses to customize and meet the learning outcomes of multiple healthcare programs. The completed sections have been provided to students in human anatomy, physiology, and pathophysiology courses this term (September-December 2024). Currently, students are being surveyed using both Likert-scale and open-ended questions to assess their satisfaction with each component of the OER.

Results
Student feedback will be used to make improvements and will be shared in this presentation along with OER access links. Additionally, class grades will be compared to those from the previous year to evaluate whether transitioning from a publisher-produced textbook to OER has had any impact.

Conclusion
The creation of free, accessible, and learner-focused digital course resources has been guided by universal design for learning (UDL) principles and pedagogical best practices. This presentation will highlight key lessons learned by the creators and share insights from student feedback.