Background: Medical school is crucial in giving students both the knowledge and the professional identity required to be a doctor. While there are numerous formal options at our medical school for senior medical students to assist in the former, there are far fewer for the latter. Our group is investigating the possibilities of senior medical [...]

Background: Hospital Medicine is a nuanced field that requires expertise in patient care and non-clinical health system topics. While several residency programs have now developed dedicated hospital medicine electives, there still exists a gap in education for medical students as they are only exposed to inpatient care. Additionally, many fourth-year medical students (M4s) interested in [...]

Background: At Thomas Jefferson University Hospital (TJUH) in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 4th year medical students can complete an elective in Perioperative and Consultative Medicine. The Farber Hospitalist Division is a unique Hospital Medicine Division in the Department of Neurosurgery that runs the medicine consult service and specializes in neurosurgical co-management at both TJUH Main Campus and [...]