Background: An estimated one-third of national healthcare spending is waste, with the largest contribution stemming from unnecessary use of services. Published efforts to enhance cost consciousness have largely focused on residents and practicing physicians. Few curricula have been designed to educate and engage medical students in the delivery of high value care (HVC) in the [...]

Background: The majority of medical students indicate that the health policy and health systems education they receive is insufficient, even though they will face barriers to practicing care at the systems level. In addition, there is little uniformity or evaluation of pedagogical approaches to health policy in undergraduate medical education, especially in connecting health policy [...]

Background: Career exploration and professional identity formation (PIF) are critical in undergraduate medical education (UME). With its focus on management of acutely ill, hospitalized patients, Hospital Medicine (HM) is an opportune environment for pre-clinical students to gain valuable, diverse clinical experiences. While widely utilized in UME, shadowing on HM direct-care services (HM-DCS) (i.e., those without [...]