Medical Student Learning Experiences on Hospital Medicine Teams

The increasing class size of medical schools has required educational leaders to develop innovative ways to balance the number of learners on traditional ward team, including clerkship directors increasingly placing medical students on the direct care hospital medicine service. There is, however, limited information available on successfully integrating medical students into teams run by hospitalists alone or hospitalist-advanced practice provider dyads. Participants in our workshop will brainstorm barriers and enablers to deploying medical students on direct care hospital medicine teams. We will then share key insights on perspectives of medical students and hospitalists on the quality of the educational experience on direct care teams and "best practices" to enhance the overall educational experience from three different institutions with robust and long-standing medical student participation on hospital medicine teams . Medical student roles and responsibilities, assessment strategies, key curricular elements and competencies, and tips on efficient integration of medical students on busy hospital medicine services will be shared. Finally, workshop participants will create their own framework for introducing medical students on direct care teams. Participants with existing medical student rotations on hospital medicine teams will walk away with tips to improve the experience of both their medical students and hospitalist providers on these teams. Participants will have time to consider and brainstorm with colleagues about methods for developing optimal experiences for students and hospitalists in their home institutions.