Love your medical students
When I first started as residency coordinator, I couldn’t figure out what the deal was with “all these short coat folks.” Who were they and why were they at conference eating my lunches?
My perspective, three years later, makes me realize that the short coats are just the long coats of the future. Not only does their clerkship here provide them with valuable education, it is also a marketing opportunity for us!
Instead of working around them, we’ve taken a different approach. Our chiefs run their student morning report, and we invite them to all of our lunches, conferences, and other relevant educational experiences intentionally. We’ve actually brought the clerkship coordinator under our roof as part of our staff. We try to do more hands-on things like posting each group’s photos in advance for the entire ward team to see, and providing them with a special survival guide to our service so that they know not only that we love them, but that we’d love them to stay here.
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Diane Farineau
Diane W. Farineau is the director of administration for graduate medical educational and faculty affairs at the University of Virginia Health System in the Department of Medicine.
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