How Medical Students Benefit from Participating in a Longitudinal Resource Stewardship Medical Education Program (STARS): An International Descriptive Evaluation.

ABSTRACT:

Background

STARS (Students and Trainees Advocating for Resource Stewardship) is a medical student leadership program that promotes integration of resource stewardship (RS) into medical education in at least seven countries. Little is known about how participation affects student leaders.

Aim

To understand how partaking in STARS impacted participants' knowledge, skills, and influenced career plans, and aspirations.

Setting and participants

We conducted qualitative semi-structured interviews with STARS participants (n = 27) from seven countries.

Program description

STARS was designed to facilitate grassroots efforts that embed RS principles into medical education. STARS programs globally share common features: participation from several medical schools, centraliz

SUBMITTER: Silverstein WK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11780017 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature