2025 Southern GEA/GSA/OSR Conference

Experiences during medical school core clerkships have been a driving force regarding career aspirations and influencing specialty selection process (1). To help enhance the learning experience during clerkships, medical schools have created unique ways to ensure personalization, autonym, and ownership of their schedules. Although the order of rotations has shown not to impact a student’s learning abilities, students have mentioned that seeing a shelf exam during their first clerkship provides less stress on the remaining exams (2). Additionally, students mentioned feeling better about their clerkship rotations when their “most interested” specialty occurred in the middle and their “least interested” occurred at the beginning of their schedule (3).