Which Student Characteristics Are Most Important in Determining Clinical Honors in Clerkships? A Teaching Ward...

Lauren Nicholas Herrera¹, Ryan Khodadadi, Erinn Schmit+8

• ¹L.N. Herrera is a second-year internal medicine resident, Department of Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas. The author was a fourth-year medical student, University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Medicine, Birmingham, Alabama, at the time of the study. R. Khodadadi is a second-year internal medicine resident, Department of Medicine, Mayo Clinic School of Graduate Medical Education, Rochester, Minnesota. The author was a fourth-year medical student, University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Medicine, Birmingham, Alabama, at the time of the study. E. Schmit is a fellow, Pediatric Hospital Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama. J. Willig is associate professor of medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama. A. Hoellein is associate dean for student affairs and associate professor of medicine, University of Kentucky College of Medicine, Lexington, Kentucky. C. Knudson is staff physician, Emory University Hospital Midtown, and assistant professor of medicine, Division of Hospital Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia. K. Law is program director, J. Willis Hurst Internal Medicine Residency Program, Emory University, and associate vice chair of education and associate professor of medicine, Division of Rheumatology, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia. N. Mingioni is staff physician, Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, and clinical associate professor of medicine, Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. K. Walsh is assistant professor of clinical internal medicine, Division of Hematology and Department of Medicine, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio. C. Estrada is staff physician, Birmingham Veterans Affairs Medical Center, and professor of medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama. W. Williams is clerkship codirector and assistant professor of medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, and staff physician, Birmingham Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Birmingham, Alabama.