Educational Policy Development as a Leadership Experience: Inclusive Institutional Change.

Medical students have a unique opportunity to advocate for educational policies that promote best practices in undergraduate medical education. At the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, students play a crucial role in the development of medical education policies. This article describes two innovative, inclusive, and effective approaches to increase student engagement: (1) restructuring Medical Education Subcommittees to diversify student perspectives and (2) including students in a values-based design thinking approach to the development of new academic advancement and promotion and conduct policies.

Crowd-sourced hospital ratings are correlated with patient satisfaction but not surgical safety.

Background: Hospital reviews posted online by patients are unsolicited and less structured than Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems surveys. The differences between online review platforms and their degrees of correlation with validated satisfaction and safety measures are unknown.

Methods: We identified 515 large acute care teaching hospitals in the United States.