Duty Hours on Surgery Clerkship: From Compliance Nightmare to Leadership and Professional Development Opportunity.

Objective: To evaluate the impact of an innovative leadership development initiative in the core surgery clerkship that addressed duty hours compliance and time-off requests.

Design: A combination of deductive and inductive analysis of medical student reflections written after rotating on Acute Care Surgery over 2 academic years (2019-2020 and 2020-2021) was performed. Reflections were part of criteria to receive honors and a prompt was given to discuss their experience in creating their own call schedules.