• William K Silverstein, Marlou Kerssens, Sanne Vaassen, Victoria Valencia, van MookWalther N K AWNKAMaastrict University Medical Centre, Maastricht, Netherlands., Cindy Y G Noben, Christopher Moriates, Brian M Wong, and Karen B Born.
• Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada. William.Silverstein@mail.utoronto.ca.
• J Gen Intern Med. 2024 Jul 31.

BackgroundSTARS (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.AimTo understand how partaking in STARS impacted participants' knowledge, skills, and influenced career plans, and aspirations.Setting And ParticipantsWe conducted qualitative semi-structured interviews with STARS participants (n = 27) from seven countries.Program DescriptionSTARS was designed to facilitate grassroots efforts that embed RS principles into medical education. STARS programs globally share common features: participation from several medical schools, centralized organizing hubs and leadership summits, and support from faculty mentors. Students take lessons learnt from centralized programming to implement changes that advance RS initiatives at their schools.Program EvaluationStudents finished STARS with better RS knowledge, enhanced change management skills (leadership, advocacy, collaboration), and a commitment to incorporate RS into future practice. Nearly all respondents hoped to pursue leadership activities in medicine, but most were unclear if they would focus efforts to advance RS.DiscussionSTARS participants gained knowledge as it relates to RS, change management skills, and catalyzed a commitment to incorporate high-value care into future practice. Medical education initiatives should be leveraged as a key strategic approach to build RS capacity.© 2024. The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Society of General Internal Medicine.

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