STARS 2025

The STARS 2025 Cohort Will Launch in January 2025!

The STARS Program Provides:

  • Education about high-value care and leadership concepts
  • Mentorship for projects and scholarship
  • Networking with a national community of health professional students and faculty
  • Opportunities to stand-out amongst peers and colleagues

School Expectations

  • Each school must select up to 4 STARS Ambassadors (MS1/MS2/interprofessional preferred) to serve as contacts for the STARS program – participating in the Leadership Summit and learning collaborative calls
  • Each school must have at least 1 local faculty mentor who will directly support the STARS Ambassadors

Suggested STARS Contribution

  • $2,000 per school
  • $5,000 to be featured as a “STARS Sponsor School” –school logo on STARS materials

*Support STARS with a Tax-Deductible Contribution!

STARS 2025 Leadership Summits*

  • FRIDAY, January 31st, 2025 from 5:30pm – 7:30pm EST
  • SATURDAY, February 1st, 2025 from 1:00pm – 5:00pm EST

STARS 2025 Learning Collaboratives*

Students and faculty have the opportunity to participate in learning collaborative meetings to build community, share updates and stories of success and/or work through challenges they face with HVC

  • March 2025
  • May 2025
  • September 2025
  • November 2025

*All leadership summits and learning collaboratives delivered via Zoom

Recent Advancements to the STARS Program

  • Created the Clerkship Taskforce and held the first virtual conference “Applied High-Value Care Concepts for Clinical Students”
  • Awarded STARS Excellence Awards to students and faculty
  • Influenced the HVPA National Conference – hosted special “STARS Track” and over 40 STARS-related abstracts submitted
  • Launched STARS Incubators to support development of scholarly products
  • Supported students with national case competition, multiple publications, presentations, podcasts, and applications for external opportunities
  • Added 5 toolkits, free interactive “Value-Based Health Care Learning Modules”, and other resources to our STARS website