STARS 2025 Cohort
*Faculty – Enrollment for your school was due by Dec. 1 st , 2024
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 31 st , 2025 from 5:30pm – 7:30pm EST
- SATURDAY, February 1 st , 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