Voluntary assignments during the pediatric clerkship to enhance the clinical experiences of medical students in the United States

The objective of this study was to evaluate the feasibility of providing a voluntary assignment list to third-year medical students in their pediatric clerkship. This is a retrospective single-center cross-sectional analysis of voluntary assignment completion during the 2019–2020 academic year. In total, 132 subjects who were part of our school’s traditional curriculum and rotated at the pediatric clerkship’s primary site and at our off-campus affiliate sites were included in this study. Subjects who were part of our integrated longitudinal curriculum were excluded.