Reshma Gupta, MD talks with Jed Gonzalo, MD, assistant professor at Penn State University College of Medicine about a value-added medical education program he developed in which first-year medical students are embedded in health care systems and serve as patient navigators with goals of:
1) actively participating in medicine instead of observing;
2) gaining experience as part of an interprofessional health care team within in a community of practice; and
3) interacting with patients.