This year's Clerkship Directors in Internal Medicine meeting was a great success, because of the quality of abstracts (22) and workshops (19). Of the 22 abstract submissions, 8 have been selected by the planning committee for publication in this issue of Teaching and Learning in Medicine, because they addressed a broad range of topics that would appeal to all clerkship directors.In the first report of its kind, Brownfield et al. describe preliminary findings of implementing a standard, criterion-based evaluation framework (Reporter-Interpreter-Manager-Educator) across 4 required, third-year clerkships at 1 institution. Kuzma et al. describe the beneficial effect of auscultatory training for cardiac murmurs in a randomized trial among 3rd-year medical students. Torre et al. implemented a personal digital assistant (PDA) based mini-Clinical Evaluation Exercise for recording the direct observation of student's clinical skills during inpatient or ambulatory internal medicine. Sousa describes a pilot project of an electronic medical record teaching tool that required fourth-year medical students to manage a panel of standardized patient cases of diabetes mellitus Type 2, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and total hyperopia.Two abstracts addressed the effect on education of residency work-hour regulations and attending productivity pressures. Nixon et al. demonstrated that residents increased the amount of time they taught students each week during the clerkship, with no loss in teaching quality or value. Hoellein et al. recorded the activities of inpatient internal medicine teaching rounds for 3 months.Finally, 2 related studies examined issues related to quality of life, burnout, and personal well-being among medical students. Dyrbye et al. found that minority students had slightly lower mental quality-of-life scores, a lower sense of personal accomplishment, and less social support than nonminority students. Thomas et al. found that among 3rd- and 4th-year medical students, increasing levels of depersonalization were associated with a lower likelihood of choosing a primary care-based specialty.