The role of the clerkship director -- Day-to-day management of a clerkship -- Vital roles the clerkship administrator plays in medical student education -- Directing a clerkship over geographically separate sites -- Medical student wellness in the clerkship year -- The clerkship orientation -- Creating a clerkship curriculum -- Integrating foundational sciences in a clerkship curriculum -- Instructional methods and strategies -- Clinical reasoning -- Technology and the clerkship director -- Simulation in medical education -- Remediation for struggling clerkship learners -- Nurturing medical professionalism -- Developing ethical physicians -- Interprofessional education -- Asssessment and grading of medical students -- Evalulation of clerkship teachers -- Evaluating the clerkship -- The clerkship director's practical guide to faculty -- Developing residents as teachers -- Career development for clinician educators -- Education scholarship: a primer for clinical educators -- The current state of pre-clerkship clinical skills courses in the U.S. -- Advising and mentoring medical students -- Longitudinal medical student education -- Continuum of learning: teaching lifelong learning skills -- The clerkship director and the accreditation process -- Basic legal issues and considerations for clerkship directors -- The fourth-year subinternship/acting internship -- Health systems science for clerkship directors -- Using quality improvement concepts to improve educational curricula.