Key initiatives include a first-in class volunteer patient program that partners with real patients to conduct clinical skills teaching and assessment, an annual Conference in Bedside Medicine that attracts thought leaders from across the world, a Bedside Scholars Program that provides small grants to junior faculty nationwide, an AI-bedside tools development pipeline that has already created an app that teaches physical exam skills, a Point-of-Care Ultrasound (POCUS) faculty training program, the nationally recognized ALIGN communication training program, and the Bedside Excellence Development Series (BEDS). Candidates' areas of interest may include, but are not limited to, clinical skills assessment, linking electronic health record (EHR) data to real-world clinical behavior and outcomes, analysis of clinical behavior using direct observation, real-time location system (RTLS) tracking of movement, and analysis of EHR data, approaches to designing interventions with an eye towards implementation, hybrid effectiveness-implementation studies, mixed methods contextual inquiry, and evaluating real-world implementations using a suite of approaches including observational research and quasi-experimental designs.