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Academic Medicine, Vol. 96, No. 11S / November 2021 Supplement S203 inadequately prepared to participate in the clinical application of stewardship principles when they begin clinical clerkships. 1 While stewardship is an evolving practice, students should be reintroduced and exposed to stewardship principles frequently and identify practical skills to optimize stewardship. In addition, students should be familiar with resources, such as practice guidelines and local antibiograms, as optimal therapies and resistance patterns often change. 2 A timeout is a stepwise approach to evaluating the need for antibiotics and the optimal use of antibiotics. Timeouts are a common tool implemented by hospitals to monitor and manage the use of antibiotics. We propose that teaching clinical medical students to perform timeouts can lead to increased comfort with clinical decision making as it relates to antimicrobial stewardship.