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The course, the Inter-clerkship Intensive (ICI), is a pair of 3-day long blocks of time set aside during the 12-month clinical phase of the medical school curriculum at our institution. These blocks occur after the first quarter and prior to the last quarter of the clinical year. Participation is mandatory, and the same students participate in both parts of the course. A series of six slides were developed to integrate into the closing workshop of the second section of the course. The slides prompted students to give more specific and actionable feedback, noting that comments like “good workshop” were less helpful than comments that specifically reported what was “good” or how courses could be changed to be improved. Examples of unprofessional and abusive feedback were also shown as something to be avoided. Finally, the intervention focused on how the feedback was anonymous and gave specific examples of how the course director used prior, actionable feedback to make changes in the course to improve quality.