Clinical observation assignment (guided)

When my students go to the OR I arraign to have them meet a patient in registration. The student then follows the patient to the holding room, to the OR suite, recovery and then to the floor (or to the car).

You can do the same thing with the ED - the student could either start in triage or they could actually go with the rescue squad (if that is allowed).

Have them do a power-point or a tri-fold presentation board depicting their experience or maybe just a part they loved or hated.

They could determine a knowledge deficit that the patient had during the experience and make a short 3-5 minute video doing that teaching.

Do not limit them to "papers." I know that they do not want to write them and that you do not particularly want to grade them!