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Identifying inaccuracies on emergency medicine residency applications

BACKGROUND: Previous trials have showed a 10–30% rate of inaccuracies on applications to individual residency programs. No studies have attempted to corroborate this on a national level. Attempts by residency programs to diminish the frequency of inaccuracies on applications have not been reported....

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Autores principales: Katz, Eric D, Shockley, Lee, Kass, Lawrence, Howes, David, Tupesis, Janis P, Weaver, Christopher, Sayan, Osman R, Hogan, Victoria, Begue, Jason, Vrocher, Diamond, Frazer, Jackie, Evans, Timothy, Hern, Gene, Riviello, Ralph, Rivera, Antonio, Kinoshita, Keith, Ferguson, Edward
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Publicado: BioMed Central 2005
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1201142/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16105178
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1472-6920-5-30
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author Katz, Eric D
Shockley, Lee
Kass, Lawrence
Howes, David
Tupesis, Janis P
Weaver, Christopher
Sayan, Osman R
Hogan, Victoria
Begue, Jason
Vrocher, Diamond
Frazer, Jackie
Evans, Timothy
Hern, Gene
Riviello, Ralph
Rivera, Antonio
Kinoshita, Keith
Ferguson, Edward
author_facet Katz, Eric D
Shockley, Lee
Kass, Lawrence
Howes, David
Tupesis, Janis P
Weaver, Christopher
Sayan, Osman R
Hogan, Victoria
Begue, Jason
Vrocher, Diamond
Frazer, Jackie
Evans, Timothy
Hern, Gene
Riviello, Ralph
Rivera, Antonio
Kinoshita, Keith
Ferguson, Edward
author_sort Katz, Eric D
collection PubMed
description BACKGROUND: Previous trials have showed a 10–30% rate of inaccuracies on applications to individual residency programs. No studies have attempted to corroborate this on a national level. Attempts by residency programs to diminish the frequency of inaccuracies on applications have not been reported. We seek to clarify the national incidence of inaccuracies on applications to emergency medicine residency programs. METHODS: This is a multi-center, single-blinded, randomized, cohort study of all applicants from LCME accredited schools to involved EM residency programs. Applications were randomly selected to investigate claims of AOA election, advanced degrees and publications. Errors were reported to applicants' deans and the NRMP. RESULTS: Nine residencies reviewed 493 applications (28.6% of all applicants who applied to any EM program). 56 applications (11.4%, 95%CI 8.6–14.2%) contained at least one error. Excluding "benign" errors, 9.8% (95% CI 7.2–12.4%), contained at least one error. 41% (95% CI 35.0–47.0%) of all publications contained an error. All AOA membership claims were verified, but 13.7% (95%CI 4.4–23.1%) of claimed advanced degrees were inaccurate. Inter-rater reliability of evaluations was good. Investigators were reluctant to notify applicants' dean's offices and the NRMP. CONCLUSION: This is the largest study to date of accuracy on application for residency and the first such multi-centered trial. High rates of incorrect data were found on applications. This data will serve as a baseline for future years of the project, with emphasis on reporting inaccuracies and warning applicants of the project's goals.
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spelling pubmed-12011422005-09-10 Identifying inaccuracies on emergency medicine residency applications Katz, Eric D Shockley, Lee Kass, Lawrence Howes, David Tupesis, Janis P Weaver, Christopher Sayan, Osman R Hogan, Victoria Begue, Jason Vrocher, Diamond Frazer, Jackie Evans, Timothy Hern, Gene Riviello, Ralph Rivera, Antonio Kinoshita, Keith Ferguson, Edward BMC Med Educ Research Article BACKGROUND: Previous trials have showed a 10–30% rate of inaccuracies on applications to individual residency programs. No studies have attempted to corroborate this on a national level. Attempts by residency programs to diminish the frequency of inaccuracies on applications have not been reported. We seek to clarify the national incidence of inaccuracies on applications to emergency medicine residency programs. METHODS: This is a multi-center, single-blinded, randomized, cohort study of all applicants from LCME accredited schools to involved EM residency programs. Applications were randomly selected to investigate claims of AOA election, advanced degrees and publications. Errors were reported to applicants' deans and the NRMP. RESULTS: Nine residencies reviewed 493 applications (28.6% of all applicants who applied to any EM program). 56 applications (11.4%, 95%CI 8.6–14.2%) contained at least one error. Excluding "benign" errors, 9.8% (95% CI 7.2–12.4%), contained at least one error. 41% (95% CI 35.0–47.0%) of all publications contained an error. All AOA membership claims were verified, but 13.7% (95%CI 4.4–23.1%) of claimed advanced degrees were inaccurate. Inter-rater reliability of evaluations was good. Investigators were reluctant to notify applicants' dean's offices and the NRMP. CONCLUSION: This is the largest study to date of accuracy on application for residency and the first such multi-centered trial. High rates of incorrect data were found on applications. This data will serve as a baseline for future years of the project, with emphasis on reporting inaccuracies and warning applicants of the project's goals. BioMed Central 2005-08-16 /pmc/articles/PMC1201142/ /pubmed/16105178 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1472-6920-5-30 Text en Copyright © 2005 Katz et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License ( (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0) ), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Shockley, Lee
Kass, Lawrence
Howes, David
Tupesis, Janis P
Weaver, Christopher
Sayan, Osman R
Hogan, Victoria
Begue, Jason
Vrocher, Diamond
Frazer, Jackie
Evans, Timothy
Hern, Gene
Riviello, Ralph
Rivera, Antonio
Kinoshita, Keith
Ferguson, Edward
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title_short Identifying inaccuracies on emergency medicine residency applications
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1201142/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16105178
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1472-6920-5-30
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