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Showcasing a General Surgery Residency Program During the COVID-19 Pandemic
OBJECTIVE: The virtual interview season has challenged general surgery residency programs to recruit applicants through the loss of visiting clerkships, tours, and time with residents. Webinars, increased informal resident and faculty sessions, and live-narrated video tours are potential solutions....
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Association of Program Directors in Surgery. Published by Elsevier Inc.
2021
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8571114/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34090839 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jsurg.2021.04.018 |
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author | Lund, Sarah MacArthur, Taleen Keune, Jonie Enger, Teresa Martinez-Jorge, Jorys McKenzie, Travis Nelson, Megan Olson, Angela Que, Florencia Stulak, John Rivera, Mariela |
author_facet | Lund, Sarah MacArthur, Taleen Keune, Jonie Enger, Teresa Martinez-Jorge, Jorys McKenzie, Travis Nelson, Megan Olson, Angela Que, Florencia Stulak, John Rivera, Mariela |
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description | OBJECTIVE: The virtual interview season has challenged general surgery residency programs to recruit applicants through the loss of visiting clerkships, tours, and time with residents. Webinars, increased informal resident and faculty sessions, and live-narrated video tours are potential solutions. This study aimed to assess the effectiveness of these elements in virtually showcasing a residency program during the virtual interview season. DESIGN/SETTING: Prospective applicants to one general surgery residency program (Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota) were invited to attend six webinars: Program Overview, Simulation Education, Diversity, Resident Life, Mingle with Residents, and Last-Minute Q&A. An anonymous survey was sent to all registered participants of the webinars. Interviewees participated in a preinterview social hour with resident and faculty and a live-narrated video tour of our facilities during their interview. A second anonymous survey was sent to all interviewees. PARTICIPANTS: Webinars – 33% of 159 unique registrants surveyed participated. Interviews – 46% of 109 interviewees surveyed participated. RESULTS: Average satisfaction with the webinars was 9.4/10. Overall, 98% of attendees felt that the webinars gave them a “feel” for the program. Attendees found the Last-Minute Q&A webinar and Program Overview to be most useful. For resident-led webinars, 100% of attendees felt that themed break-out rooms were effective. Average satisfaction with the interviews was 4.4/5. Interviewees rated access to faculty and residents highly (4.4/5 and 4.5/5, respectively). 98% of interviewees found the live-narrated video tour helpful. CONCLUSIONS: A webinar curriculum can be effective in virtual residency recruitment, as prospective applicants developed a good understanding of the resident program after participating. Further, live-narrated video tours and purposefully incorporating several avenues for informal conversations with residents and faculty can successfully address applicant concerns about virtual interviews. |
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spelling | pubmed-85711142021-12-02 Showcasing a General Surgery Residency Program During the COVID-19 Pandemic Lund, Sarah MacArthur, Taleen Keune, Jonie Enger, Teresa Martinez-Jorge, Jorys McKenzie, Travis Nelson, Megan Olson, Angela Que, Florencia Stulak, John Rivera, Mariela J Surg Educ 2021 Apds Spring Meeting OBJECTIVE: The virtual interview season has challenged general surgery residency programs to recruit applicants through the loss of visiting clerkships, tours, and time with residents. Webinars, increased informal resident and faculty sessions, and live-narrated video tours are potential solutions. This study aimed to assess the effectiveness of these elements in virtually showcasing a residency program during the virtual interview season. DESIGN/SETTING: Prospective applicants to one general surgery residency program (Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota) were invited to attend six webinars: Program Overview, Simulation Education, Diversity, Resident Life, Mingle with Residents, and Last-Minute Q&A. An anonymous survey was sent to all registered participants of the webinars. Interviewees participated in a preinterview social hour with resident and faculty and a live-narrated video tour of our facilities during their interview. A second anonymous survey was sent to all interviewees. PARTICIPANTS: Webinars – 33% of 159 unique registrants surveyed participated. Interviews – 46% of 109 interviewees surveyed participated. RESULTS: Average satisfaction with the webinars was 9.4/10. Overall, 98% of attendees felt that the webinars gave them a “feel” for the program. Attendees found the Last-Minute Q&A webinar and Program Overview to be most useful. For resident-led webinars, 100% of attendees felt that themed break-out rooms were effective. Average satisfaction with the interviews was 4.4/5. Interviewees rated access to faculty and residents highly (4.4/5 and 4.5/5, respectively). 98% of interviewees found the live-narrated video tour helpful. CONCLUSIONS: A webinar curriculum can be effective in virtual residency recruitment, as prospective applicants developed a good understanding of the resident program after participating. Further, live-narrated video tours and purposefully incorporating several avenues for informal conversations with residents and faculty can successfully address applicant concerns about virtual interviews. Association of Program Directors in Surgery. Published by Elsevier Inc. 2021 2021-05-06 /pmc/articles/PMC8571114/ /pubmed/34090839 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jsurg.2021.04.018 Text en © 2021 Association of Program Directors in Surgery. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active. |
spellingShingle | 2021 Apds Spring Meeting Lund, Sarah MacArthur, Taleen Keune, Jonie Enger, Teresa Martinez-Jorge, Jorys McKenzie, Travis Nelson, Megan Olson, Angela Que, Florencia Stulak, John Rivera, Mariela Showcasing a General Surgery Residency Program During the COVID-19 Pandemic |
title | Showcasing a General Surgery Residency Program During the COVID-19 Pandemic |
title_full | Showcasing a General Surgery Residency Program During the COVID-19 Pandemic |
title_fullStr | Showcasing a General Surgery Residency Program During the COVID-19 Pandemic |
title_full_unstemmed | Showcasing a General Surgery Residency Program During the COVID-19 Pandemic |
title_short | Showcasing a General Surgery Residency Program During the COVID-19 Pandemic |
title_sort | showcasing a general surgery residency program during the covid-19 pandemic |
topic | 2021 Apds Spring Meeting |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8571114/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34090839 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jsurg.2021.04.018 |
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