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Advocating for a New Residency Application Process: A Student Perspective
OBJECTIVE: The COVID-19 pandemic provided an opportunity for surgical residency programs to rethink their methods of evaluating and recruiting candidates. However, the past year has not been seamless, with a soaring number of applications, reports of programs and applicants having difficulty evaluat...
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Published by Elsevier Inc. on behalf of Association of Program Directors in Surgery.
2022
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8714002/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34446382 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jsurg.2021.07.018 |
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author | Badiee, Ryan K. Hernandez, Sophia Valdez, Jessica J. NnamaniSilva, Ogonna N. Campbell, Andre R. Alseidi, Adnan A. |
author_facet | Badiee, Ryan K. Hernandez, Sophia Valdez, Jessica J. NnamaniSilva, Ogonna N. Campbell, Andre R. Alseidi, Adnan A. |
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description | OBJECTIVE: The COVID-19 pandemic provided an opportunity for surgical residency programs to rethink their methods of evaluating and recruiting candidates. However, the past year has not been seamless, with a soaring number of applications, reports of programs and applicants having difficulty evaluating each other, and an increasingly uneven distribution of interviews among applicants. Consequently, many have called for national changes to the residency application process to address these longstanding concerns. RESULTS: Here, we review the evolving literature and advocate for the permanent adoption of visiting rotations, virtual interviews with a universal release date and data-driven attendance limits, and opportunities for in-person applicant visits. CONCLUSIONS: We believe these changes leverage the strengths of each format, allow for satisfactory bidirectional evaluation, and promote principles of justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion. |
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spelling | pubmed-87140022021-12-29 Advocating for a New Residency Application Process: A Student Perspective Badiee, Ryan K. Hernandez, Sophia Valdez, Jessica J. NnamaniSilva, Ogonna N. Campbell, Andre R. Alseidi, Adnan A. J Surg Educ Perspectives OBJECTIVE: The COVID-19 pandemic provided an opportunity for surgical residency programs to rethink their methods of evaluating and recruiting candidates. However, the past year has not been seamless, with a soaring number of applications, reports of programs and applicants having difficulty evaluating each other, and an increasingly uneven distribution of interviews among applicants. Consequently, many have called for national changes to the residency application process to address these longstanding concerns. RESULTS: Here, we review the evolving literature and advocate for the permanent adoption of visiting rotations, virtual interviews with a universal release date and data-driven attendance limits, and opportunities for in-person applicant visits. CONCLUSIONS: We believe these changes leverage the strengths of each format, allow for satisfactory bidirectional evaluation, and promote principles of justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion. Published by Elsevier Inc. on behalf of Association of Program Directors in Surgery. 2022 2021-08-24 /pmc/articles/PMC8714002/ /pubmed/34446382 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jsurg.2021.07.018 Text en © 2021 Published by Elsevier Inc. on behalf of Association of Program Directors in Surgery. 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 | Perspectives Badiee, Ryan K. Hernandez, Sophia Valdez, Jessica J. NnamaniSilva, Ogonna N. Campbell, Andre R. Alseidi, Adnan A. Advocating for a New Residency Application Process: A Student Perspective |
title | Advocating for a New Residency Application Process: A Student Perspective |
title_full | Advocating for a New Residency Application Process: A Student Perspective |
title_fullStr | Advocating for a New Residency Application Process: A Student Perspective |
title_full_unstemmed | Advocating for a New Residency Application Process: A Student Perspective |
title_short | Advocating for a New Residency Application Process: A Student Perspective |
title_sort | advocating for a new residency application process: a student perspective |
topic | Perspectives |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8714002/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34446382 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jsurg.2021.07.018 |
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