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Understanding General Surgery Applicant Expectations and Perceptions in the Virtual Interview Process

OBJECTIVE: The COVID-19 pandemic has played a lasting role on residency recruitment through the virtual interview process. The objective of this study was to 1) examine general surgery applicants’ priorities and perceptions following pre-interview virtual open houses and 2) to assess applicant expec...

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Autores principales: Ho, Jessie W., Joung, Rachel H., Krueger, Mackenzie, Cid, Christina, Holmstrom, Amy L., Schlick, Cary Jo R., Tatebe, Leah C., Alam, Hasan B., Halverson, Amy L., Christopher, Derrick A.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Association of Program Directors in Surgery. Published by Elsevier Inc. 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9359908/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35953420
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jsurg.2022.07.024
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author Ho, Jessie W.
Joung, Rachel H.
Krueger, Mackenzie
Cid, Christina
Holmstrom, Amy L.
Schlick, Cary Jo R.
Tatebe, Leah C.
Alam, Hasan B.
Halverson, Amy L.
Christopher, Derrick A.
author_facet Ho, Jessie W.
Joung, Rachel H.
Krueger, Mackenzie
Cid, Christina
Holmstrom, Amy L.
Schlick, Cary Jo R.
Tatebe, Leah C.
Alam, Hasan B.
Halverson, Amy L.
Christopher, Derrick A.
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description OBJECTIVE: The COVID-19 pandemic has played a lasting role on residency recruitment through the virtual interview process. The objective of this study was to 1) examine general surgery applicants’ priorities and perceptions following pre-interview virtual open houses and 2) to assess applicant expectations and efficacy of the virtual interview day process. DESIGN/SETTING/PARTICIPANTS: This study utilized two voluntary and anonymous cross-sectional surveys administered via email to evaluate the virtual interview process of a general surgery residency program. The first was administered to registrants following completion of three open houses of various topics. The second was administered following each interview day. The post-open house survey had 78 respondents, two excluded for no open house attendance. The post-interview survey was completed by 44 applicants (62.9% response rate). RESULTS: Majority of respondents reported that attending virtual open houses made them want to apply to (90.9%) and improved their perception of the program (94.7%). Applicants who felt a sense of obligation to attend open houses (68.4%) were significantly more likely to feel that they contributed to the stress and time commitment of applications (81.8% vs 18.2%, p=0.028). Interview expectations were identified in recurrent themes: 1. Clear organization with breaks, 2. Interactive resident sessions, 3. Meetings with program leadership, 4. Additional information unavailable on other resources. The pre-interview social and interview day improved 90.2% of the applicants’ perceptions of the program. The interview significantly improved applicants’ ability to assess nearly all aspects of the program, notably resident camaraderie and culture (30.8% vs 97.4%, p=0.01) and strengths and weaknesses (30.8% vs 92.3%, p=0.04). CONCLUSIONS: While virtual open houses can improve applicants’ perceptions and desire to apply to a program, the associated stress and obligation should be considered. Virtual interviews should provide information unavailable using other resources and provide avenues for conveying the resident culture and camaraderie.
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spelling pubmed-93599082022-08-09 Understanding General Surgery Applicant Expectations and Perceptions in the Virtual Interview Process Ho, Jessie W. Joung, Rachel H. Krueger, Mackenzie Cid, Christina Holmstrom, Amy L. Schlick, Cary Jo R. Tatebe, Leah C. Alam, Hasan B. Halverson, Amy L. Christopher, Derrick A. J Surg Educ 2022 Apds Spring Meeting OBJECTIVE: The COVID-19 pandemic has played a lasting role on residency recruitment through the virtual interview process. The objective of this study was to 1) examine general surgery applicants’ priorities and perceptions following pre-interview virtual open houses and 2) to assess applicant expectations and efficacy of the virtual interview day process. DESIGN/SETTING/PARTICIPANTS: This study utilized two voluntary and anonymous cross-sectional surveys administered via email to evaluate the virtual interview process of a general surgery residency program. The first was administered to registrants following completion of three open houses of various topics. The second was administered following each interview day. The post-open house survey had 78 respondents, two excluded for no open house attendance. The post-interview survey was completed by 44 applicants (62.9% response rate). RESULTS: Majority of respondents reported that attending virtual open houses made them want to apply to (90.9%) and improved their perception of the program (94.7%). Applicants who felt a sense of obligation to attend open houses (68.4%) were significantly more likely to feel that they contributed to the stress and time commitment of applications (81.8% vs 18.2%, p=0.028). Interview expectations were identified in recurrent themes: 1. Clear organization with breaks, 2. Interactive resident sessions, 3. Meetings with program leadership, 4. Additional information unavailable on other resources. The pre-interview social and interview day improved 90.2% of the applicants’ perceptions of the program. The interview significantly improved applicants’ ability to assess nearly all aspects of the program, notably resident camaraderie and culture (30.8% vs 97.4%, p=0.01) and strengths and weaknesses (30.8% vs 92.3%, p=0.04). CONCLUSIONS: While virtual open houses can improve applicants’ perceptions and desire to apply to a program, the associated stress and obligation should be considered. Virtual interviews should provide information unavailable using other resources and provide avenues for conveying the resident culture and camaraderie. Association of Program Directors in Surgery. Published by Elsevier Inc. 2022 2022-08-09 /pmc/articles/PMC9359908/ /pubmed/35953420 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jsurg.2022.07.024 Text en © 2022 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.
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