Department of Emergency Medicine, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, OR, USA.
Acad Emerg Med. 2009 Dec;16 Suppl 2:S67-70. doi: 10.1111/j.1553-2712.2009.00602.x.
Emergency medicine (EM) residency programs spend significant time and money offering an interview day experience for their applicants. The day may include a range of activities, although which are most important from the applicants' point of view are not known.
An anonymous web-based survey was sent to all applicants to an EM residency program from the 2006/07 cycle. The study assessed factors about the interview day that were most helpful to applicants in assessing goodness of fit and preparing their rank list of programs.
When considering whether a program was a good fit for them, the respondents chose (from most to least important) how happy the residents seem, faculty-resident relationships, how well the residents work together, resident and faculty values match my own, the residents spend time together outside of the residency, and the residents share my outside interests. Applicants most value assessing program "personality," informal off-campus gatherings with residents, and interviewing with the program director as ways to decide where a program will reside on their rank list. Touring off-campus emergency departments and off-service facilities received the lowest rating averages.
Residency programs have the opportunity to control two of the three most important ways in which applicants use the interview day to assess programs by offering off-campus gatherings with residents and ensuring that every candidate interviews with the program director. Residency programs may use this knowledge to optimize interview day resources.
急诊医学（EM）住院医师培训计划花费大量时间和金钱为申请人提供面试日体验。这一天可能包括各种活动，但从申请人的角度来看，哪些活动最重要尚不清楚。
一项针对 2006/07 周期 EM 住院医师项目所有申请人的匿名网络调查。该研究评估了面试日的各个因素，这些因素对申请人评估适合度和准备他们的项目排名列表最有帮助。
在考虑一个项目是否适合他们时，受访者选择（从最重要到最不重要）住院医师看起来有多快乐、医患关系、住院医师之间的合作程度、住院医师和教职员工的价值观与自己的价值观相匹配、住院医师在住院医师之外的时间一起度过，以及住院医师分享自己的业余爱好。申请人最看重评估项目“个性”、与住院医师的非正式校外聚会，以及与项目主管面试，以此来决定项目在他们的排名列表中的位置。参观校外急诊部门和其他服务科室获得的评分最低。
住院医师培训计划有机会通过提供与住院医师的校外聚会并确保每个候选人都与项目主管面试来控制申请人利用面试日评估项目的三种最重要方式中的两种。住院医师培训计划可以利用这些知识来优化面试日资源。
