St Amour Bruce Alfred
St. Mary Mercy Center, Department of Emergency Medicine, Livonia, Michigan.
West J Emerg Med. 2014 Mar;15(2):184-7. doi: 10.5811/westjem.2013.10.18164.
Our objective is to evaluate the factors important to osteopathic applicants when selecting an American College of Osteopathic Emergency Physicians accredited emergency medicine (EM) residency and to compare these results with previous allopathic EM studies.
We gave osteopathic applicants a survey during interview season to be filled out anonymously at the end of their interview day. This survey included 18 factors which the applicants were asked to rank between 1 ("not very important") to 4 ("very important"). We then compared results to prior results of the same survey.
Forty applicants (67%) out of 60 completed the survey. From these individuals, we noticed differences in the top factors listed by the applicants when compared to allopathic interviewees, the most notable being the unimportance of geographic location of the program to osteopathic applicants as manifested by osteopathic student average score of 2.8 (standard deviation 0.75) verses allopathic student average of 3.6 (standard deviation 0.06).
Of the top 5 factors listed by the applicants, only 1 (AOA-approved residency) is an objective factor that the program has a role in controlling. The remainder are mainly subjective factors based on applicant's perceptions of the program.
我们的目标是评估整骨疗法申请人在选择美国整骨疗法急诊医师学会认可的急诊医学（EM）住院医师培训项目时认为重要的因素，并将这些结果与之前针对传统西医急诊医学的研究结果进行比较。
在面试季期间，我们让整骨疗法申请人填写一份调查问卷，要求他们在面试当天结束时匿名填写。该调查问卷包含18个因素，申请人需对这些因素从1（“不太重要”）到4（“非常重要”）进行排序。然后，我们将结果与同一调查问卷之前的结果进行比较。
60名申请人中有40名（67%）完成了调查。从这些受访者中，我们注意到与传统西医面试者相比，申请人列出的首要因素存在差异，最显著的是项目地理位置对整骨疗法申请人不重要，整骨疗法学生的平均得分是2.8（标准差0.75），而传统西医学生的平均得分是3.6（标准差0.06）。
在申请人列出的前5个因素中，只有1个（经美国骨科协会批准的住院医师培训项目）是项目能够控制的客观因素。其余主要是基于申请人对项目认知的主观因素。
