Mayo Clinic, Division Colon and Rectal Surgery, Rochester, Minnesota.
Mayo Clinic, Division Colon and Rectal Surgery, Rochester, Minnesota.
J Surg Educ. 2021 Nov-Dec;78(6):e12-e18. doi: 10.1016/j.jsurg.2021.04.008. Epub 2021 May 9.
To assess the processes and outcomes of 2021 colon and rectal surgery match season: one of the first National Resident Matching Program (NRMP) match to conduct uniformly virtual interviews for all programs and candidates due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Since this if the first-year interviews were held entirely virtual for a (NRMP) match season, we sought to determine: (1) How did program directors (PDs) in this year's fellowship conduct their virtual interviews? (2) Were any of these conduct decisions associated with the PD satisfaction with the resulting match? (3) What is the PDs opinion of how interviews should occur next year if COVID-19 is not a factor?
The authors sent an anonymous survey to the PDs of all programs participating in the 2021 colon and rectal surgery residency match directly following match day 2020.
Forty-one colon and rectal residency PDs (70% response rate) responded to the survey (78% Male) representing a range of experience (M = 7.61, SD = 5.66, years as PD at current institution), and program type (77.5% Academic, 7.5% Independent Academic Medical Center, 15% Nonacademic).
While programs utilized several different platforms, conducted various forms of training for their faculty, and provided applicants with different types of information, interview day(s) across the specialty are reported to have proceeded smoothly. PDs as a whole were very satisfied with their match results this year (M = 4.65, SD = .66), and this satisfaction was not impacted by virtual interview decisions or processes. However, only 55% of PDs agree or strongly agree that next year's interviews should be virtual regardless of COVID-19, a judgement solely influenced by the opinion of other program faculty on virtual interviews, regardless of satisfaction with match or comfort with technology.
While PDs report high satisfaction with virtual interview processes and outcomes, there is less agreement that colon and rectal surgery residency interviews should move to a solely virtual platform.
评估 2021 年结肠和直肠外科手术匹配季的过程和结果：由于 COVID-19 大流行，这是全国住院医师匹配项目 (NRMP) 首次对所有项目和候选人进行统一虚拟面试的匹配季之一。由于这是 NRMP 匹配季中首次完全进行虚拟面试，我们试图确定：(1) 今年的研究员指导主任 (PD) 如何进行他们的虚拟面试？(2) 这些决策中的任何一个是否与 PD 对最终匹配的满意度有关？(3) 如果 COVID-19 不是一个因素，PD 对明年面试应该如何进行的看法？
作者在 2020 年匹配日之后，直接向参与 2021 年结肠和直肠外科住院医师匹配的所有项目的 PD 发送了一份匿名调查。
41 名结肠和直肠住院医师 PD（70%的回复率）回答了调查（78%为男性），代表了一系列经验（M=7.61，SD=5.66，在当前机构担任 PD 的年限）和项目类型（77.5%为学术，7.5%为独立学术医疗中心，15%为非学术）。
虽然各个项目使用了几种不同的平台，为他们的教师进行了各种形式的培训，并为申请人提供了不同类型的信息，但整个专业的面试日都顺利进行。PD 对今年的匹配结果非常满意（M=4.65，SD=.66），并且这种满意度不受虚拟面试决策或流程的影响。然而，只有 55%的 PD 同意或强烈同意，无论 COVID-19 如何，明年的面试都应该是虚拟的，这一判断仅仅受到其他项目教师对虚拟面试的看法的影响，而不考虑对匹配的满意度或对技术的舒适度。
尽管 PD 报告对虚拟面试流程和结果的满意度很高，但对于结肠和直肠外科住院医师面试是否应该完全转移到虚拟平台，意见并不一致。
