Department of Radiology, NYU Langone Health, 660 First Avenue, 3(rd) Floor, New York, NY 10016.
Department of Radiology, NYU Langone Health, 660 First Avenue, 3(rd) Floor, New York, NY 10016.
Acad Radiol. 2022 Jun;29(6):935-942. doi: 10.1016/j.acra.2021.05.024. Epub 2021 Jul 1.
The Covid-19 pandemic ushered a sudden need for residency programs to develop innovative socially distant and remote approaches to effectively promote their program. Here we describe our experience using the social virtual reality (VR) platform Mozilla Hubs for the pre-interview social during the 2020-2021 radiology residency virtual recruitment season, provide results of a survey sent to assess applicants' attitudes towards the VR pre-interview social, and outline additional use-cases for the emerging technology.
A VR Meeting Hall dedicated to the pre-interview social was designed in Mozilla Hubs. To assess applicants' impressions of the Mozilla Hubs pre-interview social, applicants were sent an optional web-based survey. Survey respondents were asked to respond to a series of eleven statements using a five-point Likert scale of perceived agreement: Strongly Agree, Agree, Neutral, Disagree, Strongly Disagree. Statements were designed to gauge applicants' attitudes towards the Mozilla Hubs pre-interview social and its usefulness in helping them learn about the residency program, particularly in comparison with pre-interview socials held on conventional video conferencing software (CVCS).
Of the 120 residency applicants invited to the Mozilla Hubs pre-interview social, 111 (93%) attended. Of these, 68 (61%) participated in the anonymous survey. Most applicants reported a better overall experience with Mozilla Hubs compared to CVCS (47/68, 69%), with 10% (7/68) reporting a worse overall experience, and 21% (14/68) neutral. Most applicants reported the Mozilla Hubs pre-interview social allowed them to better assess residency culture than did pre-interview socials using CVCS (41/68, 60%). Seventy-two percent of applicants reported that the Mozilla Hubs pre-interview social positively impacted their decision to strongly consider the residency program (49/68).
Radiology residency applicants overall preferred a pre-interview social hosted on a social VR platform, Mozilla Hubs, compared to those hosted on CVCS. Applicants reported the use of a social VR platform reflected positively on the residency and positively impacted their decision to strongly consider the program.
Covid-19 大流行突然需要住院医师培训计划制定创新的社交隔离和远程方法，以有效推广其计划。在这里，我们描述了我们在 2020-2021 年放射科住院医师虚拟招聘季节中使用 Mozilla Hubs 社交虚拟现实 (VR) 平台进行面试前社交的经验，提供了发送给评估申请人对 VR 面试前社交态度的调查结果，并概述了新兴技术的其他用途。
在 Mozilla Hubs 中设计了一个专门用于面试前社交的 VR 会议室。为了评估申请人对 Mozilla Hubs 面试前社交的印象，向申请人发送了一份可选的基于网络的调查。调查受访者被要求使用五点李克特量表对一系列十一项陈述做出回应：强烈同意、同意、中立、不同意、强烈不同意。这些陈述旨在衡量申请人对 Mozilla Hubs 面试前社交的态度以及它在帮助他们了解住院医师计划方面的有用性，特别是与在传统视频会议软件 (CVCS) 上举行的面试前社交相比。
在受邀参加 Mozilla Hubs 面试前社交的 120 名住院医师申请人中，有 111 人（93%）参加。其中，68 人（61%）参加了匿名调查。大多数申请人报告说，与 CVCS 相比，他们在 Mozilla Hubs 上的整体体验更好（47/68，69%），有 10%（7/68）的人报告说整体体验更差，21%（14/68）的人感觉中立。大多数申请人报告说，与使用 CVCS 进行的面试前社交相比，Mozilla Hubs 面试前社交使他们能够更好地评估住院医师文化（41/68，60%）。72%的申请人报告说，Mozilla Hubs 面试前社交对他们强烈考虑住院医师计划的决定产生了积极影响（49/68）。
与在 CVCS 上主持的面试前社交相比，放射科住院医师申请人总体上更喜欢在社交 VR 平台 Mozilla Hubs 上进行面试前社交。申请人报告说，使用社交 VR 平台反映了住院医师的积极影响，并对他们强烈考虑该计划的决定产生了积极影响。
