Khalafallah Youssef M, Markowitz Moses, Levine William N, LaPorte Dawn M, Aiyer Amiethab A
Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas.
Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Inova Fairfax Medical Campus, Fairfax, Virginia.
JB JS Open Access. 2022 Apr 21;7(2). doi: 10.2106/JBJS.OA.21.00145. eCollection 2022 Apr-Jun.
Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, medical education and residency application have faced unprecedented changes. This has forced residency directors to alter their selection criteria in the absence of away rotations and the implementation of nationwide virtual interviews.
The purpose of this study was to assess how residency directors have adapted their selection criteria in light of this unique application cycle and to look at the effect, and future, of the different changes.
A 16-question online survey was disseminated to 31 residency programs gathering data about new opportunities offered this cycle, changes to selection criteria, match outcomes, as well as the number of applicants to their program.
Twenty-nine respondents completed the survey (94% response rate). There was a significant rise in the number of applications received by programs this cycle (p < 0.05). Programs have unanimously altered their selection processes. The biggest changes in selection criteria were putting more weight into communication from mentors, emails from the applicants, home applicant status, and virtual information session attendance. Some programs used additional application requirements beyond Electronic Residency Application Service, which were often uncompleted, and cut the number of eligible applications by up to 46%. Among the new opportunities offered this cycle, virtual information sessions and social media platforms seem to be the most commonly offered and are anticipated to grow.
Orthopaedic surgery residency continues to become more competitive with a significant rise in the number of applications during the COVID-19 pandemic. Amid this increasingly demanding virtual application cycle, a holistic application review was more challenging. More weight was put that cycle into communication from faculty mentors, emails from the applicants, home applicant status, and virtual information session attendance. Supplementary applications and virtual informative opportunities are likely to last and change the future of the orthopaedic surgery residency application process.
在新冠疫情期间，医学教育和住院医师申请面临前所未有的变化。这迫使住院医师项目主任在没有外地轮转以及实施全国范围虚拟面试的情况下改变他们的选拔标准。
本研究的目的是评估住院医师项目主任如何根据这个独特的申请周期调整他们的选拔标准，并探讨不同变化的影响及未来走向。
向31个住院医师项目发放了一份包含16个问题的在线调查问卷，收集有关本周期提供的新机会、选拔标准的变化、匹配结果以及各项目申请人数量的数据。
29名受访者完成了调查（回复率94%）。本周期各项目收到的申请数量显著增加（p < 0.05）。各项目一致改变了他们的选拔流程。选拔标准的最大变化是更加重视导师的推荐信、申请人的电子邮件、本地申请人身份以及虚拟信息发布会的出席情况。一些项目使用了电子住院医师申请服务之外的额外申请要求，这些要求往往未完成，并且使符合条件的申请数量减少了多达46%。在本周期提供的新机会中，虚拟信息发布会和社交媒体平台似乎是最常提供的，并且预计会增加。
在新冠疫情期间，骨科住院医师申请竞争愈发激烈，申请数量显著增加。在这个要求日益提高的虚拟申请周期中，全面的申请审核更具挑战性。该周期更加重视教师导师的推荐信、申请人的电子邮件、本地申请人身份以及虚拟信息发布会的出席情况。补充申请和虚拟信息机会可能会持续存在，并改变骨科住院医师申请流程的未来。
