Eastern Virginia Medical School, Norfolk, VA.
Department of Family and Preventive Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA.
Fam Med. 2022 Nov;54(10):798-803. doi: 10.22454/FamMed.2022.517173.
The COVID-19 pandemic led to the institution of virtual interviewing for nearly all family medicine residency programs in 2020 and 2021. This paradigm shift challenged the perspectives of family medicine program directors across the United States, in part because of the financial impact on the operations of many residency programs. We sought to investigate program directors' opinions on the 2020-2021 interview season, as well whether future interview season planning would be influenced by the financial outcomes of this season.
We conducted a cross-sectional survey, as part of the fall 2021 CERA Program Director omnibus online survey. Family medicine program directors were invited by email to participate. We conducted multivariate logistic regression of the likelihood of supporting a fully-virtual interviewing model.
The module survey response rate was 41.7% (263/631); 91.3% of programs reported conducting a fully-virtual 2020-2021 interview season. Program directors who reported that the cost savings recouped from virtual versus in-person interviewing could be used for other residency operating costs (32.4%) were almost four times more likely to support moving to a fully-virtual interviewing model (odds ratio: 3.94, confidence interval: 1.69-9.18). When compared to a residency program's benefit from meeting and assessing applicants in person, applicants benefitting from less financial burden during a fully-virtual interview season was not seen by responding program directors as a significant reason to remain virtual.
While family medicine residency program directors who recouped interview expenses during fully-virtual recruiting seasons are more likely to support ongoing, fully-virtual models, financial incentivization did not overall impact support for virtual interviewing among program directors with statistical significance.
2020 年和 2021 年，由于 COVID-19 大流行，几乎所有的家庭医学住院医师培训项目都采用了虚拟面试。这种范式转变挑战了美国各地家庭医学项目主任的观点，部分原因是对许多住院医师培训项目运营的财务影响。我们试图调查项目主任对 2020-2021 年面试季的看法，以及未来的面试季计划是否会受到本季财务结果的影响。
我们进行了一项横断面调查，作为 2021 年秋季 CERA 项目主任综合在线调查的一部分。通过电子邮件邀请家庭医学项目主任参加。我们对支持完全虚拟面试模式的可能性进行了多变量逻辑回归分析。
该模块调查的回复率为 41.7%（263/631）；91.3%的项目报告称进行了 2020-2021 年完全虚拟的面试季。报告称，从虚拟面试到面对面面试的成本节约可以用于其他住院医师运营成本的项目主任（32.4%），他们更有可能支持转向完全虚拟的面试模式（优势比：3.94，置信区间：1.69-9.18）。与住院医师项目从亲自会面和评估申请人中受益相比，响应项目主任认为，申请人在完全虚拟的面试季中受益于减轻经济负担，这并不是继续保持虚拟模式的重要原因。
虽然在完全虚拟的招聘季中收回面试费用的家庭医学住院医师培训项目主任更有可能支持持续的、完全虚拟的模式，但财务激励措施并没有从根本上影响项目主任对虚拟面试的支持。
