Frame Kara A, Fortenberry Katherine T, Cochella Susan, Sanyer Osman, Taylor Eliza, Ose Dominik, Stoesser Kirsten
Department of Family and Preventive Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT.
PRiMER. 2023 Nov 29;7:38. doi: 10.22454/PRiMER.2023.262017. eCollection 2023.
Virtual recruitment for all residency programs was endorsed by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) for the 2021 and 2022 recruitment seasons. This study assesses the impact of virtual recruitment on cost and outcome in a family medicine residency program.
We assessed program recruitment costs and interview-day time with applicants in one program for the 2019 to 2022 recruitment seasons, and we sent an anonymous survey to interviewed applicants (n=98) for the 2022 match year. In-person interviews were conducted in 2019 and 2020. Virtual interviews were conducted in 2021 and 2022.
Program recruitment costs decreased from over $70,000 annually for in-person interview seasons to between $10,000 and $20,000 annually for the virtual interview years. Applicant time with the program on interview days decreased from 515 minutes when held in-person, to 345 minutes when virtual. Applicants expressed that they were generally satisfied with the virtual interview format though their preference for the virtual format was only slightly greater than for in-person interviews (38.6% and 35.1%, respectively); 26.3% of the responding applicants had no preference for either format. During virtual interview years, applicants interviewed at an average of 16.6 programs with 80% indicating that virtual interviews allowed for consideration of more programs.
The virtual interview format was associated with decreased interview-day costs for programs and interviewees, and decreased time on interview days for both groups. It allowed applicants to consider more programs.
研究生医学教育认证委员会（ACGME）批准在2021年和2022年招聘季对所有住院医师培训项目采用虚拟招聘方式。本研究评估虚拟招聘对一个家庭医学住院医师培训项目的成本和结果的影响。
我们评估了2019年至2022年招聘季一个项目的招聘成本以及与申请人的面试日时间，并向2022年匹配年的面试申请人（n = 98）发送了匿名调查问卷。2019年和2020年进行现场面试。2021年和2022年进行虚拟面试。
项目招聘成本从现场面试季每年超过70,000美元降至虚拟面试年每年10,000美元至20,000美元之间。面试日申请人与项目的时间从现场面试时的515分钟减少到虚拟面试时的345分钟。申请人表示他们总体上对虚拟面试形式感到满意，尽管他们对虚拟形式的偏好仅略高于现场面试（分别为38.6%和35.1%）；26.3%的回复申请人对两种形式都没有偏好。在虚拟面试年，申请人平均面试16.6个项目，80%的人表示虚拟面试使他们能够考虑更多项目。
虚拟面试形式与项目和面试者的面试日成本降低以及两组在面试日的时间减少相关。它使申请人能够考虑更多项目。
