Segal Joshua D, Ward Brent B, Steed Martin B, Mehra Pushkar, Krishnan Deepak G
Department Chair, Department of Dental Medicine/Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Northwell - Staten Island University Hospital, Staten Island, NY; Associate Professor, Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell, Hempstead, NY.
Chalmers J. Lyons Professor of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Department Chair, Section Head, Program Director, Department of Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery/Hospital Dentistry, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI.
J Oral Maxillofac Surg. 2025 Jul;83(7):906-910. doi: 10.1016/j.joms.2025.03.016. Epub 2025 Mar 31.
Oral and maxillofacial surgery (OMS) residency interviews for the 2021 match during the Covid-19 pandemic were near universally virtual in contrast to in-person interviews of prior years. In deciding whether to conduct in-person or virtual interviews, it is important for residency programs to understand the association of interview type on the distance between dental school attended and the program to which the applicant matched.
The study purpose was to measure the association between the type of residency interview conducted and the distance from the dental school attended to the program which the applicant matched.
STUDY DESIGN, SETTING, SAMPLE: A retrospective cohort study was designed using National Matching Services Incorporated data of all applicants to OMS residency programs who matched the year following dental school between 2019 and 2021. Those who did not match the same year as dental school graduation were excluded.
The predictor variable was interview type. Match years 2019 and 2020 were coded as in-person and match year 2021 coded as virtual.
The main outcome variable was the straight-line distance in miles between dental school attended and residency matched calculated from geographic coordinates.
There were no covariates.
Wilcoxon signed-rank test was performed to determine if an association existed between the interview type and the distance. The significance level was set at a P value of ≤ .05.
The final sample was composed of 418 applicants who matched into OMS residency between 2019 and 2021. There were 277 (66%) and 141 (34%) applicants in the in-person and virtual interview groups, respectively. The mean distances between the dental school and the resident program for the in-person and virtual applicant pools were 633.22 miles (SD = 681.12 miles) and 630 miles (SD = 710.21 miles) respectively, (P value = .6).
While distance between dental school and residency program may play an important role in the match, that distance did not have any statistically significant association with the type of interview.
与往年的现场面试相比，2021年美国口腔颌面外科住院医师匹配项目面试在新冠疫情期间几乎全为线上进行。在决定采用现场面试还是线上面试时，住院医师培训项目了解面试类型与申请人就读牙科学院和匹配项目之间距离的关联很重要。
本研究旨在衡量住院医师面试类型与申请人就读牙科学院和匹配项目之间距离的关联。
研究设计、地点、样本：采用美国国家匹配服务公司的数据进行回顾性队列研究，纳入2019年至2021年牙科学院毕业后匹配到口腔颌面外科住院医师项目的所有申请人。排除未在牙科学院毕业当年匹配成功的申请人。
预测变量为面试类型。2019年和2020年的匹配编码为现场面试，2021年的匹配编码为线上面试。
主要结果变量是根据地理坐标计算的就读牙科学院与匹配住院医师项目之间的直线距离（英里）。
无协变量。
采用Wilcoxon符号秩检验确定面试类型与距离之间是否存在关联。显著性水平设定为P值≤0.05。
最终样本包括2019年至2021年匹配到口腔颌面外科住院医师项目的418名申请人。现场面试组和线上面试组分别有277名（66%）和141名（34%）申请人。现场面试组和线上面试组的牙科学院与住院医师项目之间的平均距离分别为633.22英里（标准差=681.12英里）和630英里（标准差=710.21英里），（P值=0.6）。
虽然牙科学院与住院医师项目之间的距离可能在匹配中起重要作用，但该距离与面试类型无任何统计学上的显著关联。
