Utilizing electronic resources to promote your residency program

Abstract

As the COVID-19 pandemic spread to the United States, it was followed by unprecedented changes. These changes did not spare undergraduate and graduate medical students. Specifically, medical students applying for residency programs were faced with a novel challenge. In March 2020, as the pandemic became increasingly severe, the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) recommended pulling medical students from in-person clinical rotations. By May 2020, the AAMC recommended that all residency interviews be conducted online for the 2020-2021 residency application cycle. These unprecedented modifications to the interview season required programs to quickly adapt and find ways to utilize online tools to convey what their program offered to applicants. In this paper, we will outline the adaptations, tools, and resources that residencies and applicants have used to navigate through the 2020/2021 interview cycle.

The importance of autopsies despite the declining number amidst the COVID-19 pandemic

“…The healthcare field has faced a substantial burden from the pandemic. In addition to impacting frontline workers, the pandemic has also put a strain on undergraduate and graduate medical education, 3 including pathology residency programs. Here, we discuss the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on decreasing the number of autopsies performed by pathology resident physicians 4 and argue for the continued importance of autopsy training in pathology residency programs.…”