Medical Education Takes a Step in the Right Direction

Crane, Matthew A; Chang, Howard; Azamfirei, Răzvan

doi:10.1001/jama.2020.2950

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“…With changes to step 1 score reporting, research may become an even more emphasized part of an application, as program directors search for additional ways to stratify applicants. 9 The high reported numbers may lead applicants to pursue an additional research year, a strategy which is increasing in surgical subspecialties but is not a universally possible experience due to limiting factors such as financial constraints. 2 An unpaid research year could place significant burden on applicants with family considerations.…”

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Reporting of Research by Matched Otolaryngology Residency Applicants

Dhanda

Ward

Warren

et al. 2020

Ann Otol Rhinol Laryngol

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Objectives: Matching to an otolaryngology residency program is a competitive process for medical students, and research performed by students is considered as a factor for granting interviews by program directors. Because abstracts, presentations and publications are all reported in combination by the National Resident Matching Program’s “Charting Outcomes in the Match” (ChOM) and may be weighted differently by PDs, we specifically investigated the number of publications by past applicants accepted to top otolaryngology residency programs. Methods: The top 25 otolaryngology residency programs were identified using Doximity, sorting by reputation. Current residents were determined from the programs’ websites. Using PubMed, each resident’s number of publications, authorship status, and journal type were recorded. Results: A total of 24 programs were included in the final analysis and the average number of manuscripts was 2.76 ± 4.01. The mean number of publications in otolaryngology journals was 1.03 ± 1.91. Conclusions: The difference between the investigated average number of publications (2.76) and those published by ChOM (10.4) represent a discrepancy due to the lack of delineation between abstracts, presentations and publications. The reported numbers for research may lead medical students to pursue alternate measures to increase their own research. Some options, such as adding a research year are not universally accessible. A clearer and more detailed approach to reporting research statistics would be beneficial to both applicants and PDs for otolaryngology programs.

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Reporting of Research by Matched Otolaryngology Residency Applicants

Dhanda

Ward

Warren

et al. 2020

Ann Otol Rhinol Laryngol

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“…Although the potential for excessively weighting a single assessment remains in play with Step 2 CK, alternative approaches, such as weighted or composite scores incorporating related metrics such as the numerical NBME shelf scores from key rotations (e.g., surgery, neurology, medicine), may have a role in offsetting this bias. 6 Simulation-Based Interviewing Looking outside of neurosurgery, several programs have developed novel tools for resident applicant assessment that may prove useful in our field. One such instrument is simulation-based interviewing, in which the formal resident applicant assessment includes a component of dedicated medical evaluation, with skills such as suturing, imaging interpretation, or laboratory result assessments.…”

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“…Perhaps the most obvious alternative to the Step 1 score is the Step 2 Clinical Knowledge (CK) score, which will continue to be reported as a numerical 3-digit score—at least for the foreseeable future. 2 , 6 , 7 Potential benefits of an increased reliance on Step 2 CK include the familiarity of the scoring system, standardization of the examination across medical schools, and significantly more clinically focused content. To this end, related studies from the internal medicine literature have identified the Step 2 CK examination as the strongest predictor of multimodal resident performance assessments.…”

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Stepping Up: How U.S. Neurosurgery Training Programs Can Innovatively Assess Resident Applicants in a Post-Step 1 World

2020

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Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre-including this research content-immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.

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“…Converting tried and true methods to a new medium will generate unforeseen barriers. PDs will confront additional pressures to enact holistic review methods as they combat racial injustices and the impending elimination of a three digit Step 1 score (Aibana et al, 2019;Katsufrakis and Chaudhry, 2019;Crane, Chang and Azamfirei, 2020). In line with the need for holistic review, the added salience of racial unrest demands a critical analysis of interview programming.…”

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Making Lemonade Together -- How Program Directors, Applicants, and Medical Schools Can Thrive During the Upcoming Interview Season

Daulton¹,

Kassam²,

Milligan³

et al. 2020

MedEdPublish

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The virtual residency interview process ushers in a new era of medical education. Many stakeholders are increasingly concerned as validated recommendations regarding Match success appear less reliable, fossilized rules have become increasingly fluid, and traditional streams of communication have become inadequate. Program directors will look to sell their program using unvalidated methods. Applicants will make life-altering decisions using fewer data points than historically available. Medical schools will endeavor to advise their students as they gear up for breaking new ground. In this piece, we introduce considerations and recommendations for the main players involved in the virtual interview process. If each party prioritizes teamwork and communication, we can collectively tackle the challenges of the upcoming cycle and turn lemons into lemonade.

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Medical Education Takes a Step in the Right Direction

Cited by 25 publications

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Reporting of Research by Matched Otolaryngology Residency Applicants

Reporting of Research by Matched Otolaryngology Residency Applicants

Stepping Up: How U.S. Neurosurgery Training Programs Can Innovatively Assess Resident Applicants in a Post-Step 1 World

Making Lemonade Together -- How Program Directors, Applicants, and Medical Schools Can Thrive During the Upcoming Interview Season

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