Neurosurgery Applicant Perspective of Neurosurgery Residency Websites

Empower Your Applicants: Why Residency Programs Need to up Their Website Game

“…4 Residency program websites can serve as an important source of information for students 5 and have been shown to influence applicants rank lists. 6 However, the study by Tsai and colleagues in this issue of the Journal 7 confirms that wide variation exists in how programs use websites to showcase their strengths, curriculum, and resources. At a broad level, US program websites were found to be more comprehensive than Canadian websites.…”

“…Prior studies have shown that applicants highly value information about faculty, residents, research opportunities, and curriculum. 6,8 The CaRMS website provides a ranking of influences on first-choice program location. Top items include impression of town, leisure activity opportunities, collegiality between faculty and residents, support within program, diversity of training within a program, cultural diversity of the town/city, and level of responsibility given to residents (in addition to "non-modifiable" influences such as proximity to friends and family and employment prospects for partner).…”