Clickers: Enhancing the Residency Selection Process

Enhancing the Pipeline Route Selection Process

The pipeline route selection process focuses on achieving the optimal location for a pipeline. Even though this is the desired process outcome, in reality it is counter to data and information collection efforts that are concentrated on identifying and inventorying locations for pipeline avoidance. Changing and aligning the routing mindset from output (pipeline route) to input (discipline infor...

Residency Selection: Making a Match

Disparities in the residency match process.

To the Editor: We are writing to express our concerns with the current residency matching process regarding an apparent loophole that treats sponsored US graduates differently than independent applicants from international medical schools. Allowing international graduates to enter the National Resident Matching Program (NRMP) and then withdraw if offered a pre-Match position, is unfair to US gr...

Discrimination against international medical graduates in the United States residency program selection process

BACKGROUND Available evidence suggests that international medical graduates have improved the availability of U.S. health care while maintaining academic standards. We wondered whether studies had been conducted to address how international graduates were treated in the post-graduate selection process compared to U.S. graduates. METHODS We conducted a Medline search for research on the select...

Residency Programs’ Selection Criteria Selection Criteria for Residency: Results of a National Program Directors Survey

Purpose To assess the relative importance of criteria used for residency selection in 21 medical specialties given current available data and competitiveness of specialties. Method In 2006, questionnaires were distributed to 2,528 program directors in university hospital or university-affiliated community hospital residency programs across 21 medical specialties. Responses were recorded using a...