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Home Research Research Library The Price of Fear: An Ethical Dilemma Underscored in a Virtual Residency Interview Season The Price of Fear: An Ethical Dilemma Underscored in a Virtual Residency Interview Season 2021 Author(s) Antono, Brian, Willis, Joel Steven, Phillips, Robert L, Bazemore, Andrew W, and Westfall, John M Topic(s) Education & Training Keyword(s) Graduate Medical Education, and Undergraduate Medical Education Volume Journal of Graduate Medical Education Source Journal of Graduate Medical Education In May 2020, the Coalition for Physician Accountability recommended that all residency programs pivot to virtual interviews for the 2020–2021 season. This kept more than 45 000 applicants from traveling cross-country during a pandemic, aiding social distancing efforts. Additionally, it removed travel costs, granting applicants the opportunity to assess more programs. With opportunity and human nature, however, comes the risk of an arms race, where a more open residency market compounds pressure on students to apply to more programs. The residency application process has gone down a behavioral economics rabbit hole, where fear and uncertainty are unnecessarily driving up applications, despite evidence of no benefit to applicants or programs. In what follows, we contextualize the growing problem of application inflation, describe contributing drivers including those introduced by virtual interviews, raise concerns about a conflict of interest for the application steward, and discuss potential solutions. Read More ABFM Research Read all 2022 It Takes a Village to Redesign Residencies… Go to It Takes a Village to Redesign Residencies… 2022 Residency Learning Networks: Why and How. Go to Residency Learning Networks: Why and How. 2021 Sailing the 7C’s: Starfield Revisited as a Foundation of Family Medicine Residency Redesign Go to Sailing the 7C’s: Starfield Revisited as a Foundation of Family Medicine Residency Redesign 2020 Why Are Early Career Family Physicians Driving Increases in Buprenorphine Prescribing? Go to Why Are Early Career Family Physicians Driving Increases in Buprenorphine Prescribing?
Author(s) Antono, Brian, Willis, Joel Steven, Phillips, Robert L, Bazemore, Andrew W, and Westfall, John M Topic(s) Education & Training Keyword(s) Graduate Medical Education, and Undergraduate Medical Education Volume Journal of Graduate Medical Education Source Journal of Graduate Medical Education
ABFM Research Read all 2022 It Takes a Village to Redesign Residencies… Go to It Takes a Village to Redesign Residencies… 2022 Residency Learning Networks: Why and How. Go to Residency Learning Networks: Why and How. 2021 Sailing the 7C’s: Starfield Revisited as a Foundation of Family Medicine Residency Redesign Go to Sailing the 7C’s: Starfield Revisited as a Foundation of Family Medicine Residency Redesign 2020 Why Are Early Career Family Physicians Driving Increases in Buprenorphine Prescribing? Go to Why Are Early Career Family Physicians Driving Increases in Buprenorphine Prescribing?
2021 Sailing the 7C’s: Starfield Revisited as a Foundation of Family Medicine Residency Redesign Go to Sailing the 7C’s: Starfield Revisited as a Foundation of Family Medicine Residency Redesign
2020 Why Are Early Career Family Physicians Driving Increases in Buprenorphine Prescribing? Go to Why Are Early Career Family Physicians Driving Increases in Buprenorphine Prescribing?
