Beyond the Clinic Family Medicine on a Mission Part 1: How Air Force Physicians Achieve Humanitarian Goals Read Family Medicine on a Mission Part 1: How Air Force Physicians Achieve Humanitarian Goals
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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 2019 Debt and the emerging physician workforce: the relationship between educational debt and family medicine residents’ practice and fellowship intentions Go to Debt and the emerging physician workforce: the relationship between educational debt and family medicine residents’ practice and fellowship intentions 2024 Data Disaggregation of Asian-American Family Physicians Go to Data Disaggregation of Asian-American Family Physicians 2019 Recruiting and Training a Health Professions Workforce to Meet the Needs of Tomorrow’s Health Care System Go to Recruiting and Training a Health Professions Workforce to Meet the Needs of Tomorrow’s Health Care System 2022 Evaluating the Teaching Health Center Graduate Medical Education Model at 10 Years: Practice-Based Outcomes and Opportunities Go to Evaluating the Teaching Health Center Graduate Medical Education Model at 10 Years: Practice-Based Outcomes and Opportunities
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 2019 Debt and the emerging physician workforce: the relationship between educational debt and family medicine residents’ practice and fellowship intentions Go to Debt and the emerging physician workforce: the relationship between educational debt and family medicine residents’ practice and fellowship intentions 2024 Data Disaggregation of Asian-American Family Physicians Go to Data Disaggregation of Asian-American Family Physicians 2019 Recruiting and Training a Health Professions Workforce to Meet the Needs of Tomorrow’s Health Care System Go to Recruiting and Training a Health Professions Workforce to Meet the Needs of Tomorrow’s Health Care System 2022 Evaluating the Teaching Health Center Graduate Medical Education Model at 10 Years: Practice-Based Outcomes and Opportunities Go to Evaluating the Teaching Health Center Graduate Medical Education Model at 10 Years: Practice-Based Outcomes and Opportunities
2019 Debt and the emerging physician workforce: the relationship between educational debt and family medicine residents’ practice and fellowship intentions Go to Debt and the emerging physician workforce: the relationship between educational debt and family medicine residents’ practice and fellowship intentions
2024 Data Disaggregation of Asian-American Family Physicians Go to Data Disaggregation of Asian-American Family Physicians
2019 Recruiting and Training a Health Professions Workforce to Meet the Needs of Tomorrow’s Health Care System Go to Recruiting and Training a Health Professions Workforce to Meet the Needs of Tomorrow’s Health Care System
2022 Evaluating the Teaching Health Center Graduate Medical Education Model at 10 Years: Practice-Based Outcomes and Opportunities Go to Evaluating the Teaching Health Center Graduate Medical Education Model at 10 Years: Practice-Based Outcomes and Opportunities