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 2015 Transforming Training to Build the Family Physician Workforce Our Country Needs Go to Transforming Training to Build the Family Physician Workforce Our Country Needs 2017 Scope of Practice Among Recent Family Medicine Residency Graduates Go to Scope of Practice Among Recent Family Medicine Residency Graduates 2020 Characteristics of Office-Based Buprenorphine Prescribers for Medicare Patients Go to Characteristics of Office-Based Buprenorphine Prescribers for Medicare Patients 2025 Examining the Construct Stability of the Family Medicine Certification Scale Between One-Day Exam and Longitudinal Assessment Go to Examining the Construct Stability of the Family Medicine Certification Scale Between One-Day Exam and Longitudinal Assessment
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 2015 Transforming Training to Build the Family Physician Workforce Our Country Needs Go to Transforming Training to Build the Family Physician Workforce Our Country Needs 2017 Scope of Practice Among Recent Family Medicine Residency Graduates Go to Scope of Practice Among Recent Family Medicine Residency Graduates 2020 Characteristics of Office-Based Buprenorphine Prescribers for Medicare Patients Go to Characteristics of Office-Based Buprenorphine Prescribers for Medicare Patients 2025 Examining the Construct Stability of the Family Medicine Certification Scale Between One-Day Exam and Longitudinal Assessment Go to Examining the Construct Stability of the Family Medicine Certification Scale Between One-Day Exam and Longitudinal Assessment
2015 Transforming Training to Build the Family Physician Workforce Our Country Needs Go to Transforming Training to Build the Family Physician Workforce Our Country Needs
2017 Scope of Practice Among Recent Family Medicine Residency Graduates Go to Scope of Practice Among Recent Family Medicine Residency Graduates
2020 Characteristics of Office-Based Buprenorphine Prescribers for Medicare Patients Go to Characteristics of Office-Based Buprenorphine Prescribers for Medicare Patients
2025 Examining the Construct Stability of the Family Medicine Certification Scale Between One-Day Exam and Longitudinal Assessment Go to Examining the Construct Stability of the Family Medicine Certification Scale Between One-Day Exam and Longitudinal Assessment