Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Sundel, Margaret H.
• John, Ace St
• Kavic, Stephen M.

Titel

Surgical matchmaking: Cutting-edge solutions for reshaping residency selection

Ist Teil von

• The American journal of surgery, 2024-10, Vol.236, p.115792, Article 115792

Ort / Verlag

New York: Elsevier Inc

Erscheinungsjahr

2024

Quelle

Elsevier ScienceDirect Journals

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• The specialty of obstetrics and gynecology recently announced that it will not use the Electronic Residency Application Service (ERAS) in 2024-25.1 Motivations for this move include making the application process easier and reducing costs while still utilizing the matching algorithms of the National Residency Match Program (NRMP), which no longer names ERAS as the required application service for programs.2 Naturally, every other specialty will pay close attention to this experiment and reevaluate the advantages or disadvantages of the current process. The arms race of applications There has been an escalating number of applications in general surgery, with an average of over 1000 per program.3 Although medical schools should provide mentorship to applicants in refining their program list, applicants are often given advice to apply broadly without real data on the strengths of individual programs. Allowing free text fields provides the ability to list by state or metro area, which is far more precise than census region—the South Atlantic region is over 265,000 square miles.