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re: Calling MD's/Med Students
Posted on 7/22/16 at 1:14 pm to Hopeful Doc
Posted on 7/22/16 at 1:14 pm to Hopeful Doc
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What there isn't an algorithm for is how programs choose to rank people and why. Human factor. You'll never understand it.
I was chief resident of my program my last year of residency, and one of my duties was to participate in the interview process for applicants. I probably did 50-60 interviews over 3 days, took a lot of notes, etc. At the end of the last day, I had a rough idea of who I thought were excellent candidates, but I really had a hard time ranking everyone from 1-50 or 60 (whatever the number was). So, I figured when we all gathered to discuss things, it would take a very long time to sort through everyone.
We went into a conference room, the program director put all of the applications on the table and would hold up one at a time. We'd vote "yes" or "no", and she made two piles. After that, we got a chance to make a case for someone we thought was good or bad from the "yes" pile. The program director would listen while arranging the pile of "yes" candidates, and after we got through all of those, the rank list was determined. It took a total of about 30-45 minutes.
So, a committee of about 8 spent 3 days interviewing candidates and less than an hour sorting through all of it. I don't know if that's how it works everywhere, but I thought it was a little shortsighted when you're somewhat responsible for all of these physicians' futures. It was definitely eye opening.
Posted on 7/24/16 at 1:57 pm to medtiger
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I don't know if that's how it works everywhere
My program does interviews through January. Residents go out to dinner, one gives a tour, and then there's a 3 resident panel that interviews the group. Each of those residents evaluates each candidate. There's a score sheet. There are also faculty score sheets. There are also comments. Faculty and Chiefs put together a preliminary rank list, then our program director takes a single noon conference and says, "what needs to change?" The entire program (24) are present and giving input. Moving people up, down, off, and on the list. Faculty reconvene and make the final decisions and tweak it a bit further.
From what I've gathered, we are one of very few that do it this way. But it's pretty cool to have a lot of input into who we do/don't want to work with.
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