Using a Consensus-Driven Approach to Incorporate Holistic Review Into an Internal Medicine Residency Program

ABSTRACT:

Background

Despite growing interest in incorporating holistic review within residency admissions, implementation by residency programs remains challenging.

Objective

To incorporate holistic review into the internal medicine residency program at the University of Wisconsin and to report initial feasibility and acceptability data.

Methods

During the 2020-2021 application cycle, residency stakeholders performed a consensus-driven process to identify highly valued applicant attributes. We used a holistic review process to identify the presence of these attributes among applicants and updated our rank list algorithm to incorporate these attributes. We modified our interview screening criteria and rank list algorithm to de-emphasize other metrics. We surveyed stakehold

SUBMITTER: Golden B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10449341 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature