Impact of Preference Signals on Interview Selection Across Multiple Residency Specialties and Programs.

ABSTRACT: Background Program signaling is an innovation that allows applicants to express interest in specific programs while providing programs the opportunity to review genuinely interested applicants during the interview selection process. Objective To examine the influence of program signaling on "selected to interview" status across specialties in the 2022 Electronic Residency Application Service (ERAS) application cycle. Methods Dermatology, general surgery-categorical (GS), and internal medicine-categorical (IM-C) programs that participated in the signaling section of the 2022 supplemental ERAS application (SuppApp) were included. Applicant signal data was collected from SuppApp, applicant self-reported characteristics collected from the MyERAS Application for Residency A

SUBMITTER: Rosenblatt AE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10686664 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature