Analysis of Anonymous Student Narratives About Experiences with Emergency Medicine Residency Programs.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Academic emergency medicine (EM) communities have viewed anonymous online communities (AOC) such as Reddit or specialty-specific "applicant spreadsheets" as poor advising resources. Despite this, robust EM AOCs exist, with large user bases and heavy readership. Insights about applicants' authentic experiences can be critical for applicants and program leadership decision-making. To date, there are no EM studies to qualitatively assess EM AOC narratives during the application cycle. Our goal was to perform a qualitative analysis of students' EM program experiences through a publicly available AOC.

Methods

This was a qualitative analysis of a publicly available, time-stamped, user-locked AOC dataset: "Official 2020-2021 Emergency Medicine Applicant Spreadsheet." We

SUBMITTER: Estes M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11000561 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature