Exploring Social Media Use Among Medical Students Applying for Residency Training: Cross-Sectional Survey Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Since the COVID-19 pandemic, residency candidates have moved from attending traditional in-person interviews to virtual interviews with residency training programs. This transition spurred increased social media engagement by residency candidates, in an effort to learn about prospective programs, and by residency programs, to improve recruitment efforts. There is a paucity of literature on the effectiveness of social media outreach and its impact on candidates' perceptions of residency programs.

Objective

We aimed to determine patterns of social media platform usage among prospective residency candidates and social media's influence on students' perceptions of residency programs.

Methods

A cross-sectional survey was administered anonymously to fourth-year m

SUBMITTER: Jandu S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11869503 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature