A Critical Disconnect: Residency Selection Factors Lack Correlation With Intern Performance.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Emergency medicine (EM) residency programs want to employ a selection process that will rank best possible applicants for admission into the specialty.

Objective

We tested if application data are associated with resident performance using EM milestone assessments. We hypothesized that a weak correlation would exist between some selection factors and milestone outcomes.

Methods

Utilizing data from 5 collaborating residency programs, a secondary analysis was performed on residents trained from 2013 to 2018. Factors in the model were gender, underrepresented in medicine status, United States Medical Licensing Examination Step 1 and 2 Clinical Knowledge (CK), Alpha Omega Alpha (AOA), grades (EM, medicine, surgery, pediatrics), advanced degree, Standardized Lett

SUBMITTER: Burkhardt JC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7771600 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature