Pearls of wisdom for aspiring physician-scientist residency applicants and program directors.

ABSTRACT: Postgraduate physician-scientist training programs (PSTPs) enhance the experiences of physician-scientist trainees following medical school graduation. PSTPs usually span residency and fellowship training, but this varies widely by institution. Applicant competitiveness for these programs would be enhanced, and unnecessary trainee anxiety relieved, by a clear understanding of what factors define a successful PSTP matriculant. Such information would also be invaluable to PSTP directors and would allow benchmarking of their admissions processes with peer programs. We conducted a survey of PSTP directors across the US to understand the importance they placed on components of PSTP applications. Of 41 survey respondents, most were from internal medicine and pediatrics residency programs. Of all

SUBMITTER: Gallagher EJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8986063 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature