Incorporation of a Social Virtual Reality Platform into the Residency Recruitment Season.

ABSTRACT:

Rationale and objectives

The Covid-19 pandemic ushered a sudden need for residency programs to develop innovative socially distant and remote approaches to effectively promote their program. Here we describe our experience using the social virtual reality (VR) platform Mozilla Hubs for the pre-interview social during the 2020-2021 radiology residency virtual recruitment season, provide results of a survey sent to assess applicants' attitudes towards the VR pre-interview social, and outline additional use-cases for the emerging technology.

Materials and methods

A VR Meeting Hall dedicated to the pre-interview social was designed in Mozilla Hubs. To assess applicants' impressions of the Mozilla Hubs pre-interview social, applicants were sent an optional web-based survey. Surve

SUBMITTER: Guichet PL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9058555 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature