Using Kotter's Change Management Framework to Redesign Departmental GME Recruitment.

ABSTRACT:

Background

In light of the COVID-19 pandemic, dramatic change in the graduate medical education (GME) trainee recruitment process was required. Kotter's 8-Step Change Model is a change management framework that has been successfully applied to a variety of GME initiatives but not for recruitment redesign.

Objective

To implement major change in program recruitment during the COVID-19 pandemic while maintaining Match outcomes and a high-quality candidate experience.

Methods

In 2020, we applied Kotter's 8 steps to implement major changes to program recruitment for a department of internal medicine including 15 GME programs (1 internal medicine residency and 14 subspecialty fellowships). We collected each program's Match fill rates and used Google Analytics to collect mon

SUBMITTER: Miles MC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9934828 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature