The Carbon Footprint and Cost of Virtual Residency Interviews.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The shift from in-person to virtual residency interviews may impact greenhouse gas emissions (GHGE) and costs but the direction and amount of this change is not yet clear.

Objective

To estimate GHGE and financial impacts of virtual interviews among applicants and programs.

Methods

In 2020-2021 we sent a postinterview survey to 1429 applicants from 7 residency programs and 1 clinical psychology program at 1 institution. The survey collected origin of travel and transit type if in-person interviews had been held and excluded responses if the applicant would not have participated in an in-person interview, or if travel type or original city was missing. We used the International Civil Aviation Organization calculator to estimate flight-related GHGE in metric t

SUBMITTER: Domingo A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9934836 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature