The "Home Effect": The Impact of Virtual Interviews on the 2021 Integrated Plastic Surgery Residency Match.
The "Home Effect": The Impact of Virtual Interviews on the 2021 Integrated Plastic Surgery Residency Match.
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“主场效应”：虚拟面试对 2021 年综合整形外科住院医师比赛的影响。
DOI：
10.1097/prs.0000000000009004
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发表时间：
2022
影响因子：
3.6
通讯作者：
Steinbacher,DerekM
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作者：
Reategui,Alvaro;Khetpal,Sumun;Lopez,Joseph;Steinbacher,DerekM
在COVID-19大流行期间，虚拟面试已成为评估整形和重建外科住院医师职位申请人的唯一方法。虽然虚拟面试有几个优点，包括降低与旅行相关的成本，但人们担心教师是否有能力评估申请人的人际交往能力，确定他们在项目中的“适合度”，并最终确定他们的“匹配度”。鉴于这些考虑，住院医师项目可以通过选择与他们建立关系的申请人来减轻这种不确定性，无论是通过研究努力还是临床经验。为了量化这一现象，我们确定了申请人与各自的家庭或“研究年”计划相匹配的百分比，并假设住院医师倾向于选择那些与自己机构有联系的人，因为虚拟面试存在上述限制。（节目网站，LinkedIn）进行，以确定医学院附属的学生谁匹配到一个综合的整形和重建外科住院医师计划，2021（虚拟面试）和2020（面对面面试）周期。然后，我们比较了这两年在他们的附属机构匹配的学生的百分比。为了确保队列的完整性，我们查看了计划的网站，社交媒体帐户和国家居民匹配计划网站（同时承认这些来源对2021年周期的限制）。2与2020年相比，2021年在其附属课程中匹配的学生增加了10%（+ 20）。在2021年，32%的学生（185人中的59人）在他们的家乡机构匹配，而在前一年，只有22%（180人中的39人）这样做（表1）。“家庭效应”的增强可能反映了两种情况的结合：（1）考虑到某些项目（设施、居住在新城市）的不确定性和不熟悉性，申请人将其家庭项目排名较高;或（2）考虑到以虚拟形式评估申请人的局限性，项目将熟悉的申请人排名较高。3此外，Seifi等人的一项研究表明，虚拟面试形式使评估候选人对特定机构的态度变得具有挑战性。4此外，与面对面的面试相比，虚拟面试有其自身的挑战，例如技术问题和候选人难以展示其独特个性。5后者使教师更难正确评估哪个申请人更适合他们的机构。5
Over the course of the COVID-19 pandemic, virtual interviews have emerged as the sole method of evaluating applicants for plastic and reconstructive surgery residency positions. While virtual interviews confer several advantages, including decreased costs associated with travel, there have been concerns regarding the ability of faculty to assess applicants’ interpersonal skills, determine their “fit” within a program, and ultimately, determine their rank for the “match.” 1 Given these considerations, residency programs may mitigate such uncertainties by choosing applicants who have an established relationship with them, whether through research endeavors or clinical experiences. To quantify this phenomenon, we determined the percentage of applicants who matched into their respective home or “research year” programs and hypothesized that residencies would tend to select those affiliated with their own institutions given the aforementioned limitations of virtual interviews.A retrospective review of public databases (program websites, LinkedIn) was performed to determine the medical school affiliation of students who matched into an integrated plastic and reconstructive surgery residency program for the 2021 (virtual interviews) and 2020 (in-person interviews) cycles. We then compared the percentage of students matching at their affiliated institution in these 2 years. To ensure cohort completeness, we looked at programs’ websites, social media accounts, and the National Resident Matching Program website (while acknowledging these sources’ limitations for the 2021 cycle). 2 In 2021, there was a 10 percent increase (+ 20) of students matching at their affiliated programs compared to 2020. In the year 2021, 32 percent (59 of 185) of students matched at their home institutions, whereas in the previous year, only 22 percent (39 of 180) did (Table 1). The increased “home effect” may reflect a combination of two scenarios:(1) applicants ranking their home programs higher given the uncertainties and unfamiliarity associated with certain programs (facilities, living in a new city); or (2) programs ranking familiar applicants higher given the limitations of assessing applicants in the virtual format. 3 Furthermore, a study by Seifi et al. suggested that a virtual interview format makes it challenging to evaluate a candidate’s attitude toward a specific institution. 4 Moreover, compared to an in-person interview, a virtual one has challenges of its own, such as technical problems and difficulty for candidates to display their unique personality. 5 The latter makes it harder for the faculty to correctly assess which applicant is a better fit for their institution. 5