How Has COVID-19 Affected the Costs of the Surgical Fellowship Interview Process?
Adult
COVID-19
Coronavirus Infections
/ epidemiology
Cost Savings
Cost-Benefit Analysis
Education, Medical, Graduate
/ methods
Fellowships and Scholarships
/ economics
Female
General Surgery
/ education
Humans
Internship and Residency
/ organization & administration
Interviews as Topic
/ methods
Male
Pandemics
Pneumonia, Viral
/ epidemiology
Telecommunications
/ economics
United States
cost
fellowship
interview
match
recruitment
residency
Journal
Journal of surgical education
ISSN: 1878-7452
Titre abrégé: J Surg Educ
Pays: United States
ID NLM: 101303204
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
Historique:
received:
13
04
2020
revised:
29
04
2020
accepted:
16
05
2020
pubmed:
9
6
2020
medline:
2
10
2020
entrez:
9
6
2020
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
To evaluate the effect of COVID-19 on the costs of the surgical fellowship interview process. A literature review of the historical costs of surgical fellowship interviews and a summary of how the shift to virtual interviews has unintended positive and negative effects on costs for applicants and training programs. Transitioning fellowship interviews to virtual platforms affects expenditures of finances and time. Each fellowship candidate saves close to $6,000 in interview travel expenses. Applicants require less time off from their residency programs during this critical time of need for frontline healthcare workers. However, applicants miss some of the live aspects of interviewing, and training programs invest more effort upfront altering their interviews to virtual formats. The COVID-19 public health crisis has had a significant impact on surgical education, including how selection is conducted. Virtual recruitment has the potential for cost savings but should continue to be refined. This is an opportune time to innovate and rethink how to recruit prospective surgical residency and fellowship candidates during the current and forthcoming interview seasons.
Identifiants
pubmed: 32507697
pii: S1931-7204(20)30153-7
doi: 10.1016/j.jsurg.2020.05.018
pmc: PMC7237896
pii:
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Review
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
999-1004Informations de copyright
Copyright © 2020 Association of Program Directors in Surgery. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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