AAIM Principles and Recommendations for the 2021-2022 Internal Medicine Residency Interview Cycle in Response to the Continued COVID-19 Pandemic

• Type of Material: Article
• Authors: Jaya M Raj, Creighton University School of Medicine; Cindy J Lai, UCSF School of Medicine; Stacy Higgins, Emory University; Katherine C Chretien, The George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences; Todd Barton, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine; Claudia A Kroker-Bode, Florida State University College of Medicine; Alvin Calderon, Virginia Mason Medical Center; Catherine Apaloo, Piedmont Athens Regional Internal Medicine Residency; Amy W Shaheen, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
• Language: English
• Date: 2021-11-01
• Publisher: Elsevier Inc
• Publication Version: Final Published Version
• Copyright Statement: © 2021 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
• Final Published Version (URL): http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.amjmed.2021.07.011
• Title of Journal or Parent Work: American Journal of Medicine
• Volume: 134
• Issue: 11
• Start Page: 1427
• End Page: 1431
• Keywords: Interviews as Topic; SARS-CoV-2; COVID-19; Virtual Reality; Humans; Job Application; Infection Control; Virtual interviews; Organizational Innovation; United States; Internship and Residency; Internal Medicine; Residency interviews
• Research Categories: Health Sciences, Medicine and Surgery

Abstract

The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic in 2020 led to rapid collaboration between the undergraduate medical education (UME) and graduate medical education (GME) communities to support an all-virtual residency interviewing process. Although outcomes, such as new intern performance and satisfaction with virtual interviews, are not yet known, the medical education community must make decisions early in the process to allow students, internal medicine clerkships, and internal medicine residency programs to prepare for the 2021-2022 application season.