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ACADEMIC PEDIATRICS
Volume 21, Issue 1, Pages 24-31Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
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Graduate Medical Education; recruitment; virtual interview; workforce; web-based interview
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Virtual recruitment is recommended for medical education programs this year by various medical organizations. The approach will require careful consideration due to concerns for safety, equity, and financial pressures. Communication theories will be used to examine the potential effects of web-based interviews, and best practices will be compiled from literature.
Recent directives from The Coalition for Physician Accountability, Association of Pediatric Program Directors, Council on Medical Student Education in Pediatrics, and Association of Medical School Pediatric Department Chairs recommend virtual recruitment for graduate medical education (GME) programs this year. Driven by concerns for safety, equity and financial pressures, virtual interviewing will require a thoughtful approach to achieve the desired goals of recruitment. Drawing on the fields of communication and human resources management, we examine the potential effects of web-based interviews on communication through the lens of several communication theories: media richness, media naturalness, and signaling. We then review the literature on virtual interviews in GME training programs. Finally, we will provide best practices compiled from the literature
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