Emerging from the Pandemic: AAIM Recommendations for Internal Medicine Residency and Fellowship Interview Standards

Traditionally, graduate medical education (GME) programs have conducted applicant interviews via in-person format. The COVID-19 pandemic transformed the process for interviewing residency and fellowship applicants during the 2020-2021 and 2021-2022 recruitment seasons. Applicants and programs developed new approaches for the application and recruitment process; interviews were conducted almost exclusively via a virtual/online format.1-3 Early data from all-virtual GME interview experiences suggest that virtual interviews are widely acceptable to applicants as well as to program directors and allow both groups to adequately learn about each other.

Source: The American Journal of Medicine - July 8, 2022 Category: General Medicine Authors: Vera P. Luther, David A Wininger, Cindy J. Lai, Anthony Dao, Maria M. Garcia, Whitney Harper, Timothy M. Chow, Ricardo Correa, Lindsey J. Gay, Lyle Fettig, Bhavin Dalal, Patricia Vassallo, Steven Barczi, Michelle Sweet Source Type: research