Virtual Interviews for Fellowship and Residency Applications Are Effective Replacements for In-Person Interviews and Should Continue Post-COVID

The novel coronavirus pandemic has wrought innumerable changes in the day-to-day activities of academic medical centers and departments of surgery throughout the world. While much of the attention has rightfully been placed on clinical matters, the impacts on surgical education have also been profound, and they affect everything from conferences to rotation scheduling to operative volumes.1 At the time of this writing, we are about to enter the residency application season, and programs are grappling with how to manage applications and interviews in a world in which visiting sub-internships have been cancelled and travel for in-person visits and interviews is not feasible.
Source: Journal of the American College of Surgeons - Category: Surgery Authors: Tags: Invited Commentary Source Type: research