Accepted Type
Dedicated Poster
Code
LP3 - 09
Was this work accepted for CCME 2020?
no
Category
General Call (Workshop, Oral Presentation, Poster Presentation)
Type
Poster
Sub Type
Education Innovation
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Student
Affiliation
Title
Improving Residency Admissions using a Digital Tool
Length of Presentation
Background/Purpose
Residency admissions and selection processes are a major responsibility of post-graduate medical education programs. Coordinating and evaluating hundreds of applicants can demand tremendous financial and human resources on an annual basis and significant amounts of time. Selection committees must also simultaneously ensure that the entire operation remains fair and reliable. A robust, online admissions tool to coordinate the large scope and volume of applications can help to address such challenges.
Summary of the Innovation
The Department of Family and Community Medicine at the University of Toronto has undertaken a process to revolutionize our admissions process by improving time efficiency for faculty, residents and applicants, and increasing the reliability of our file review and interview scores. These improvements have been facilitated by the development of a dynamic, web-based software platform designed to coordinate the application, scheduling, scoring and ranking processes involved in residency admissions processes, effectively minimizing human error and improving efficiency of time and available resources. Key features of our program are as follows: 1) Automate the Recruitment and Assignment of Reviewers and Interviewers; 2) Display Data to Staff in Real-Time; 3) Facilitate Candidate Evaluation with One Centralized Interface; 4) Guide Reviewers' Scoring with Anchors and Interactive Cues; 5) Prevent Missed, Delayed and Inaccurate Data; 6) Allow Score Revisions; 7) Flag Extreme Score Discrepancies and Identify Hawks and Doves.
Conclusion
Although every residency program has its own unique challenges, the lessons learned in the development of our software platform are generalizable to programs across Canada given the overall similarities in residency application and selection processes.
Keyword 1
Residency admissions and selection
Keyword 2
PGME
Keyword 3
Family Medicine
Level of Training
General
Abstract Themes
Admissions
Additional Theme (First choice)
Postgraduate
Additional Theme (Second Choice)
Assessment
Additional Theme (Third Choice)
Authors
Presenter
Sung Min Cho
Term 1
Yes
Term 2
Yes
Term 3
Yes
Term 4
Yes
Term 5
Yes
