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    "pk": 10004,
    "title": "What do they want from us? A survey of EM Program Directors on EM application criteria.",
    "subtitle": null,
    "abstract": "ABSTRACT\n \nIntroduction\n Although a relatively young specialty, emergency medicine (EM) is quite popular among medical students and is one of the most competitive large specialties.  Consequently, students increasingly seek more opportunity to differentiate themselves from their colleagues by pursuing more clerkships at the cost of taking out additional loans.  This despite the fact that those who match in emergency medicine typically do so in their top three choices.  We sought to ascertain what factors EM program directors seek in their typical candidate.  \nMethods\n Emergency Medicine program directors were recruited via the Council of Residency Directors email listserv to participate in an anonymous survey regarding the United States Medical Licensing Examination (USMLE), the number of Standard Letters of Evaluation (SLOE), and the number of EM rotations during the fourth year.  \nResults\n 135 respondents completed the anonymous survey.  59% of respondents stated their program did not have a minimum USMLE Step 1 score, but 39% reported a minimum score of 210 or higher. 95% of programs do not require Step 2 to grant an interview, but 46% require it to place the student on the rank list.  80% require only one EM rotation to grant an interview and none require more than 2.  95% of programs will accept 2 SLOEs for both application and rank list placement.  \nConclusion\n For the typical emergency medicine applicant, there is likely little benefit to performing more than two rotations and obtaining more than two SLOEs. Students can defer USMLE Step 2 but must complete it by the time rank lists are due. Our study was limited by the anonymity of the survey and comments by the respondents revealed the questions did not account for some nuances programs apply to their application review process.",
    "language": "en",
    "license": {
        "name": "Creative Commons Attribution 4.0",
        "short_name": "CC BY 4.0",
        "text": "Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.\r\n\r\nNo additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.",
        "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0"
    },
    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "residency match"
        },
        {
            "word": "residency application"
        },
        {
            "word": "Emergency Medicine"
        }
    ],
    "section": "Brief Research Report",
    "is_remote": true,
    "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8rt2531z",
    "frozenauthors": [
        {
            "first_name": "Kevin",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "King",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio\n7703 Floyd Curl Drive, MC 7736\nSan Antonio, TX 78229\n(210)567-4291",
            "department": "None"
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Dara",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Kass",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "NYU School of Medicine\n462 1st Avenue\nNY NY 10016",
            "department": "None"
        }
    ],
    "date_submitted": "2016-07-08T17:39:03Z",
    "date_accepted": "2016-07-08T17:39:03Z",
    "date_published": "2017-01-17T18:42:21Z",
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}