{"pk":16953,"title":"Factors Applicants Value when Selecting an Emergency Medicine Residency","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Objective: Little is known about the factors important to applicants when selecting an emergency medicine residency. We sought to identify which residency-specific criteria applicants value in selecting a training program.\n\n\nMethods: We conducted an anonymous survey of emergency medicine interviewees at our residency. Applicants were asked to rate each of 18 factors on a four-point scale from 1 (“not at all important”) to 4 (“very important”) in their selection of a residency.\n\n\nResults: Of 82 interviewees, 73 (89%) completed the survey. The factors with the top six mean scores were: how happy the residents seemed (3.9), program personality (3.8), faculty enthusiasm (3.7), geographic location (3.6), experience during interview day (3.5), and pediatrics training (3.5).\n\n\nConclusion: The top three factors deemed most important to emergency medicine applicants are primarily intangibles, while programs have no control over the fourth most important factor, location.\n\n\n[WestJEM. 2009;10:159-162.]","language":"en","license":{"name":"none","short_name":"none","text":"","url":"http://google.com"},"keywords":[{"word":"Graduate Medical Education"},{"word":"Emergency Medicine"},{"word":"Internship and Residency"},{"word":"Interviews"},{"word":"personnel selection"}],"section":"Article","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/86k6p9wq","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Lalena","middle_name":"M","last_name":"Yarris","name_suffix":"","institution":"Oregon Health & Science University, Department of Emergency Medicine and the Center for Policy and Research in Emergency Medicine, Portland, OR","department":"None"},{"first_name":"Nicole","middle_name":"M","last_name":"DeIorio","name_suffix":"","institution":"Oregon Health & Science University, Department of Emergency Medicine and the Center for Policy and Research in Emergency Medicine, Portland, OR","department":"None"},{"first_name":"Robert","middle_name":"A","last_name":"Lowe","name_suffix":"","institution":"Oregon Health & Science University, Department of Public Health and Preventive Medicine and the Department of Medical Informatics and Clinical Epidemiology, Portland, OR","department":"None"}],"date_submitted":"2008-06-24T07:00:00Z","date_accepted":"2008-06-24T07:00:00Z","date_published":"2009-08-01T07:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/westjem/article/16953/galley/8578/download/"}]}