Transcript for Using Machine Learning in Residency Applicant Screening

Below is a transcript of the following Academic Medicine Podcast episode: Using Machine Learning in Residency Applicant Screening September 20, 2021 Read more about this episode and listen here. Toni Gallo: This episode is brought to you by Stanford Medicine. Are you an aspiring or early-career physician leader, looking for the skills to help take your …

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Using Machine Learning in Residency Applicant Screening

On this episode of the Academic Medicine Podcast, guest Jesse Burk-Rafel, MD, MRes, joins hosts Toni Gallo and Research in Medical Education (RIME) Committee member Mahan Kulasegaram, PhD, to discuss the development of a decision support tool that incorporates machine learning and the use of that tool in residency applicant screening. They also talk about the …

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When DACA Recipients Seek to Match: Some Tips from the Trenches

As the Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine has been something of a flagship institution for the movement to enable qualified recipients of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program to matriculate into medical school, we are increasingly being asked for tips for DACA recipients applying to residency. We sent our first five …

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The Personal Statement: Helping Medical Students Put Pen to Paper

By: Bruce H. Campbell, MD, professor of otolaryngology and faculty member, Center for Bioethics and Medical Humanities, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Dr. Campbell blogs at Reflections in a Head Mirror. Writing is the best way to talk without being interrupted. -Jules Renard   Several years ago, a senior medical student was struggling with …

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“In Press” or “Forthcoming”: Issues of Naiveté and Experiences for Medical Student Publishing

By J. Michael Homan, MA, Director of Libraries, Mayo Clinic Two articles in Academic Medicine’s November issue underscored issues of integrity and professionalism based on the misrepresentation of unpublished manuscripts in residency applications. Although the Grimm and Maxfield study on the ultimate publication rate of unpublished manuscripts listed in residency applications did not include potential …

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