Justin T Clapp, Sarah J Heins, Timothy G Gaulton, Melanie A Kleid, Meghan B Lane-Fall, Jaya Aysola, Dimitry Y Baranov, Lee A Fleisher, Emily K B Gordon
Problem: Medical educators increasingly champion holistic review. However, in U.S. residency selection, holistic review has been difficult to implement, hindered by a reliance on standardized academic criteria such as board scores. Masking faculty interviewers to applicants' academic files is a potential means of promoting holistic residency selection by increasing the interview's ability to make a discrete contribution to evaluation. However, little research has directly analyzed the effects of masking on how residency selection committees evaluate applicants...
April 25, 2023: Teaching and Learning in Medicine