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Career Advising for Residency in Gynecology and Obstetrics: A Needs Assessment Survey of Specialty Career Advisors
Problem: As the OBGYN residency
application process has grown in complexity and the overall medical student
successful match rates into the specialty have declined, additional resources
and training for residency application career advisors is essential to support
medical student applicants. There is limited published data surrounding OBGYN
specialty career advisors’ level of familiarity with career advising resources
and components of the OBGYN residency application.
Intervention:
A Qualtrics survey was created to assess OBGYN faculty familiarity with career
advising resources and best practices for OBGYN residency career advising as
identified by previous APGO publications, AAMC Group on Student Affairs
resources, and medical school dean’s offices. This survey will be disseminated
to OBGYN faculty members via IRB-approved Qualtrics survey.
Context: The Qualtrics survey will be disseminated to OBGYN faculty physicians
in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Northwestern University
Feinberg School of Medicine as well as at other OBGYN departments around the
country. OBGYN faculty who currently serve in a career advising capacity
(either paid or volunteer) or faculty who are eligible to serve as residency
career advisors will be surveyed.
Outcome/Lessons Learned: Results will focus on OBGYN faculty career advisor’s
familiarity with career advising resources, familiarity with components of the
OBGYN residency application and areas in which the respondents would like
additional training. Next steps would include focus groups with medical
students applying in OBGYN to better understand areas of perceived unmet needs
in the application process and with medical school dean’s offices.
* TBD- this study had to be changed from a multi-institutional survey to a
single-site IRB (with the ability to disseminate the survey outside the
institution) and is still undergoing IRB review.
Topics:
ASL, 2023,
