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Challenges of virtual interviewing for surgical fellowships: a qualitative analysis of applicant experiences
Surgical Endoscopy ( IF 2.4 ) Pub Date : 2021-08-27 , DOI: 10.1007/s00464-021-08691-9
Roi Anteby _{1,

2} , Robert D Sinyard ₁ , Kristen M Jogerst _{1,

3} , Sophia K McKinley ₁ , Taylor M Coe ₁ , Emil Petrusa ₁ , Roy Phitayakorn ₁ , Daniel J Scott ₄ , L Michael Brunt ₅ , Denise W Gee ₁

Affiliation

Background

The COVID-19 pandemic forced surgical fellowship programs to transition from in-person to remote applicant interviews; the virtual interviewing format presented new and unique challenges. We sought to understand applicants’ perceived challenges to virtual interviewing for a surgical fellowship program.

Method

A grounded theory-based qualitative study was performed utilizing semi-structured interviews with fellowship applicants from the 2020 fellowship match. All Fellowship Council-registered applicants were eligible. We purposefully sampled participants to balance across gender, specialty-choice, and academic versus community-program affiliation. Interviews were inductively analyzed by two researchers for prominent themes.

Results

Fifteen interviews were conducted. Participants were 60% male (n = 9), with 33% (n = 5) from non-academic institutions. They applied for the following fellowships: Advanced Gastrointestinal/Minimal Invasive (55%), Bariatric (30%), Hepatopancreatobiliary (10%) and Surgical Oncology (5%). Four main themes emerged to describe virtual interview process challenges: (1) perceived data deficiency, (2) superficial personal connections, (3) magnification of non-professionalism, and (4) logistical frustrations. Applicants recommend program directors provide more information about the fellowship prior to interview day and offer informal independent interactions with current and previous fellows.

Conclusions

According to fellowship applicants, virtual interviews resulted in a lack of information for rank-list decision making ultimately requiring them to rely on other information avenues to base their decisions. These applicants have offered advice to fellowship program directors and future applicants to better optimize this process.

中文翻译：

外科奖学金虚拟面试的挑战：申请人经历的定性分析

背景

COVID-19 大流行迫使外科奖学金计划从面对面的申请人面试过渡到远程申请人面试；虚拟面试形式提出了新的独特挑战。我们试图了解申请人对外科奖学金计划虚拟面试的感知挑战。

方法

利用对来自 2020 年奖学金匹配的奖学金申请者的半结构化访谈，进行了一项基于扎根理论的定性研究。所有奖学金委员会注册的申请人都有资格。我们有目的地对参与者进行抽样，以平衡性别、专业选择以及学术与社区计划的隶属关系。两位研究人员针对突出的主题对访谈进行了归纳分析。

结果

进行了十五次采访。参与者为 60% 的男性（n = 9），33%（n = 5）来自非学术机构。他们申请了以下奖学金：高级胃肠/微创 (55%)、减肥 (30%)、肝胰胆 (10%) 和肿瘤外科 (5%)。出现了四个主要主题来描述虚拟面试过程的挑战：（1）感知数据不足，（2）肤浅的人际关系，（3）非专业主义的放大，以及（4）后勤挫折。申请人建议项目主管在面试日之前提供更多关于奖学金的信息，并提供与现任和前任研究员的非正式独立互动。