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Bias Reduction in Academic Recruitment

NCT05616065 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 212

Last updated 2023-04-19

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Summary

The aim of this study is to determine if, with respect to medical students applying for residency in emergency medicine, prior knowledge of an applicant's academic record affects their ranking during their interviews.

Attendings interviewing candidates will either be blinded to their prior academic records or be allowed to review them prior to the interview. The interviewer's final score of the applicant will be measured, comparing blinded versus unblinded assessors.

Conditions

  • Internship and Residency
  • Interview
  • Education, Medical

Interventions

OTHER

Blinding to academic performance of candidate

Each candidate applying to our program will be interviewed by three core faculty. One of them will be selected, a priori, to be asked not to view a candidate's academic performance (medical school transcripts, standardized test scores). This will not be randomized. Instead, it shall be set up so that each assessor has two blinded candidates to interview each day scheduled. Given that different faculty will be scheduled each day, it may end up that certain faculty will be blinded more than others.

OTHER

Usual Interview methodology

Each candidate applying to our program will be interviewed by three core faculty. Two of them will be selected, a priori, to be asked to interview their candidates as they see fit.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Community Medical Center, Toms River, NJ

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Joel Kravitz, MD · Associate Program Director, Emergency Medicine Residency

Study Design

Allocation
NON_RANDOMIZED
Purpose
HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2022-10-12
Primary Completion
2023-02-08
Completion
2023-02-08

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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