Virtual interviews for admission to health care residency programs during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Arch Argent Pediatr

Centro de Investigación en Educación para Profesionales de la Salud, Instituto Universitario Hospital Italiano, Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Published: October 2022

Introduction: The COVID-19 pandemic forced residency programs to adapt their selection processes. Our objective was to describe the experience of virtual interviews conducted to select residents through applicants' perception.

Population And Methods: An electronic questionnaire was sent to health care residency applicants after their interviews conducted in 2020.

Results: Two-hundred and twenty-one questionnaires were collected and the average distance to the facility was 163 km. Also, 67.9% of the applicants used a personal computer, 98.2% felt that they were treated appropriately, 77.8% were able to state their ideas, and 12.2% reported technical difficulties. In addition, 32.6% said that they would prefer virtual interviews for future selection processes and 17.6%, that it would be irrelevant.

Conclusions: Virtual interviews allowed the resident selection process to be completed; one third of applicants would prefer virtual interviews in the future and there were no apparent technological limitations.

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