A surgeon spends over a decade in school and residency perfecting their medical skills, but that education doesn't usually include human resources training. Yet, when it comes to placing candidates into surgical programs, the hiring responsibilities fell on the shoulders of surgeons...

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Some 30,000 medical students across the United States on Friday learned where they would be heading next year. Each student opened an email or an envelope; inside was the name of the residency program where they’d been accepted...

Performance on situational judgment tests is more closely associated with overall performance among surgical residents compared with traditional cognitive measures, such as the US Medical Licensing Examination Step 1 (USMLE1), according to the results of a study published in JAMA Surgery.

Aimee Gardner has a PhD in Organizational Psychology and is Assistant Dean of Evaluation & Research at Baylor College of Medicine. She joins us for a provocative discussion of how residency programs select medical students. This is a fraught issue for our profession and the concepts around recruiting are generalizable across any organization.

Surgeons hone their medical skills in schools and residents for over a decade, but their education usually does not include human resource development. Still, when it came to putting candidates into the surgical program, the responsibility for hiring rested on the surgeon’s shoulders.