AAIM Recommendations for the 2020-2021 Internal Medicine Residency Application Cycle in Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic

Katherine C Chretien; Jaya M Raj; Reeni A Abraham; Paul Aronowitz; Donna J Astiz; Shobhina G Chheda; Ernie L Esquivel; Maria M Garcia; Nadia Ismail; Susan Lane; Suzanne E McLaughlin; Anne Pereira; Amy W Shaheen; Abby L Spencer; Kimberly M Tartaglia; Lisa L Willett

doi:10.1016/j.amjmed.2020.06.002

AAIM Recommendations for the 2020-2021 Internal Medicine Residency Application Cycle in Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic

Am J Med. 2020 Oct;133(10):1223-1226.e6. doi: 10.1016/j.amjmed.2020.06.002. Epub 2020 Jul 10.

Authors

Katherine C Chretien¹, Jaya M Raj², Reeni A Abraham³, Paul Aronowitz⁴, Donna J Astiz⁵, Shobhina G Chheda⁶, Ernie L Esquivel⁷, Maria M Garcia⁸, Nadia Ismail⁹, Susan Lane¹⁰, Suzanne E McLaughlin¹¹, Anne Pereira¹², Amy W Shaheen¹³, Abby L Spencer¹⁴, Kimberly M Tartaglia¹⁵, Lisa L Willett¹⁶

Affiliations

¹ Department of Medicine, George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Washington, DC. Electronic address: kchretie@gwu.edu.
² Department of Medicine, Creighton University School of Medicine, Omaha, NE.
³ Department of Medicine, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX.
⁴ Department of Internal Medicine, University of California Davis School of Medicine, Sacramento, CA.
⁵ Department of Internal Medicine, Atlantic Health System, Morristown, NJ.
⁶ Department of Medicine, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, WI.
⁷ Department of Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY.
⁸ Department of Medicine, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester. MA.
⁹ Department of Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX.
¹⁰ Department of Medicine, Renaissance School of Medicine at Stony Brook, NY.
¹¹ Department of Medicine and Pediatrics, Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, RI.
¹² Department of Medicine, University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis, MN.
¹³ Department of Medicine, University of North Carolina College of Medicine, Chapel Hil, NC.
¹⁴ Department of Medicine, Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine, Cleveland, OH.
¹⁵ Department of Medicine, Ohio State University College of Medicine, Columbus, OH.
¹⁶ Department of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Medicine, Birmingham, AL.

Abstract

This statement was released in June 2020 by the Alliance for Academic Internal Medicine to provide guidance for the 2020-2021 residency application cycle in light of the COVID-19 pandemic. While many of the recommendations are specific to this cycle, others, such as the Department Summary Letter of Evaluation, are meant to be an enduring change to the internal medicine residency application process. AAIM realizes that some schools may not yet have the tools or resources to implement the template fully this cycle and look toward collaboration within the internal medicine education community to facilitate adoption in the cycles to come.

Keywords: COVID-19 pandemic; Graduate medical education; Residency application cycle; Student advising; Undergraduate medical education.

MeSH terms

COVID-19
Coronavirus Infections*
Correspondence as Topic*
Humans
Internal Medicine / organization & administration*
Internship and Residency / organization & administration*
Job Application*
Pandemics*
Pneumonia, Viral*