Clinical Challenges in Surgical Education: Ob/Gyn ResidencyCAS - Creation of a New Independent Residency Application System

Behind The Knife: The Surgery Podcast

Science, Health & Fitness, Medicine, Education

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🗓️ 2 November 2023

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Challenges continue to plague the residency application process, with programs receiving increased application volume that makes holistic review difficult, and medical student applicants burdened with application costs and uncertainty about what programs best align with their values. As a specialty, Ob/Gyn is facing these problems head on, and have united within their field to create a new independent residency application system, ResidencyCAS. While substantial changes to an already stressful process can be intimidating, the new platform offers many advantages that hope to improve the residency application experience for applicants, programs, and the Ob/Gyn community as a whole. We’re joined by Dr. Maya Hammoud and Dr. AnnaMarie Connolly, two of the leaders in this effort, to break down the creation of ResidencyCAS, plans for its implementation starting in the 2024-2025 application cycle, and the reaction of the Ob/Gyn and medical education communities to this change.

Learning Objectives
1. Listeners will describe current challenges to applicants and programs in the residency application process.
2. Listeners will identify the coming changes to the Ob/Gyn residency application process, with awareness of the planned design and use of the ResidencyCAS system.
3. Listeners will describe the value of potential changes to the residency application process.
4. Listeners will explain the barriers and efforts required to coordinate large-scale changes within medical education like the creation and implementation of ResidencyCAS.
5. Listeners will consider how changes to the residency application process could affect and improve their own field, program, or application.

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0:00.0	Behind the Night, the surgery podcast, relevant and engaging content designed to help you dominate the day.
0:19.0	Hello and welcome to this education focus episode of Behind the Night.
0:22.0	We're the General Surgery Education team from Collagen Clinic.
0:25.0	I'm Nicole Brooks, a General Surgery resident currently out in professional development time focused on surgical education.
0:31.0	And on Judith French, the PhD Education Scientist for the Department of General Surgery at the Collagen Clinic.
0:37.0	I'm Jeremy Lidman, I am the D.I.O. Director of Graduate Medical Education.
0:41.0	Your informant will improve.
0:43.0	On today's episode, we'll be discussing OBGYN's development of their own centralized application system for the residency application process called Residency CAS,
0:52.0	which will go live during the 2024 to 2025 cycle.
0:56.0	While changes to an already stressful time like the residency application process can be overwhelming.
1:01.0	Luckily, we're joined by two leaders in the effort, Dr. Maya Hamud and Dr. Anna Marie Connolly, to help break down the new system for us.
1:09.0	Dr. Maya Hamud is the J. Robert Wilson Research Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Professor of Learning Health Sciences, Chief of the Women's Health Division,
1:18.0	and a Associate Chair for Education at the University of Michigan Medical School.
1:23.0	She also completed her Medical School and MBA and Residency Training at the University of Michigan.
1:28.0	Dr. Hamud is a renowned educator with numerous local and national teaching awards, leader as a past president of the Association of Professors of Gynecology and Obstetrics,
1:38.0	and researcher in medical education, with over $1.75 million in grant funding focused on the undergraduate to graduate medical education transition.
1:47.0	Dr. Anna Marie Connolly is the Chief of Education and Academic Affairs at the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecologists or ACOG.
1:56.0	She completed Medical School at Touch University, followed by Residency and Fellowship in Euro-Genericology and Reconstructive Pelvic Surgery at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
2:05.0	She had an accomplished tenure at UNC over the span of 15 years, where she served as the Annie Louise Wilgerson Distinguished Professor
2:13.0	and held medical education leadership positions, including Clerk Ship Director, Residency Program Director, Fellowship Program Director, and Vice-Sharp Education,
2:21.0	prior to starting her position at ACOG.
2:23.0	Her excellence in medical education has been recognized through prestigious research, numerous teaching awards, and many leadership positions in national societies.
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