Post Interview Survey

[Kelly Kovacs]

I have not sent an interview survey out since I’ve been coordinator (closing in on 6 years). I have seen results from an old one that a previous coordinator sent and it was helpful to see some of the comments about the flow/format of the day. I did make changes to the format when we returned to in-person interviews; and after Zoom meeting Starla 😉

To those that send a survey after interviews –

Do you do this every year, or a pattern, or after a format change, etc.?

When do you send it? (right after the interview day, when all your interviews are completed, or some other time before rank/match?)

Anyone care to share an example of their survey?

 

I’m wondering if I should be sending an interview survey, or if that’s just an extra step that I don’t need to worry about. Any insight is appreciated!

Thanks,

Kelly / UToledo

kelly.kovacs@utoledo.edu

[Laurie Lynch]

Hi Kelly!

We suspended our post-interview survey at the mandate of our GME office. They felt it violated the NRMP rules restricting post-interview communication with applicants – “Programs are not allowed to solicit information or imply a response is required for communication between the interview and the match day.” We used to interview our visiting students at the end of their rotation, and our GME office required that we discontinue that as well, since we interview all of our visiting students too.

We switched to a post-match survey. We send this to the applicants who don’t match with us, down to the last person before our last matched person in our rank list. So each year that varies depending on how far down our rank list we go.

We only ask a few questions – “What do you feel is the best feature of our residency program?” “What do you feel we could improve on?” “I did not choose WMed for orthopaedic surgery residency training because . . . ” and a final comment box, “any additional thoughts or comments”

I send each applicant an email with a link to the survey in Google Forms to keep their responses anonymous.

Laurie

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