[Courtney Matlach]

Hi Angie,

We created a survey monkey and it just asked them two questions:

-Please tell us 1-2 things you do not like about the program and would like to see changed

-Please tell us 1-2 things that you like about the program and do not want to see changed

It was meant as a one time survey, but since I opened the link the residents have been using it to randomly enter anonymous concerns so we are keeping the link live so they can use it as they see fit.

Courtney

[Courtney Matlach]

So glad to see this post, as we were just discussing our honorarium for this year! We are planning on giving $1000 and also covering their travel expenses.

[Courtney Matlach]

At our graduation dinner we present our graduates with their diplomas and then give them the podium to announce their faculty teacher of the year award winner. At our graduation we have ortho residents graduating, podiatry residents, and we do the fellows here also, so it is a lot of people to get through. We used to give out other awards at dinner, but we found that it got too long, and we started losing people’s attention so now we do all other awards during the day at our research event.

[Courtney Matlach]

Channon- thanks for sharing this!

Do you or does anyone else have a policy discussing paternity/ non birth parent leave?

[Courtney Matlach]

Thank you! Looking forward to working with everyone!

[Courtney Matlach]

Hi Katrina,

Our residency diplomas are signed by the president/CEO of our hospital, the dean of our medical school, the chair of our department, and the program director. I have unaccredited fellows as well and the same people who sign for residency have signed for the fellows.

Courtney

[Courtney Matlach]

I just stumbled upon the notification on the programworkshop website that said if you downloaded the browser before 11/2 you may need to reinstall it. I wasn’t notified of this through the incident reporting site you could subscribe into. Anyone else not get this message?

[Courtney Matlach]

Hi Kim,

Attached are the templates I used this year!

Courtney

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[Courtney Matlach]

We are still undecided about what to do. My PD enjoyed the virtual interviews and wouldn’t mind doing them again. I’m sure everyone will agree that the virtual interviews were a lot easier on us then having in person events. However, I do think that if other programs in our area (NYC) are doing in person, we almost feel like we have to do in person as well to be on the same playing field as them.

I agree with what Starla said about the costs of flights these days and so many cancellations/ delays. What will we do if they can’t make it to the interview day, you would feel terrible if you couldn’t reschedule them. Similarly, I thought about what if a candidate reached out a day before their interview saying they had COVID and wanted to reschedule, but your other interview days were all already full or that happened to be your last interview day. And of course, what if there are students who don’t want to take the risk of cancelling or trying to reschedule so they come anyway.

Will definitely be interesting to see how this all plays out.

[Courtney Matlach]

I cant’ even log in! I just emailed the applicants letting them know that I would email once I’ve opened the scheduling feature. Many wrote back saying they are unable to get in at all.

[Courtney Matlach]

I’m assuming that thalamus crashed, but has anyone been able to get in? First ERAS issues on Monday and now this, so frustrating!

[Courtney Matlach]

I tried sending a bulk message to over 700 people and I got a message back saying delivery failed. I called ERAS and they said they were having an issue with bulk messages and to send batches of less then 100. Very frustrating!

[Courtney Matlach]

I was thinking about sending a message through ERAS on Monday saying we’d like to extend you an interview invitation, our interview dates are xyz, and letting them know that on Wednesday they will receive the thalamus link to pick their date.

[Courtney Matlach]

Thanks for the feedback! Glad to hear we may not be the only ones not doing a social the night before.

[Courtney Matlach]

While we won’t have the expense of the pre interview social events this year, unfortunately the hospital’s budget is tight and we can’t justify sending 100 doordash cards.
While it is a nice idea in theory, we never gave out excessive “swag” or paid for hotel rooms. Since ortho is so competitive and we have so many applicants I don’t think by not doing things like this that we are going to go unmatched.

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