Bibliographic record
Abstract
To the Editor: I read with much interest the August 2013 article by Hern and colleagues1 regarding potentially illegal questions in residency interviews. As a female candidate I was asked about ethnicity, family planning, and relationship status during my own interview process. One interviewer systematically listed each program in the region to solicit my planned rank order list. This type of questioning is not unusual, and one study2 found that 56/671 (8.3%; 95% CI = 6.4%–10.7%) of emergency medicine residency applicants were asked such questions by program representatives. Providing interviewers with targeted training to prepare them to conduct ethical and effective interviews with applicants could help residency programs to address this problem. It is not surprising that the authors found that these types of sensitive questions negatively affected respondents’ program rankings. When interviewees receive questions that should not be used, they may question the ethics of the selection committee and program. Some survey participants even felt they needed to be dishonest in their responses to such questions. Not only are programs potentially hurting their chances of obtaining highly qualified candidates, but interviewers may obtain false information by asking illegal questions. This only further perpetuates the distrust between programs and candidates in the match process, which has been well described in the literature.3,4 When questions flow naturally in the conversation, interviewees may be less likely to perceive them as illegal. After a long day, interviewers may be less cognizant about the types of questions being posed, allowing sensitive questions to slip into conversation. For these reasons, it is important to provide training for interviewers to maintain a fair and practical selection process. The interview can be a major influence—positive or negative—in candidate program ranking. Training interviewers in sensitive questioning to avoid breaches of ethics and trust would be valuable for the interview process and for our respective disciplines. Aisling Clancy, MD, MSc Third-year resident, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Ottawa Hospital and University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada; e-mail: [email protected]
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.014 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.009 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.026 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; both teacher heads agree on what is shown here.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".