Electives in obstetric/gynecology residencies. Evidence of flexibility.
Bibliographic record
Abstract
OBJECTIVE: To describe the patterns of electives in obstetric and gynecology (OB/GYN) residencies. STUDY DESIGN: A cross-sectional survey of all 274 U.S. and Canadian residency directors assessed the type and number of electives offered by residency programs and correlated these with program characteristics. A separate survey evaluated resident satisfaction with electives at the University of Cincinnati (UC). RESULTS: Electives were offered by 53.8% of U.S. programs (95% CI: 45.2, 60.4), and 92% of electives were offered in the third year. The median length was four weeks, and surgical experience was the most common type of elective. A larger proportion of Canadian programs offered electives, which were of longer duration. The proportion of programs reporting electives did not vary with city size, program size or location. Among 29 UC residents, 62% arranged an optional elective, 92% were satisfied with the experience, and 5 residents (28%) reported that electives influenced their career choice. CONCLUSION: The prevalence of electives appears higher than listed in currently available directories, although lower than in other primary care residencies.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.010 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.004 | 0.000 |
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; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
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".