SWIU Modern Guide to Reviewing Urology Residency Applications

Holistic Application Review

Congratulations on seeking to expand how your program considers residency candidates. SWIU has provided tips and resources for inclusion in the application review process, as a starting point or to add to your existing efforts. By reading these tips and sharing them with your reviewers, you’re on your way to building a stronger, more diverse residency and Urology workforce.

• AAMC Holistic Review for Residency Programs
• AMMC presentation
  Introduction to the conceptual underpinnings of holistic review as applied to graduate medical education.
• AAMC Applicant Criteria Identification and Prioritization worksheet
  A brief exercise to examine criteria that are important to your organization to develop a collective sense of how to review applicants.
• How to Reduce Personal Bias When Hiring
  R. Tulshyan, Harvard Business Review, 2019
  Practical tips from HBR on your perspective in recruitment.
• How Clinicians and Educators Can Mitigate Implicit Bias in Patient Care and Candidate Selection in Medical Education
  Q. Capers, Am Thoracic Society Scholar, 2020
  Useful summary of the concept of Implicit Bias and tips in the Tables to operationalize the goal of reducing implicit bias.
• Diversity in the Workforce
  (Session from the 2021 SAU Program Directors, Coordinators & Academicians Meeting)
  Moderators:
  Tracy Morris Downs, MD, FACS; Vijaya M. Vemulakonda, MD, JD, FACS, FCLM
  With presentations by:
  Efe C. Ghanney Simons, MD
  Micha Yin-Zheng Cheng, MD, MPH, MS & Raj Som Pruthi, MD, MHA, FACS
  Ty T. Higuchi, MD, PhD
  Shenelle Wilson, MD
  Simpa Samuel Salami, MD, MPH
• ACGME Equity Matters
• FACS Diversity Resources
• Implementing Scientific Tools into the Selection Process