Interviewing For Residency as an LGBTQ+ Applicant: Compounded Problems With Virtual Interviewing.

Publisher: Elsevier Country of Publication: United States NLM ID: 101303204 Publication Model: Print-Electronic Cited Medium: Internet ISSN: 1878-7452 (Electronic) Linking ISSN: 18787452 NLM ISO Abbreviation: J Surg Educ Subsets: MEDLINE

Original Publication: New York, N.Y. : Elsevier

COVID-19* ; Internship and Residency* ; Sexual and Gender Minorities*; Female ; Gender Identity ; Humans ; Male ; Pandemics ; SARS-CoV-2

Applying to and interviewing for residency positions can be challenging tasks for LGBTQ+ applicants. Resident and faculty surgeons have expressed challenges in disclosing their sexual orientation and/or gender identity throughout the recruitment process. Discrimination and lack of LGBTQ+ inclusion in the recruitment process may have been exacerbated by virtual interviews in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The authors describe their experiences interviewing virtually for academic general surgery programs, and academic and university-affiliated/community residency programs as LGBTQ+ applicants. Several recommendations are offered to help reduce LGBTQ+ discrimination and to help make institutions more inclusive with the overall aim of making resident recruitment more inclusive for LGBTQ+ applicants.
(Copyright © 2021 Association of Program Directors in Surgery. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.)

Keywords: LGBTQ+; inclusion; interviews; recruitment; residency; virtual interviews

Date Created: 20211028 Date Completed: 20220224 Latest Revision: 20220224

20231215

10.1016/j.jsurg.2021.10.005

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