Resources for Holistic & Inclusive Residency Recruitment

Increasing the diversity in residency programs requires intentional planning for each step of recruitment. Use these resources to learn about evidence-based practices in holistic review of applications as well as methods for reducing bias in the residency interview process.

Best Practices & Bright Spots 

• Increasing URiM Family Medicine Residents at University of Utah Health
• Antiracism in Residency: A Multimethod Intervention to Increase Racial Diversity in a Community-Based Residency Program
• Matching Our Mission: A Strategic Plan to Create a Diverse Family Medicine Residency
• Leading From the Front: An Approach to Increasing Racial and Ethnic Diversity in Surgical Training Programs

Holistic Review & Structured Interviews

• Reporting of USMLE Step 1 as Pass/Fail: A Benefit for Residency Programs and Those Underrepresented in Medicine?
• Evidence-Based Inclusive Graduate Medical Education Recruitment Strategies
• Using structured interviews to reduce bias in emergency medicine residency recruitment: Worth a second look

Policies and Positions

• Holistic Review, Mitigating Bias, and Other Strategies in Residency Recruitment for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion: An Evidence-based Guide to Best Practices from the Council of Residency Directors in Emergency Medicine
• AAIM Recommendations to Promote Equity and Inclusion in the Internal Medicine Residency Interview Process

Mitigating Implicit Bias

• Kirwan Institute - Implicit Bias Module Series
• Harvard Implicit Association Test
• How Clinicians and Educators Can Mitigate Implicit Bias in Patient Care and Candidate Selection in Medical Education
• Reducing implicit racial preferences: I. A comparative investigation of 17 interventions.

STFM Graduate Medical Education Committee 

The above resources were compiled and reviewed by:

Timothy P. Graham, MD, MHPE
Chief Medical Officer
Mount Carmel Health System
Westerville, OH

Tiffany Ho, MD, MPH 
Assistant Professor
University of Utah, Department of Family and Preventive Medicine
Salt Lake City, UT

Teresa Bormann, MD
Site Director
Center for Family Medicine (Sioux Falls) FMR
Pierre, South Dakota

Karl Clebak III, MD, MHA, FAAFP 
Associate Professor, Program Director
Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine
Hershey, PA

Brintha Vasagar, MD, MPH
Program Director
Bayhealth Family Medicine Residency Program
Dover, DE

Candace Murbach, DO
Assistant Program Director
Memorial Health-University Med Center/Mercer University School of Med (Savannah)
Savannah, GA

Ecler Jaqua, MD, MBA, DipABLM, DipABOM, FAAFP, FACLM 
Associate Professor
Loma Linda University Health Education Consortium
Loma Linda, CA

Paul Larson, MD, MS, MBA, CPE
Chief of Primary Care, Lifespan Physician Group
Providence, RI

Emily Walters
Director of Education & Special Projects
Society of Teachers of Family Medicine