ArticleUrology2021
#AUAMatch: The Impact of COVID-19 on Social Media Use in the Urology Residency Match.
Article in Urology, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.
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- Exploring Social Media Use Among Medical Students Applying for Residency Training: Cross-Sectional Survey Study.JMIR medical education · 2025Article
- Development, Implementation, and Evaluation of a Virtual MedTwitter Curriculum for Medical Students.Medical science educator · 2024Article
- The Impact on Urology Residents' Learning of Social Media and Web Technologies after the Pandemic: A Step Forward through the Sharing of Knowledge.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Review
- Understanding Options for the Unmatched Urology Applicant.Current urology reports · 2023Review
- Postgraduate-Year-1 Residents' Perceptions of Social Media and Virtual Applicant Recruitment: Cross-sectional Survey Study.Interactive journal of medical research · 2023Article
- Analyzing the growth in social media proliferation in academic urology.Canadian Urological Association journal = Journal de l'Association des urologues du Canada · 2023Article
- Increased social media utilization and content creation by cardiothoracic surgery programs during the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic.JTCVS open · 2022Article
- Social media growth of orthopaedic surgery residency programs in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.World journal of orthopedics · 2022Article
- The Urology Match: Social Media, Program Factors, and Their Effect on Application Trends.Journal of medical education and curricular developmentArticle
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Abstract
objectivesTo examine changes in Social Media (SoMe) use among urology residency applicants before and after the COVID-19 pandemic.
methodsWe distributed surveys to individuals who applied to our residency program for application cycles ending in 2018, 2019, and 2021. The surveys included questions about applicants' SoMe use and perceptions of programs' SoMe use during the application process, both before (2018/2019) and after (2021) the COVID-19 pandemic. The primary outcome was SoMe use for professional purposes.
resultsWe received survey responses from 33% (162 of 496) and 29% (84 of 294) of applicants from the 2018/2019 and 2021 cohorts, respectively. There was a significant increase in professional SoMe use in the 2021 cohort (80%) compared with the 2018/2019 cohort (44%) (P < .001). In 2021 compared to 2018/2019, more applicants used SoMe to connect directly with residents (69% vs 34%, P < .001) and with faculty members (65% vs 15%, P < .001). Applicants in 2021 compared to 2018/2019 more often found SoMe to be useful for making decisions about applying to (33% vs 10%), interviewing at (26% vs 7%), and ranking programs (20% vs 9%) (all P < .05). Twitter was the most common platform for applicants to access program information, increasing from 38% to 71%.
conclusionThe COVID-19 pandemic ushered in a period of unprecedented SoMe usage among urology applicants, who used it to learn about and connect with residency programs in new ways. The use of SoMe by residency programs has become an important component of trainee recruitment and is likely to continue in the future.
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