AAIM Recommendations for the 2020-2021 Internal Medicine Residency Application Cycle in Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic

Authors

Katherine C Chretien
Jaya M Raj
Reeni A Abraham
Paul Aronowitz
Donna J Astiz
Shobhina G Chheda
Ernie L Esquivel
Maria M Garcia
Nadia Ismail
Susan Lane
Suzanne E McLaughlin
Anne Pereira
Amy W Shaheen
Abby L Spencer
Kimberly M Tartaglia
Lisa L Willett

Publication Date

10-1-2020

Journal

The American Journal of Medicine

DOI

10.1016/j.amjmed.2020.06.002

PMID

32659220

PMCID

PMC7348588

PubMedCentral® Posted Date

7-10-2020

PubMedCentral® Full Text Version

Post-print

Published Open-Access

yes

Keywords

COVID-19, Coronavirus Infections, Correspondence as Topic, Humans, Internal Medicine, Internship and Residency, Job Application, Pandemics, Pneumonia, Viral, COVID-19 pandemic, Graduate medical education, Residency application cycle, Student advising, Undergraduate medical education

Abstract

This statement was released in June 2020 by the Alliance for Academic Internal Medicine to provide guidance for the 2020-2021 residency application cycle in light of the COVID-19 pandemic. While many of the recommendations are specific to this cycle, others, such as the Department Summary Letter of Evaluation, are meant to be an enduring change to the internal medicine residency application process. AAIM realizes that some schools may not yet have the tools or resources to implement the template fully this cycle and look toward collaboration within the internal medicine education community to facilitate adoption in the cycles to come.