February 14, 2024 Residency Newsletter

• ABEM In-Training Exams Starting Soon
• New Application Process For Some Residencies
• How Does AI Affect Creativity?
• How Will Maine Decide To Integrate IMGs Into the Workforce?

ABEM ITEs February 27- March 2, 2024

The primary purpose of the ABEM In-training Examination is to provide an estimate of the likelihood that a resident will be able to pass the ABEM Qualifying Exam. The ITE targets the expected knowledge and experience of a 3rd year Emergency Medicine resident. Are your residents prepared?

ABEM ITE Information

Resident ITE Scores: A Practical Overview

New OBGYN Residency Application - AMA

It won’t change how the Match process works - that still goes through NRMP.  And dual applicants must use ERAS for their non-OBGYN application, while using ResidencyCAS for the OBGYN application (fun). Program Signaling was getting the blame for falling OBGYN applications in recent years, and ResidencyCAS aims to provide a less expensive, more targeted approach to Match. The AMA is funding the Right Resident, Right Program, Ready Day One grant.

What to Know About the New OB-GYN Physician Residency Application - AMA

AI Helps and Hurts Student Creativity

Large Language Models are pretty awesome for brainstorming up ideas, but just like any collaboration, the conversation tends to set the limits of thinking. If we ask an LLM to give us 50 ideas for employee engagement, it will come up with stuff that we won’t have thought of. But at the same time, we tend to then focus on those ideas and exclude or don’t think about anything outside of them. Our read on use of LLMs in education is that they can be part of a process, but only after the problem definition and scope of problem thinking has been done.

Awesome for diagnostics, after the human does the differential.  “What else could these presentations mean?”

AI Can Help - And Hurt - Student Creativity - The Conversation

Maine Proposal for IMG Practice

The article seems to confuse broader efforts by some states to increase nursing workforces, but Maine’s proposed legislation makes them either the fourth or fifth state to have some variation of licensing allowing foreign-trained practicing physicians into the workforce. Depends on how you count Florida and Washington state’s proposal. Most are some variation of practice under supervision in a teaching hospital for X years. Tennessee was the first to pass licensing changes last year, we couldn’t find any information on implementation yet.

Commission Proposes Program to Integrate Foreign-Trained Physicians into Maine’s Medical Workforce