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Podcast: Explore The Space
Episode: Aimee Gardner On USMLE Step 1 & Choosing Residents
Description: Aimee Gardner has a PhD in Organizational Psychology and is Assistant Dean of Evaluation & Research at Baylor College of Medicine. She joins us for a provocative discussion of how residency programs select medical students. This is a fraught issue for our profession and the concepts around recruiting are generalizable across any organization.
Key Learnings
1. How we connected during the controversy surrounding standardized tests for medical students.
2. The major criteria that make a candidate attractive to a residency program
3. Defining Step 1 of the USMLE and the stakes and stress associated with it...