Jerry Donowitz, MD, and Brian Uthlaut, MD, program director and vice program director, respectively, of DOM’s Internal Medicine Residency Program, extend their thanks to everyone in the department — faculty, fellows, residents and administrative staff — who helped support or participated in the interview season for the 2016 group of incoming interns.
This year continued a trend, said Uthlaut, of increased interest among fourth-year medical students in internal medicine residency programs, and thus a rising competitiveness for positions in these programs — including UVA’s.
“This year, we had a 40% increase in applications that met our baseline criteria, so we had many outstanding candidates from whom to choose,” said Uthlaut.
Special thanks go to the following faculty members and chief residents for serving on the Intern Selection Committee or interviewing on five or more interview days:
- Chris Arnold
- Adam Carlson
- Lauren Cline
- Scott Cornella
- Patrick Dillon
- Kim Dowdell
- Jeanetta Frye
- Rick Hall
- Will Halligan
- Evan Heald
- Paul Helgerson
- Scott Heysell
- Molly Hughes
- Amber Inofuentes
- Michael Keng
- Sarah Kilbourne
- Jennifer Kirby
- Rachel Kon
- Jessica Lewis
- Allison Lyons
- Pam Mason
- Alex Millard
- Glenn Moulder
- Bryan Sauer
- Neeral Shah
- Jeff Sturek
- Tania Thomas
- Greg Townsend
- Anne Tuskey
- Cirle Warren
- Brian Wispelwey
- Andy Wolf
Match day is March 18th!
Behind the Scenes:
IM Residency Interview Season
Brian Uthlaut (above) provided some detail on this year’s interview season — and insight into how the whole process works:
- Once the application period is closed, applications are reviewed by the Intern Selection Committee, composed of faculty members and chief residents; a total of 2,982 applications were received for the upcoming academic year.
- After review, the committee sends out invitations for interviews; a total of 503 applicants were interviewed on Grounds this year.
- The visits were scheduled on 21 designated interview days between October 26th and January 21st.
- Candidates apply to one of three tracks, which have a total of 37 positions available for the upcoming year:
– categorical — the traditional track, with the largest number of positions (28), emphasizing training in general internal medicine, with a focus on subspecialty and hospital-based practice;
– primary care (3 positions) — for those wanting a career in general internal medicine; emphasizes experience in the ambulatory setting;
– preliminary (6 positions) — a one-year program that provides individuals planning to continue on in other medical disciplines with broad experience in internal medicine (a preliminary year is required in some fields, such as anesthesiology and neurology, before specialty training begins).
- Those interviewed came from all over the continent — from U.C. San Diego to Tufts School of Medicine’s Maine Medical campus; from McGill University in Montreal to the University of Miami.
- After interviews, a “rank” list is developed with input from faculty interviewers, chief residents, current housestaff, and administrative staff; rankings are based on applicants’ clinical performance, academic achievement, research aptitude, leadership potential, and ability to work well in a team.
- The match is conducted by the National Resident Matching Program, which attempts to “match” or merge applicants’ preferences for residency programs and the residency programs’ rankings of their applicant pool.
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