How should residents be selected to meet with the site visitor?
The resident interview is crucial to the site visit. Please follow these guidelines: if the program has ten or fewer residents, the Field Representative will want to speak with all residents who are on duty on the day of the visit. If the program has more than ten residents, the Field Representative will want to speak with 10 to 12 residents. Residents must be selected by their peers, with representation from each year of the program. Chief residents beyond the required years of residency (e.g., a fourth-year internal medicine chief) may not participate in the resident interview (they may be included in the faculty interview). If your program operates a combined program track, such as internal medicine-pediatrics or internal medicine-psychiatry, residents from the combined program should be represented in the interview group. Residents should be made available for the entire interview period, with their pagers and cell phones turned off.
