Tip of the week: Thank trainees for helping with recruitment
Residency Program Insider, June 6, 2014
Want to receive articles like this one in your inbox? Subscribe to Residency Program Insider!
From meeting with applicants for pre-interview-day dinners to helping to host tours, residents in the Department of Surgery at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio play an important role during recruitment season, says Eileen M. Kleffner, academic coordinator. That's no small task, since the department holds seven interview days and meets with more than 150 applicants.
To thank trainees for participating in recruitment season, Kleffner's department gives residents a point for participation in various activities, such as planning for interview day, taking interviewees out to dinner, assisting with presentations for applicants, and participating in interviews. At the end of the season, participants' names are entered into a drawing for coffee gift bags; movie theater and restaurant gift cards; department hats and shirts; and wine and beer.
"Resident participation is crucial to a successful interview day and this is our way of acknowledging their efforts," Kleffner says.
Want to receive articles like this one in your inbox? Subscribe to Residency Program Insider!
Related Products
-
Residency Program Alert
Residency program managers in all specialties are challenged to effectively manage their programs as accrediting agencies...
-
Residency Program Insider
Residency Program Connection is devoted to bringing residency directors and coordinators expert advice, best practice...
Most Popular
- Articles
-
- CMS seeks comment on quality measures
- Don't forget the three checks in medication administration
- Practice the six rights of medication administration
- Know guidelines and subtle differences in code descriptions for laceration repairs
- Nursing responsibilities for managing pain
- Note similarities and differences between HCPCS, CPT® codes
- Steps for maintaining patient privacy
- Prevent dehydration with nursing interventions
- Q&A: Primary, principal, and secondary diagnoses
- Skills of effective case managers
- E-mailed
- Searched