Showing posts with label congestion. Show all posts
Showing posts with label congestion. Show all posts
Tuesday, November 19, 2024

AI assisted job applications (and application screening)

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  NBC news has the story: AI is supposed to make applying to jobs easier — but it might be creating another problem Companies have touted ne...
Thursday, September 26, 2024

Many preference signals as a soft cap on number of applications in medical residency matching

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  Here's a review article on matching for medical residents,  with particular attention to neurosurgery, in the Cureus Journal of Medica...
Monday, September 16, 2024

Preference signaling for urologists (including Flush Day)

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  It's been very interesting for me to watch the growth of preference signaling to combat congestion in applications and interviews, fro...
Friday, August 16, 2024

Preference signaling in the Political Science job market

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  There is now signaling in the Political Science job market:  They allow job candidates to send up to three signals: here's the APSA...
Tuesday, August 6, 2024

Interviews, flyouts and offers in the job market for new PhD economists, 2024-25

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  We may still be in a period of disequilibrium in the conduct of the market for new economists, as Zoom interviews have replaced in-person ...
Sunday, July 21, 2024

Signaling for medical residencies: the first few years

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Two papers report on signaling in Otolaryngology and Orthopaedic surgery.  The Otolaryngology societies have a summary of the current state ...
Wednesday, June 19, 2024

Centralized assignment mechanisms that don't include all the relevant choices, by Kapor, Karnani and Neilson in the JPE

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 One of the issues in organizing a centralized matching mechanism is to make the market thick, by including all or most of the relevant choi...
Saturday, June 1, 2024

The Path to a Match for Interventional Cardiology Fellowships

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The  Society for Cardiovascular Angiography & Interventions  has started a fellowship match, and here's an article describing the fa...
Friday, May 24, 2024

NRMP Board of Directors (2020-2024), and a 40th anniversary

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  This bit of glass marks the end of my term on the National Resident Matching Program (NRMP) Board of Directors. One of the issues that con...
Thursday, May 23, 2024

Social Media and Job Market Success: A Field Experiment on Twitter, by Qiu, Chen, Cohn, and Roth

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  Here's a new working paper on SSRN: Social Media and Job Market Success: A Field Experiment on Twitter, by Jingyi Qiu, Yan Chen, Alai...
Thursday, April 4, 2024

Interviews by lottery at Queens University School of Medicine

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 Overwhelmed by large numbers of applications, and concerned about fairness, Queens University will set admissions thresholds (on grades and...
Saturday, March 23, 2024

Kidney biopsies can be predicted pretty well, which could speed organ allocation

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 Here's a big international collaboration suggesting that AI assisted predictions about kidney biopsies are effective, and could speed a...
Thursday, March 7, 2024

Increasing kidney transplants by reducing discards of risky kidneys

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  Kidneys from deceased donors are too often discarded. Dr. Joshua Mezrich , a transplant surgeon at U. Wisconsin, writes in Stat about how ...
Sunday, January 28, 2024

Experiments for organ allocation (an idea whose time may be coming)

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 Experiments to improve how deceased donor organs are allocated to waiting patients seem like a good idea... OPTN Task Force sets goal of ac...
Wednesday, January 3, 2024

Pilot projects to speed deceased donor organ allocation

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I won't use the word "experiments" for fear of the evil eye, but the OPTN is planning to authorize 'pilot programs' to...
Wednesday, December 6, 2023

Applying for medical residencies: a consensus statement from Internal Medicine

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 The Alliance for Academic Internal Medicine has released a "consensus statement" with many proposals about application and interv...
Thursday, September 14, 2023

Congestion in peer review, and an experiment in Nature (the journal)

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 Too many papers, and not enough qualified reviewers willing or able to spend the time reviewing them.  And when a paper is reviewed, revise...