Showing posts with label signaling. Show all posts
Showing posts with label signaling. Show all posts
Friday, November 15, 2024

Standardized testing returns to college admissions

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  Standardized admissions exams are making a comeback: Elite French university revives entrance exam to combat AI fears. Sciences Po reverse...
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...
Saturday, August 24, 2024

Tattoos

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 Tattoos used to signal something different than they do today. The NYT has the story. The Price of Getting Inked . Whether it’s the expense...
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 ...
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...
Wednesday, April 17, 2024

Signaling in medical residency applications

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 We're starting to see descriptive studies of how signals are being used in the labor market for new doctors.  Each medical specialty ha...
Sunday, December 10, 2023

Signaling for residency programs in dermatology, general surgery, and internal medicine

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We're starting to see some data from signaling for residency applications.  This paper observes that programs are more likely to intervi...
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...
Friday, September 8, 2023

Signaling for Orthopaedic surgery residencies

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 The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery reports a small survey about signaling behavior among applicants for orthopaedic surgery residencies...
Tuesday, August 29, 2023

OB-GYN doctors will use a new application system to apply to residency programs (but will continue to go through the NRMP resident match)

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  Before new doctors can participate in the resident match (by engaging with the NRMP), they first have to apply to residency programs, and ...
Friday, April 21, 2023

Transition from medical school to residency: defending the parts that work well (namely the NRMP Resident Match)

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This post is about a recently published paper concerning the design of the market for new doctors in the U.S.  But it will require some back...