Showing posts with label congestion. Show all posts
Showing posts with label congestion. Show all posts
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...
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 ...
Tuesday, August 22, 2023

Search engines as modern oracles, by Andrei Z. Broder & Preston McAfee

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 Among the costs of visiting Mt. Parnassus to consult the Oracle at Delphi was that it was difficult to interpret the answers received, part...
Friday, August 4, 2023

AEA Guidance on the 2023-24 Economics Job Market Cycle

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In an effort to forestall/halt/slow unravelling in the market for new Ph.D. economists, the American Economic Association has released some ...
Friday, April 28, 2023

Interesting development in the transition from medical school to residency: connecting applications and interviews

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  The market for new doctors has been suffering from congestion in applications and interviews, in the runup to the resident Match (see rece...
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...