Poll: YOU are on the residency selection committee. What would YOU do?

As an attending physician, you are friends with nurses and residents on social media.

One day, you are browsing through your social media page. You came across a photo of a student - a candidate applying to your program in fact - scantily clad, inebriated, dancing in a rave. The comments followed agreed on how wild he/she had partied and drank that night.

You are on the selection committee. Should this information be part of the assessment of the candidate?

Please explain your decision in the comments section.

Poll: YOU are the clerkship director - What would YOU do?

You are teaching a clerkship seminar and a student kept checking her iPhone for Facebook updates. You reminded her that she probably should not be distracted and she replied, "Well, I don't need to know ACLS. I am applying to Dermatology anyways."

You happen to be meeting the Dermatology Program Director later that day...

Please feel free to type in your comments below to explain your answer.

Poll: YOU be the residency director - Let's hear your thoughts!

We talk about ethics for treating patients. Are there also similarly thorny issues in medical education? Would love to hear what both learners and educators think about these scenarios.



Here is one for starters:



It is the social night out at a residency interview. A candidate got extremely drunk, vomited and passed out on the bar stool. Should that behavior be included in the assessment by the selection committee?



PLEASE EXPLAIN YOUR REASONING in the Comments link below. We'd love to hear your thoughts.







For those who answered YES, should we tell candidates explicitly that they will be watched during this social event?