title: 'Speed advising' for medical students applying to residency programs: an efficient supplement to traditional advising.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Over time, Residency Match dynamics fluctuate with some specialties experiencing increases in medical student popularity. Academic departments with limited resources must devise methods for coping with increased demand for their specialty. Students perceive traditional programs on Match mechanics as inadequate. Subsequently, faculty are confronted with demands for more personal attention from more students.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  We developed a strategy for providing specialty-specific residency match advising to large numbers of students.
  
  
  METHODS
  The 'speed-advising' session (SAS) was developed to address the common questions and concerns that medical students pose during the Match process and to provide advisees with a breadth of faculty perspectives. Two SASs were offered over a 2-week period. After the sessions, students and faculty were surveyed regarding their experience.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Twenty-six students pursued our specialty in the 2015 Match (26 of 234, 11.1%). Twenty-three (89%) participated in the SAS. Seventy-four percent of students (17 of 23) and all faculty completed the post-session survey. Students found the SAS to be informative, helpful and an efficient use of time. Common discussion topics included: career goals, to which programs and how many to apply, and how academic record impacts their likelihood of matching in our specialty. Students would have preferred more time with each faculty; however, most (77%) conceded that their questions were adequately answered. Faculty-favored speed advising over traditional advising (86%), primarily due to estimated time savings of 7.3 h per faculty member.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  In preparing students for the Match, specialty-specific speed advising offers an efficient supplement to traditional advising.
authors.affiliation: Department of Emergency Medicine, The Ohio State University College of Medicine, Columbus, OH, USA; jillian.mcgrath@osumc.edu.
authors.forename: Jillian L
authors.initials: JL
authors.lastname: McGrath
authors.affiliation: Department of Emergency Medicine, The Ohio State University College of Medicine, Columbus, OH, USA.
authors.forename: Jason J
authors.initials: JJ
authors.lastname: Bischof
authors.affiliation: Department of Emergency Medicine, The Ohio State University College of Medicine, Columbus, OH, USA.
authors.forename: Sarah
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Greenberger
authors.affiliation: Department of Emergency Medicine, The Ohio State University College of Medicine, Columbus, OH, USA.
authors.forename: Daniel J
authors.initials: DJ
authors.lastname: Bachmann
authors.affiliation: Department of Emergency Medicine, The Ohio State University College of Medicine, Columbus, OH, USA.
authors.forename: David P
authors.initials: DP
authors.lastname: Way
authors.affiliation: Department of Emergency Medicine, The Ohio State University College of Medicine, Columbus, OH, USA.
authors.forename: Diane L
authors.initials: DL
authors.lastname: Gorgas
authors.affiliation: Department of Emergency Medicine, The Ohio State University College of Medicine, Columbus, OH, USA.
authors.forename: Nicholas E
authors.initials: NE
authors.lastname: Kman
mesh_terms: D004635:Emergency Medicine / Q000193:education*; D005180:Faculty, Medical; D006801:Humans; D007396:Internship and Residency / Q000458:organization & administration*; D012570:School Admission Criteria; D013337:Students, Medical
keywords: education, graduate medical, students; education, undergraduate medical; medical; student advising