Personality Assessment and Emotional Intelligence in Orthopaedic Surgery Residency Selection and Training.

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2-3-2020

Abstract

Orthopaedic surgery has increasingly emerged as one of the most popular and competitive of all medical specialties. The selection of the best applicants has become a more difficult process because the number of qualified medical students has concomitantly grown. Although there are standardized guidelines in residency selection, there are several intangible factors that determine an applicant's fit into a program. Personality assessments, such as the Neuroticism-Extraversion-Openness Personality Inventory and the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, are proficiencies that have garnered significant interest to help fill this void. Understanding and measuring empirically supported measures of personality traits and styles of medical students and residents may be valuable to medical educators and program directors in a variety of applications such as residency selection, mentoring, and education. Similar to personality identification, emotional intelligence assessments, such as the Mayer-Salovey-Caruso Emotional Intelligence Test, can prove to be pivotal tools in residency education and training. Emotional intelligence has shown to align with current Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education residency standardized core competencies that emphasize aptitude in noncognitive characteristics.

Publication Title

The Journal of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons

PubMed ID

32015248

Comments

This article was published in The Journal of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons.

The published version is available at https://doi.org/10.5435/JAAOS-D-19-00633

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