In today's episode, we sit down with Adam Tarnowsky, Senior Product Manager of Analytics at Acuity Insights, to discuss residency match data and how Analytics by Acuity Insights can help programs get a better picture of their learners to serve them better during the residency match phase of their development. The ultimate objective: help medical students find the right path to a residency that fits them best.

Timestamp of our conversation: 01:01 - What is a comprehensive data integration platform? 02:40 - What is residency match data? 08:08 - Effective ways of using residency match data 10:46 - How do programs benefit? 13:15 - How Analytics comes in 15:34 - Takeaways for programs and advisors

Speakers: Kelly Dore Co-Founder/VP Science & Innovation at Acuity Insights

Adam Tarnowsky Senior Product Manager, Analytics

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In today's episode, we sit down with Kelly Dore, Co-founder and VP Science & Innovation at Acuity Insights, and Dr. Alex MacIntosh, Senior Research Manager, also at Acuity Insights, to talk about test-optional admissions. Test-optional admissions came out of the necessity to rethink admissions during the COVID 19 pandemic and while it was originally thought to be a temporary measure, it hasn't gone away. Listen to Kelly and Alex walk us through the advantages, disadvantages, and where the alternatives to this might be.

Timestamp of our conversation: 01:24 - What are test-optional admissions? 06:20 - Current perception of test-optional admissions 10:03 - Advantages of test-optional admissions 13:34 - Disadvantages of test-optional admissions 19:46 - Alternative paths 27:10 - Advice for schools

Speakers: Anju Visen-Singh Senior Director, Marketing at Acuity Insights

Kelly Dore Co-Founder/VP Science & Innovation at Acuity Insights

Dr. Alex MacIntosh Senior Research Manager at Acuity Insights

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In today's episode, we speak with Sylvia Mioduszewska, Senior Product Manager at Acuity Insights, to discuss how programs share data they collect on their learners with them. This is a big topic with a lot of variation across programs, so Sylvia walks us through how the data is typically collected and how it is shared, the benefits and hindrances of sharing certain data with learners, and recommendations for programs going forward.

Timestamp of our conversation: 01:32 - What data do health science programs usually share with learners? 02:25 - How do programs manage all this learner data? 05:58 - What are the benefits of sharing data with learners? 07:46 - Can sharing data with learners hinder them? 10:49 - Recommendations

Speakers: Kelly Dore Co-Founder/VP Science & Innovation at Acuity Insights

Sylvia Mioduszewska Senior Product Manager at Acuity Insights

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In today's episode, we sit down with Dr. Alex MacIntosh, Senior Research Manager at Acuity Insights, to talk about Situational Judgement Tests (SJTs). Situational Judgement Tests present realistic situations to applicants and ask them how they would respond to the situation. Dr. MacIntosh walks us through open- and fixed-response SJTs and how the open-response format helps highlight the 'why' behind the response and is better able to showcase the lived experiences of the respondent.

Timestamp of our conversation: 01:08 - What is a Situational Judgement Test? 05:37 - How do open response SJTs impact evaluation? 06:53 - The role of Subject Matter Experts in SJTs 10:23 - Accounting for cultural differences in SJTs 14:55 - What are the benefits to video responses? 17:06 - Casper vs. Multiple Mini Interviews (MMIs)? 17:57 - How can Casper help institutions who are resource-strapped? 18:59 - How do Casper and MMIs complement each other?

Speakers: Kelly Dore Co-Founder/VP Science & Innovation at Acuity Insights

Dr. Alex MacIntosh Senior Research Manager at Acuity Insights

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In today's episode, we sit down with Sylvia Mioduszewska, Senior Product Manager at Acuity Insights, to talk about the growing trend of moving to a pass/fail curriculum. Sylvia walks us through the advantages and disadvantages of making the jump, as well as how to determine if the change is right for your #HigherEd institution.

Timestamp of our conversation: 01:14 - Where did the trend of pass/fail come from? 02:46 - Advantages of pass/fail curriculum 04:56 - Disadvantages of the pass/fail curriculum 06:38 - Determining if pass/fail is right for you 08:26 - The most important things to get right

Speakers: Kelly Dore Co-Founder/VP Science & Innovation at Acuity Insights

Sylvia Mioduszewska Senior Product Manager at Acuity Insights

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In today's episode, we speak with Dr. Lyndal Parker-Newlyn, Associate Professor of Medical Education at the University of Wollongong School of Medicine about the benefits and obstacles when admissions aligns with mission.

Timestamp of our conversation: 01:47 - Benefits of aligning mission with admissions 03:13 - How to help applicants find the right mission 05:08 - How do you build mission-led admissions? 09:24 - Building stakeholder engagement 11:50 - What are the roadblocks to stakeholder engagement? 16:41 - Takeaway

Speakers: Kelly Dore Co-Founder/VP Science & Innovation at Acuity Insights

Lyndal Parker-Newlyn Associate Professor of Medical Education at University of Wollongong School of Medicine

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In today's episode, we speak to Kelly Dore, Co-Founder/VP Science & Innovation at Acuity Insights, about the upcoming enrollment cliff in education and what steps institutions can take now to prepare for the changes ahead.

Timestamp of our conversation: 01:45 - What is the enrollment cliff? 03:19 - Is the enrollment cliff real? 04:50 - How to prepare for the cliff? 11:11 - How a holistic approach can help 13:11 - Takeaways

Speakers: Kelly Dore Co-Founder/VP Science & Innovation at Acuity Insights

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In today's episode, we examine the world of patient encounter tracking with Meegan Carlson, Director of People & Culture at Acuity Insights. Patient encounter tracking is the method by which programs track the progress of their students and their interactions with various patients, techniques and types of illness. Meegan's years of experience in this area involves a lot of hard won improvements that can be made for future students, as well as their programs.

Timestamp of our conversation: 00:37 - Why is patient encounter tracking important? 01:55 - The different kinds of patient tracking 02:51 - Tracking the program as well as the student 03:27 - Best practices for live/simulated patient tracking 05:54 - Barriers to adopting best practices 07:03 - Takeaways

Speakers: Kelly Dore Co-Founder/VP Science & Innovation at Acuity Insights

Meegan Carlson Director of People & Culture at Acuity Insights

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In today's episode, we sit down with the Founding Dean of the University of Texas at Tyler School of Medicine, Dr. Brigham C. Willis. Over the last two years, Dr. Willis has created a whole new medical education process for UTTyler and over our discussion explains the difficulties and freedoms of starting from scratch, as well as giving tips on how to not just start well, but continue well into graduating qualified students.

Timestamp of our conversation: 01:36 - Setting up a new medical school 04:56 - Thinking differently about admissions 13:51 - Top considerations for choosing software 16:48 - Preparing for the entry of your first cohort 20:05 - Engaging stakeholders 21:05 - Advice on leading a new school from inception

Speakers: Kelly Dore Co-Founder/VP Science & Innovation at Acuity Insights

Dr. Brigham C. Willis Founding Dean, University of Texas at Tyler School of Medicine

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In today's episode, Kelly speaks with Andrea Wright, Acuity's Market Strategy Manager, about what life in the trenches of admissions is really like. Andrea's perspective illuminates the shared concerns across academia and business. We understand the connection between admissions and recruitment, the importance of non-academic skills for students in all types of programs – business, engineering, law, psychology and more – and get helpful advice and takeaways for admissions professionals.

Timestamp of our conversation: 01:18 - The admissions journey 04:27 - The interplay between recruitment and admissions 05:27 - Admissions challenges, and advice 09:36 - Non-academic skills required across disciplines 13:34 - Takeaways

Speakers: Kelly Dore Co-Founder/VP Science & Innovation at Acuity Insights

Andrea Wright Market Strategy Manager at Acuity Insights

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