Residency Recruitment

Holistic Residency Review Toolkit

Articles to Refer to

Matching Our Mission:  A Strategic Plan to Create a Diverse Family Medicine Residency

Bridging the Gap:  Holistic Review to Increase Diversity in Graduate Medical Education

A Call to Improve Conditions for Conducting Holistic Review in Graduate Medical Education Recruitment

Information Collected During the Residency Match Process Does Not Predict Clinical Performance

USMLE Resources           

Examining Demographics, Poor Academic Performance, and United States Medical Licensing Examination Scores 

The impact of United States Medical Licensing Exam (USMLE) step 1 cutoff scores on recruitment of underrepresented minorities in medicine:  A retrospective cross - sectional study

Virtual Recruitment Resources

Making Lemonade Together - How Program Directors, Applicants, and Medical Schools Can Thrive During the Upcoming Interview Season

Interviewed while Black

Holistic Review considers the "whole" applicant

Minority Visiting Elective

Underrepresented in Medicine Visiting Elective Program

One of our diversity goals is to increase racial and ethnic diversity reflecting the population of the Cincinnati and surrounding community that we serve. To that end, the Office of Diversity and Inclusion is now sponsoring the University of Cincinnati and Cincinnati Children’s Underrepresented in Medicine Visiting Elective Program. We will sponsor up to 12 funded visiting elective positions, space permitting, available from July through October for applicants from backgrounds underrepresented in medicine. This program will provide a stipend up to $1500, to help defray the cost of an away rotation, to 4th year medical students attending a U.S. medical school from backgrounds that are underrepresented in medicine including Black/African American, Hispanic/Latino, Native American/Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander.

Our program includes a 4-week clinical rotation in the departments of Anesthesia, Dermatology, Emergency Medicine, Family Medicine, Family Medicine-Psychiatry, General Surgery and subspecialties (Cardiothoracic Surgery, Transplantation, Urology, Vascular Surgery), Internal Medicine, Medicine-Pediatrics, Neurology, Neurosurgery, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Ophthalmology, Orthopedic Surgery, Otolaryngology, Pathology, Pediatrics, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Psychiatry, Radiation Oncology, Radiology.

Please find the link below to access the minority visiting elective application:

Supporting Programs

Minority Housestaff Association

The University of Cincinnati Minority Housestaff Association is a newly formed organization established under the direction of several residents, to create opportunities for the advancement of underrepresented house staff through mentorship, networking, professional development and community engagement.