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Emergency Medicine Residency Website Wellness Pages: A Content Analysis

Alexandra Sappington, Brian Milman · Western Journal of Emergency Medicine · 2025

Introduction: The COVID-19 pandemic impacted the way medical students seek residency positions. In 2020, the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education advocated for virtual interviews. Most emergency medicine (EM) interviews in 2023 remained virtual, and this format will persist for the foreseeable future. Since students are not evaluating programs in person in most cases, residency websites are crucial for prospective residents. Resident wellness is critical for resident training and important to prospective residents; it follows that programs must be transparent about resident wellness on websites. In this study we aimed to quantify the number of EM programs with wellness pages on their websites and identify themes portrayed on those pages. Methods: We analyzed residency website wellness pages from EM websites based on the 2022 directory of the Electronic Residency Application Service. We independently coded wellness statements through an inductive process. Codes were revised iteratively to consensus and organized into themes. Results: We identified 278 (100%) EM residency websites. Of these websites, 57 (20.5%) had a wellness page, 45 (16.2%) linked to an institutiona

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