Residency Programs Signaling This Cycle

[Noemata]

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Hey everyone, just wanted to know your thoughts and impressions about this particular site: Signal – The Residency Application Preference Signaling Platform

Their platform allows applicants to submit "signals" to 12 programs they're interested in the most. It looks interesting, but they would probably need your AAMC ID, so wouldn't this be an NRMP violation?

Look forward to hearing your thoughts!

 

[efle]

I think this site is being used by ENT this year to dispense up to 5 tokens per applicant. Maybe other specialties will see that and follow suit. Right now haven't heard about any others planning to do this (besides Ophtho reportedly also capping people's total interviews attended in SF Match this year)

Edit: My mistake. ENT (and Urology) have explicitly banned this website. It's a private company trying to offer this kind of token system as a service. Seems like any specialties opting to do this will be doing it via alternative methods than this company tho

 

[Oedipa Maas]

Hey everyone, just wanted to know your thoughts and impressions about this particular site: Signal – The Residency Application Preference Signaling Platform

Their platform allows applicants to submit "signals" to 12 programs they're interested in the most. It looks interesting, but they would probably need your AAMC ID, so wouldn't this be an NRMP violation?

Look forward to hearing your thoughts!

I think ERAS should do this but have it built into their platform and maybe only allow a top three. For some people, 12 is their entire rank list and at that point, signaling would be just as questionable in value to programs as writing letters of intent.

 

[Noemata]

Agreed! Or it could be a specialty-dependent number of tokens too.

 

[ace_inhibitor111]

I have a hard time believing enough students will get on board for this to actually work.

 

[Matthew9Thirtyfive]

This particular platform seems kind of sketchy. Maybe it’s just because I’m on my phone, but the site is extremely basic with zero info about the company or who is running it.

 

[Noemata]

Yeah, hopefully PDs are aware of such systems and don't select applicants who've sent a signal through such a platform, since many students may not even know about this!

 

[efle]

Yeah, hopefully PDs are aware of such systems and don't select applicants who've sent a signal through such a platform, since many students may not even know about this!

I sincerely doubt they are getting many PD sign ups either