Which schools are doing VITA?

[gyngyn]

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I wonder if AAMC is paying/providing incentives for medical schools to offer VITA.

They are not providing incentives. Schools are doing this entirely of their own free will.

 

[KnightDoc]

I wonder if AAMC is paying/providing incentives for medical schools to offer VITA. I'm astonished that some schools (like Upstate) now require CASPer, VITA, and a virtual MMI. Seriously, how many bull** "personality" tests do we need to take before schools are satisfied? They might as well hook us up to polygraphs now during interviews to make sure we're not lying/crazy.

Yup! Beyond making it free, I really don't think any additional incentive would be necessary to entice any school that might be attracted to this. I also get the appeal -- a supposedly unbiased black box that will reduce thousands of applicants to hundreds, in order to allow the schools to sift through mountains of work effortlessly in order to focus on the most promising applicants without actually having to read all our applications. I'm just annoyed that years of hard work will come down to how a programmer told a machine how to interpret the tone of my voice, my body language, or my facial expressions, in addition to the substance of a few taped responses to written prompts under pressure.

 

[EdgeTrimmer]

Yup! Beyond making it free, I really don't think any additional incentive would be necessary to entice any school that might be attracted to this. I also get the appeal -- a supposedly unbiased black box that will reduce thousands of applicants to hundreds, in order to allow the schools to sift through mountains of work effortlessly in order to focus on the most promising applicants without actually having to read all our applications. I'm just annoyed that years of hard work will come down to how a programmer told a machine how to interpret the tone of my voice, my body language, or my facial expressions, in addition to the substance of a few taped responses to written prompts under pressure.

Don't blame programmers like me 🙂

 

[KnightDoc]

Don't blame programmers like me 🙂

I'm going to blame anyone who has their fingerprints on this!! It's the Machines replacing us!!!!

 

[scimusicgirl]

I didn't see this posted yet, so I'm gonna leave this here in case anyone would like a full list:

Medical Schools Participating in the AAMC Video Interview Tool for Admissions

Learn about the AAMC Video Interview Tool for Admissions (AAMC VITA™).

students-residents.aamc.org

 

[KnightDoc]

NEEDS vs WANTS 🙂

Yup.... I don't want to provide the data and I don't need to apply to the schools, but, if I want to apply to the schools then I need to provide the data. 🙂

 

[SarahC42]

Yup! Beyond making it free, I really don't think any additional incentive would be necessary to entice any school that might be attracted to this. I also get the appeal -- a supposedly unbiased black box that will reduce thousands of applicants to hundreds, in order to allow the schools to sift through mountains of work effortlessly in order to focus on the most promising applicants without actually having to read all our applications. I'm just annoyed that years of hard work will come down to how a programmer told a machine how to interpret the tone of my voice, my body language, or my facial expressions, in addition to the substance of a few taped responses to written prompts under pressure.

Welp I do have a mild stutter so I'm looking forward to getting weeded out by a machine!

 

[KnightDoc]

Welp I do have a mild stutter so I'm looking forward to getting weeded out by a machine!

Are you applying this cycle? For now, at least one school has said they are not using scoring by the vendor, so you should be safe insofar that if anyone views the video at all, it will be a human, in which case you'll have the same shot as you would in a live or virtual interview. I also seriously doubt they would blatantly discriminate like that, so I have a feeling you'll actually be fine.

 

[SarahC42]

Are you applying this cycle? For now, at least one school has said they are not using scoring by the vendor, so you should be safe insofar that if anyone views the video at all, it will be a human, in which case you'll have the same shot as you would in a live or virtual interview. I also seriously doubt they would blatantly discriminate like that, so I have a feeling you'll actually be fine.

Yep, applying this cycle! That's some good news at least. Most people are generally very understanding of my condition and it doesn't hinder my communication besides being slightly annoying. I doubt an AI will pick up on the difference though and probably think I'm a nervous wreck and flag me. Gotta love this process