A pilot study of the use of the analytic hierarchy process for the selection of surgery residents

Academic Medicine : Journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges
M S WeingartenM J Liberatore

Abstract

To compare a specific decision-making process-the analytic hierarchy process (AHP)-with the traditional informal selection process in the selection of general surgery residents. The study focused on 1994 and 1995 applicants for the four positions in the five-year general surgery residency program at the Graduate Hospital in Philadelphia. Three criteria were used: academic performance, personal fit, and surgical appropriateness. The relative importance of each was determined by pairwise comparison. For each hierarchy level, these comparisons were combined into a pairwise comparison matrix, and weights were determined for each criterion and rating category. The rating-category weights for each criterion were scaled so that outstanding received the full criterion weight. Each applicant was interviewed by three committee members and rated with both the AHP system and the traditional 0-10 scoring system. In both cases the rating scores were averaged to create a single score for each applicant. The final ranking list (advocacy ranking) was compiled at a meeting of the entire selection committee, during which each member spoke on behalf of the candidates he or she had interviewed. Significant Spearman correlations were found between t...Continue Reading

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