The Effect of Changing Fellowship Interview Format on Candidate Ranking Variabilities: The COVID-19 Experience

Table 1

Comparison of ranking variabilities of interviewers who shared the virtual interview rooms to those who did not share a virtual interview room.

Groups compared	Mean
	Diff.	95% CI diff.
	(Beta)	Low	High	p value
NWSR to WSR ALL	1.33	0.61	2.04	0.0003
NWSR to WSR 1	−3.03	−4.81	−1.24	0.0009
NWSR to WSR 2	−1.03	−2.81	0.76	0.2592
NWSR to WSR 3	−1.47	−3.26	0.31	0.1062	†
NWSR to WSR 4	−0.92	−2.70	0.87	0.3143
NWSR to WSR 5	−1.14	−2.93	0.65	0.2113
NWSR to WSR 6	−0.36	−2.15	1.43	0.6917
NWSR to WSR 7	−1.36	−3.15	0.43	0.1352	†

NWSR, not within the same room; WSR, within the same room., , , † (marginally significant). Mean diff. (beta), mean difference resulted from WSR subtracting NWSR rank range; a negative value denotes greater variability within the NWSR pairs when compared to WSR pairs.