Why the study?
The publication arms race among residency applicants created a need to standardize applicant publication assessment by capturing authorship effort.
The ARCS tool offers a standardized method to assess residency applicant publications based on authorship effort.
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May prompt caution in interpreting applicant publications; leaves open ARCS utility and requires prospective validation.
ARCS standardizes residency applicant publication assessment by attempting to capture applicant authorship effort. ARCS implementation may drive residency applicants to focus on higher effort publications, offering a novel solution to the publication "arms race." Automated ARCS scoring for the upcoming "Match" cycle may be calculated using an applicant's last name and publications' PubMed IDs using https://arcscalculator.com .
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