The current environment of career advising is undergoing rapid upheavals and fragmentation as the transition to residency is marked by specialty-specific experimentation. Specialties that forgo established residency applications service like the Electronic Residency Application Service gain greater control but schools and students lose the ability to have a predictable process (1, 2). Even those specialties that have remain on ERAS are experimenting with their use of signaling and make decisions very close to the actual application deadline. Meanwhile, students expect career advising from very early points in the educational process and accreditation materials emphasize student perception of their advisors’ knowledge. (3) This places student affairs programs and advisors in a position where the knowledge is not entirely available but are evaluated based on the perception of how much they bear.
