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The COVID‐19 pandemic created a situation with an urgent need to produce a virtual system for the 2019–2020 pediatric anesthesiology fellowship cycle. With fellowship interviews beginning in April 2020, there was minimal time for programs to adapt. Each program rapidly developed its own platform, expectations, materials, and process for interviews—all while under the stress of managing the unfolding patient care, financial, and leadership crises of the unfolding pandemic.

The aim of this survey‐based study was to help identify changes compared with previous traditional cycles, obstacles encountered, and program director attitudes toward this, and possible future, virtual application cycles. We separately report the results of an applicant‐based survey about the 2020 virtual interview cycle.

A 50‐question survey was developed utilizing Qualtrics. An anonymous survey link was …