Thalamus AI Hub
Thalamus has been innovating in graduate medical education (GME) for over a decade. Today, we stand at the forefront of shaping how artificial intelligence (AI) can responsibly improve residency and fellowship recruitment. This hub is our commitment to transparency, fairness, and mission — a central space to explore our policies, methodologies, product features, and educational resources.
Guided by Principles, Built for Trust
They represent our Commitment to the UME and GME communities.
Transparency
We show exactly how our AI works — and what it does and doesn’t do.
Ethics
Guided by AAMC’s Principles for the Responsible Use of AI in Medical Education; built to reduce bias and protect applicants.
Mission
Ensure the right doctors ends up at the right hospital to treat the right patients.
Impact
Investing in equity and systemic reform through scholarships and workforce research.
Innovation
Responsible technology that strengthens and enhances GME and physician recruitment for all.
How We Use AI, And How We Don’t
Our philosophy is simple: AI should support, not replace, human decision-making.
We build tools that directly address day-to-day challenges in recruitment, save faculty time, and create a fairer process for applicants.
What AI does at Thalamus
Enhanced Grade Normalization (Cortex): Transcript standardization across medical schools.
Bias Monitoring (Analytics): Equity safeguards built into data insights.
What AI does at Thalamus
No automatic filtering, selection or rejection.
No automatic filtering, selection or rejection.
No “black box” scoring that replaces mission-aligned selection and retention.
Methodology of AI in Our Products
Cortex
Tech-assisted application screening and review to support mission-aligned selection and retention.
Al Features: No Al features currently in use
Enhanced Grade Normalization (Cortex): Provides standardized review of transcripts and MSPEs within and across medical schools
Academic Career Interest Badge (Cortex): Identifies academic career interest in personal statements to support fair, consistent, and equitable application review.
Thalamus Core
Comprehensive GME interview management platform
Al Features: No current AI features
Implementation Date: N/A
Integrated Video
Integrated Video Interviews
Al Features: No current AI features
Cerebellum
Data & analytics dashboard for programs and institutions.
Al Features: No current AI features
Automated Itinerary Wizard
Comprehensive GME interview management platform
Al Features: No current AI features
Who We Are & What We Care About
Thalamus is not just software. We are a Public Benefit Corporation (PBC), built by and for the physician educational pathway, ensuring equity, transparency, and trust. Backed by mission-driven investors and grounded in real-world physician workforce research, we are committed to making sure every doctor finds the right training path — and every patient has access to the right care.
Physician-Founded
Built by a former applicant and current program director to streamline and humanize the GME recruitment process.
Public Benefit Corporation
Corporate charter includes our public benefit purpose centered on equitable access to training, reducing systemic inequities, and improving patient outcomes.
Free for Applicants
The only platform in GME that charges applicants $0. Programs and health systems purchase in Thalamus because of the value, efficiency, fairness, and outcomes our platform delivers.
Nonprofit Commitment
Through our sibling non-profit organization, Thalamus.org, we fund scholarships and grants to reduce barriers in applying to residency.
Thought Leadership
Our publications spotlight systemic challenges and opportunities in GME recruitment and the broader physician workforce.
Mission-Driven Investors
Backed by social impact-driven investment, such as from Kapor Capital, we’ve taken a pledge to bias reduction, impact goals, and education.
Our Ethical AI Policy
Bias detection and mitigation incorporated into product development.
Privacy-first approach to applicant and program data.
Commitment to publish methodology white papers for every AI feature.
Independent oversight and future advisory input.
Transparency through Research and Methodological Outcomes
Ensuring Fairness in Residency Recruitment Algorithms
Data Privacy in Applicant Scheduling Systems
Explainability and Validation of Thalamus AI Models
Independent Oversight for the Future
We are building an AI Ethical Advisory Board of physicians, ethicists, and technologists. This group will provide independent oversight, ensuring our AI always aligns with the mission of equity, transparency, and fairness.
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