Development of a Training Needs Assessment for an Education Scholarship Fellowship in Emergency Medicine

At the 2012 Academic Emergency Medicine consensus conference, Education Research in Emergency Medicine: Opportunities, Challenges, and Strategies for Success, a breakout session convened to discuss postgraduate fellowship training in emergency medicine (EM), which would focus on education research. Graduates will form a growing cadre of education scholars who conduct and publish quality education research. This proceedings article reports the consensus findings of a breakout session subgroup whose goal was to construct a needs assessment for the proposed 2-year education scholarship fellowship. The authors describe, based on expert and participant consensus, a framework for a large-scale, mixed-methods needs assessment for such a fellowship.