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.