Square pegs in round holes: How do pediatric emergency medicine fellowship program directors fit graduates of emergency medicine residencies into their programs?

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Pediatric emergency medicine (PEM) fellowship directors can interview candidates from either pediatric or EM residency programs. Currently, most candidates are pediatricians; however, because emergency physicians have attributes that could benefit PEM, our goal was to investigate facilitators and barriers to training more of them to become PEM physicians.

Methods

We surveyed U.S. PEM fellowship program directors (PDs) about their program's recruitment practices: Do they recruit only pediatricians or mostly pediatricians with an occasional emergency physician or do they actively recruit both? We solicited volunteers from each recruitment group for interviews. These were recorded, transcribed, and thematically coded using summative content analysis. Comments were cat

SUBMITTER: Runkle AP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11656375 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature