Novice Experts: Exploring Fellows' Perspectives on the Transition from Residency to Fellowship.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Advanced training experiences are required in certain countries for subspecialization. In the United States, a decline in Milestones and in levels of supervision for Entrustable Professional Activities for incoming subspecialty fellows has been described and attributed to changes in context that fellows experience. We aimed to explore this transition to advanced training, and specifically to describe which contextual factors are salient to fellows at the residency to fellowship transition and the supports available for a smooth transition to fellowship.

Methods

Using contextual competence as a sensitizing concept, ten semi-structured interviews with first- and second-year pediatric subspecialty fellows from three subspecialties were performed at a large academic

SUBMITTER: Chiel LE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11827558 | biostudies-literature | 2025

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature