title: Needs Assessment in Postgraduate Medical Education:A Review 
creator: Ratnapalan  MBBS, Savithiri
creator: Hilliard MD, EdD, Robert
subject: MEO Peer Reviewed
description: Although the concept of needs assessment in continuing medical education is well accepted, there is limited information on needs assessment in postgraduate medical education. We discuss the learning needs of postgraduate trainees and review the various methods of needs assessment such as: questionnaire surveys, interviews, focus groups, chart audits, chart-stimulated recall, standardized patients, and environmental scans in the context of post graduate medical education. 
date: 2002-10
type: Journal (On-line/Unpaginated)
type: PeerReviewed
format: application/pdf
identifier: http://cogprints.org/2531/1/f0000040.pdf
identifier:   Ratnapalan MBBS, Savithiri and Hilliard MD, EdD, Robert  (2002) Needs Assessment in Postgraduate Medical Education:A Review.  [Journal (On-line/Unpaginated)]     
relation: http://cogprints.org/2531/