creators_name: Ratnapalan, Savithiri
creators_name: Hilliard, Robert
type: journale
datestamp: 2002-10-12
lastmod: 2011-03-11 08:55:04
metadata_visibility: show
title: Needs Assessment in Postgraduate Medical Education:A Review 
ispublished: pub
subjects: meo-peer
full_text_status: public
keywords: residents, medical education, needs assessment, questionnaire surveys, interviews, focus groups, chart-audit, chart-stimulated recall, standardized patients, environmental scans
abstract: 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
date_type: published
publication: Medical Education Online
volume: 7
number: 8
refereed: TRUE
referencetext: Ratnapalan S, Hilliard RI. Needs assessment in postgraduate medical education: A review Med Educ Online [serial online] 2002;7:8. Available from URL http://www.med-ed-online.org 
citation:   Ratnapalan MBBS, Savithiri and Hilliard MD, EdD, Robert  (2002) Needs Assessment in Postgraduate Medical Education:A Review.  [Journal (On-line/Unpaginated)]     
document_url: http://cogprints.org/2531/1/f0000040.pdf