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Table 6 Recommendations for Developing GEM Fellowship Assessment

From: Towards developing a consensus assessment framework for global emergency medicine fellowships

1) Articulate statement of goals and objectives for fellowship

2) Define list of competencies either de novo or based on previously published competencies for GEM

3) Map competencies to curricular outcomes specific for each GEM fellowship

4) Identify which elements are didactic competencies and which are practical/field based

5) Define your communities of concern and the health problems this GEM fellowship will address/focus on

6) Identify core assessors to include members from each community of concern for that GEM fellowship

7) Outline a format and interval at which fellows are assessed

8) Describe mechanism by which the program itself is evaluated including evaluation by fellows and graduates of the fellowship program