title: Emergency medicine Joint Fellowship Curriculum.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  The authors describe a Joint Fellowship Curriculum instituted for emergency medicine fellows in diverse fellowships. The curriculum is based on commonalities established among the varying fellowships offered within their Department of Emergency Medicine. Fellowships included in the curriculum development include Disaster/Emergency Medical Services, International Emergency Medicine, Health Policy, Ultrasonography, and Medical Toxicology.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  The focus of this educational activity is to promote the development of the fellow into an expert within their field of specialization.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Recognizing that topics such as scholarly activities, career development, clinical practice of medicine, business of medicine, and personal development are universally applicable to a variety of emergency medicine fellowships, the curriculum attempts to provide uniform instruction. The quality and applicability of this instruction was assessed and found to have been very well received by the participating fellows.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The authors encourage academic emergency medicine departments with a number of fellowship training opportunities to consider providing such a uniform curriculum of instruction as well.
authors.affiliation: Department of Emergency Medicine, The George Washington University, Medical Faculty Associates, Washington, DC 20037, USA.
authors.forename: Bruno
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Petinaux
authors.forename: Katherine
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Douglass
authors.forename: Jennifer
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Lee
authors.forename: Yiju Teresa
authors.initials: YT
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.forename: Keith S
authors.initials: KS
authors.lastname: Boniface
authors.forename: Cathleen
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Clancy
authors.forename: James
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Scott
mesh_terms: D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D035843:Biomedical Research; D002322:Career Mobility; D003479:Curriculum; D054597:Disaster Medicine / Q000193:education; D004635:Emergency Medicine / Q000193:education* / Q000458:organization & administration; D005257:Fellowships and Scholarships; D006291:Health Policy; D006801:Humans; D007857:Leadership; D008318:Malpractice; D011216:Practice Management, Medical; D012308:Risk Management; D014116:Toxicology / Q000193:education; D014463:Ultrasonography