Through an accepted seven-step process outlined by the International Association for
Medical Education, we created a high-quality questionnaire that will provide objective
evaluation of prospective hand surgery fellows’ goals and desires. Utilizing qualitative
methodology via semistructured interviews with prospective and current hand surgery
fellows from across the United States, we developed a codebook that represented desired
themes within a one-year hand surgery fellowship, focusing on numerous topics including
the importance of exposure to a specific pathology, curriculum, fellowship size, and
location, etc. We then generated a survey, validated it among experts including current
program directors, and performed cognitive interviews with the same prospective and
current fellows to ensure content validity. The result was the creation of a survey,
which can be employed to monitor trends in the goals and desires of prospective hand
surgery applicants to ensure that fellowships remain adaptable and current.
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Publication history
Published online: March 13, 2023
Accepted:
January 2,
2023
Received:
June 16,
2022
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