Proposed core content for pediatric emergency medicine fellowship training of emergency medicine graduates

The establishment of pediatric emergency medicine as a subspecialty of emergency medicine has engendered the need for closer examination and development of guidelines for fellowship training. Core content and curriculum documents pertaining to fellowship training in pediatric emergency medicine for pediatric graduates have been published previously. However, the educational needs of emergency medicine graduates for such training are significantly different from those of pediatric graduates in several important respects. We believe that emergency physicians should take an active role in the creation and refinement of educational guidelines for fellowship training in pediatric emergency medicine for emergency medicine graduates. For this reason, we present a proposed core content outline in the hope that it will serve to foster this process.