Competencies, Gaps, and Grants: Your Roadmap to Compelling CME Needs Assessments

Are you struggling to create compelling needs assessments that win over supporters in today's evolving medical education landscape?As a medical education grant writer or provider, you know that crafting targeted, data-driven needs assessments is crucial for securing funding and delivering impactful education. However, piecing together the right data and telling a persuasive story can be challenging, especially with the increasing expectations from supporters.1. Gain expert insights from Nathalie Turner MS, ELS, a nearly 30-year veteran in medical education, on what makes a needs assessment compelling to supporters.2. Learn the must-haves versus nice-to-haves in needs assessments and tips for balancing different stakeholder interests.3. Discover where needs assessments are heading in the coming years and how to stay ahead of the curve.Tune in now to hear Natalie share her wealth of knowledge and experience, empowering you to create winning needs assessments that secure funding and drive meaningful change in healthcare.Connect with NathalieDirector, Grant Development, Medscape EducationLinkedInTimestamps00:00 Introduction01:40 Introducing Nathalie and grant development04:03 How needs assessments have changed in the last 3 decades06:00 Working with the old model of a literature review10:00 Steps to gathering supporter preferences for grant proposals11:42 Must-haves versus nice-to-haves in proposals and needs assessments13:48 What gaps are15:20 Types of training and development the community needs to get even better at that investigative process17:46 Balancing interests of different grant proposal readers19:23 Challenges in compiling compelling needs assessment and grant proposals20:20 Future trends in needs assessments and grant proposals21:17 Nathalie's perspective on AI's role in writing needs assessments23:28 Her thoughts on what's important to the needs assessment process24:41 3 Key considerations for approaching needs assessments27:07 Key takeaways from today's episode you can put into action right awaySubscribe to the Write Medicine podcast!Don’t forget to subscribe to the Write Medicine podcast for more valuable insights on continuing medical education content for health professionals. Click the Follow button and subscribe on your favorite platform. Mentioned in this episode:Why Retreats Work: Disconnection, Body Wisdom, and the Science of Letting GoRewrite Your Power Retreat 2026This podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: Podtrac - https://analytics.podtrac.com/privacy-policy-gdrp