Abstract 13: Microsurgery Fellowship Entrustable Professional Activity Curriculum

Entrustable professional activities for gastroenterology fellowship training.

Office of Academic Affairs and Education and Department of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology, University of Connecticut School of Medicine, Farmington, Connecticut; Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California; Henry D. Janowitz Division of Gastroenterology, and The Brookdale Department of Geriatrics and Palliative...

Abstract: Academic Productivity of Microsurgery Fellowship Faculty

intRoDuCtion: The Hirsch index (H-index) is widely recognized as a reliable measure of academic productivity. While previous studies have applied the H-index to various surgical disciplines, none have analyzed microsurgery faculty. This manuscript aims to examine the applicability of the H-index to microsurgery fellowship faculty to determine it utility as a measure of academic output for this ...

Entrustable Professional Activities for Pathology

The ABCs of entrustable professional activities: an overview of 'entrustable professional activities' in medical education.

Consultants regularly need to decide whether a trainee can be entrusted to perform a clinical activity independently. 'Entrustable professional activities' (EPA) provide a framework for justifying and better utilising supervisor entrustment decisions for trainee feedback and assessment in the workplace. Since being proposed by Olle ten Cate in 2005, EPA are emerging as an integral part of many ...

Specific entrustable professional activities for undergraduate medical internships: a method compatible with the academic curriculum

BACKGROUND Competency-based education has been considered the most important pedagogical trend in Medicine in the last two decades. In clinical contexts, competencies are implemented through Entrustable Professional Activities (EPAs) which are observable and measurable. The aim of this paper is to describe the methodology used in the design of educational tools to assess students´ competencies ...