Developing Entrustable Professional Activities (EPAS) for House Officer to Practice Safely and Independently in Dentistry; A Qualitative Study Using Interpretive Paradigm

Entrustable Professional Activities (epas): the next Step.

A Patient-Centered Approach to Developing Entrustable Professional Activities.

PURPOSE The medical education community is rapidly accepting the use of entrustable professional activities (EPAs) as a means of assessing residents. Stakeholder engagement is advised in developing EPAs, but no studies have investigated the role of patient input. In this qualitative study, the authors investigated what patient input may add to designing a patient-centered EPA. METHOD The auth...

Entrustable Professional Activities for Pathology

Developing Entrustable Professional Activities for Entry Into Clerkship.

PURPOSE Despite the growing emphasis on early clinical experiences, preceptors still face challenges integrating preclerkship medical students into their practices. Entrustable professional activities (EPAs), which frame competencies in the context of clinical workplace activities, may provide explicit guidance on appropriate student roles and activities. This study aimed to develop and apprais...

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 ...