Entrustable Professional Activities in Orthopaedics

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 ...

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...

Entrustable Professional Activities (epas): the next Step.

A primer on entrustable professional activities

Entrustable professional activities (EPAs) have become a popular topic within competency-based medical education programs in many countries and hundreds of publications within only a few years. This paper was written to introduce the ins and outs of EPAs. After a brief historical overview, the rational of EPAs, as a bridge between a competency framework and daily clinical practice, is explained...