EPA's Silver Anniversary

Happy Silver Anniversary, AI!

Happy Silver Anniversary, Artificial Intelligence! Twenty-five years is not long in the history of a science—long enough to achieve, short enough to remember. Your esteemed founders are still around—vigorous, not so young anymore. Out of cybernetics you came, and information-theoretic psychology. You were born in the early days of modern computing, on hot, bulky hardware with names few now reme...

The silver anniversary of the Chernobyl accident

ASNR: the silver anniversary. Neuroradiology: the next 25 years.

The President of the American Society of Neuroradiology (ASNR), Derek Harwood-Nash, asked me as founder of the Society to write an essay on the occasion of its 25th anniversary. I am extremely happy and highly honored to respond to this request but wonder if I can do justice to such an important occasion . The founding of the ASNR in 1962 was an important step in the development of neuroradiolo...

Entrustable Professional Activities (epas): the next Step.

Experiences with EPAs, potential benefits and pitfalls.

Reforms in postgraduate medical education (PGME) exposed a gap between educational theory and clinical practice. Entrustable Professional Activities (EPAs) were introduced to assist clinicians in bridging this gap and to create better consonance between the intended and the enacted curriculum. In this viewpoint paper, we discuss the potential and the pitfalls of using EPAs in PGME. EPAs promise...