Critical Thoughts About the Core Entrustable Professional Activities in Undergraduate Medical Education

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 ...

Core Entrustable Professional Activities for New Pharmacy Graduates.

Entrustable Professional Activities for Pathology

Undergraduate medical education: Thoughts on future challenges

BACKGROUND There is considerable uncertainty about the future of undergraduate medical education in the face of several important challenges. This paper highlights many of the complexities of the challenges facing medical school leadership today. DISCUSSION A major challenge facing medical education in the United States is the erosion of the clinical environment, the loss of clinical revenues...