Towards a flexible and personalised development of veterinarians and veterinary nurses working in a companion animal referral care setting.

ABSTRACT: In the Netherlands, the demand for veterinarians and veterinary nurses (VNs) working within referral care is rapidly growing and currently exceeds the amount of available board-certified specialists. Simultaneously, a transparent structure to guide training and development and to assess quality of non-specialist veterinarians and VNs working in a referral setting is lacking. In response, we developed learning pathways guided by an entrustable professional activity (EPA) framework and programmatic assessment to support personalised development and competence of veterinarians and VNs working in referral settings. Between 4 and 35 EPAs varying per discipline (n = 11) were developed. To date, 20 trainees across five disciplines have been entrusted. Trainees from these learning pathways have pr

SUBMITTER: Favier R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11217593 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature