Entrustable professional activities (EPAs) in surgical pathology: implementation experience and longitudinal observations of resident development.

ABSTRACT: Entrustable professional activities (EPAs) have been implemented in various medical specialties, and the Pathology National EPA Working Group has piloted the implementation of four pathology EPAs. We recently published the development of EPAs within our surgical pathology rotation. Following a six-month pilot, a survey demonstrated that faculty and residents found the forms helpful and easy to use and easy to understand, and EPAs have been fully incorporated into our surgical pathology rotation. Here, we discuss our experience, challenges, and results of resident EPA performance for intraoperative consultations (IOC) and sign-out (SO) after 21 months of implementation. Between June 2022 and March 2024, 24 residents were evaluated by 13 faculty members, resulting in 136 IOC and 298 SO EPA f

SUBMITTER: Gama A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11541477 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Oct-Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature