Using a Curricular Vision to Define Entrustable Professional Activities for Medical Student Assessment.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The new UCSF Bridges Curriculum aims to prepare students to succeed in today's health care system while simultaneously improving it. Curriculum redesign requires assessment strategies that ensure that graduates achieve competence in enduring and emerging skills for clinical practice.

Aim

To design entrustable professional activities (EPAs) for assessment in a new curriculum and gather evidence of content validity.

Setting

University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine.

Participants

Nineteen medical educators participated; 14 completed both rounds of a Delphi survey.

Program description

Authors describe 5 steps for defining EPAs that encompass a curricular vision including refining the vision, defining draft EPAs, developing EPAs a

SUBMITTER: Hauer KE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4539334 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature