Using the Entrustable Professional Activities Framework in the Assessment of Procedural Skills.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The entrustable professional activity (EPA) framework has been identified as a useful approach to assessment in competency-based education. To apply an EPA framework for assessment, essential skills necessary for entrustment to occur must first be identified.

Objective

Using an EPA framework, our study sought to (1) define the essential skills required for entrustment for 7 bedside procedures expected of graduates of Canadian internal medicine (IM) residency programs, and (2) develop rubrics for the assessment of these procedural skills.

Methods

An initial list of essential skills was defined for each procedural EPA by focus groups of experts at 4 academic centers using the nominal group technique. These lists were subsequently vetted by representatives fro

SUBMITTER: Pugh D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5398142 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature