Connecting undergraduate and postgraduate medical education through an elective EPA-based transitional year in acute care: an early project report.

ABSTRACT: Objective: A well-designed final year may ease the transition from medical school to postgraduate training, if it has enough depth to enable the acquisition of early specialty expertise, while keeping enough breadth to support the graduation as all-round physician. Aim of this article is to describe the design of a multidisciplinary dedicated transitional year (DTY) around the theme of recognition and initial treatment of vitally threatened patients. Methods: Undergraduate and postgraduate training directors from the departments of Anaesthesiology, Cardiology, Emergency Medicine, Intensive Care Medicine and Respiratory Medicine at UMC Utrecht and partnering hospitals have collaboratively developed and implemented a curriculum for a final year focusing on three entrustable pro

SUBMITTER: Jonker G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5704612 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature