Integration of Entrustable Professional Activities with the Milestones for Emergency Medicine Residents.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Medical education is moving toward a competency-based framework with a focus on assessment using the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education Milestones. Assessment of individual competencies through milestones can be challenging. While competencies describe characteristics of the person, the entrustable professional activities (EPAs) concept refers to work-related activities. EPAs would not replace the milestones but would be linked to them, integrating these frameworks. Many core specialties have already defined EPAs for resident trainees, but EPAs have not yet been created for emergency medicine (EM). This paper describes the development of milestone-linked EPAs for EM.

Methods

Ten EM educators from across North America formed a consensus working

SUBMITTER: Hart D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6324698 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature