Workplace-Based Assessments Using Pediatric Critical Care Entrustable Professional Activities.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Workplace-based assessment (WBA) is critical to graduating competent physicians. Developing assessment tools that combine the needs of faculty, trainees, and governing bodies is challenging but imperative. Entrustable professional activities (EPAs) are emerging as a clinically oriented framework for trainee assessment.

Objective

We sought to develop an EPA-based WBA tool for pediatric critical care medicine (PCCM) fellows. The goals of the tool were to promote learning through benchmarking and tracking entrustment.

Methods

A single PCCM EPA was iteratively subdivided into observable practice activities (OPAs) based on national and local data. Using a mixed-methods approach following van der Vleuten's conceptual model for assessment tool utility and Messick'

SUBMITTER: Emke AR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6699545 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature