Entrustable Professional Activities (EPAs) for Global Health.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

As global health education and training shift toward competency-based approaches, academic institutions and organizations must define appropriate assessment strategies for use across health professions. The authors aim to develop entrustable professional activities (EPAs) for global health to apply across academic and workplace settings.

Method

In 2019, the authors invited 55 global health experts from medicine, nursing, pharmacy, and public health to participate in a multiround, online Delphi process; 30 (55%) agreed. Experts averaged 17 years of global health experience, and 12 (40%) were from low- to middle-income countries. In round one, participants listed essential global health activities. The authors used in vivo coding for round one responses to develop init

SUBMITTER: Steeb DR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7899746 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature