Entrustment in physician-patient communication: a modified Delphi study using the EPA approach.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Competency based curricula across the globe stress on the importance of effective physician patient communication. A variety of courses have been used to train physicians for this purpose. However, few of them link competencies with practice resulting in confusions in implementation and assessment. This issue can be resolved by treating certain specific patient communication related tasks as acts of entrustment or entrustable professional activities (EPAs). In this study, we aimed to define a competency-based framework for assessing patient physician communication using the language of EPAs.

Methods

A modified Delphi study was conducted in three stages. The first stage was an extensive literature review to identify and elaborate communication related tasks which c

SUBMITTER: Younas A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8454034 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature