Teaching and assessing intra-operative consultations in competency-based medical education: development of a workplace-based assessment instrument.

ABSTRACT: Competency-based medical education (CBME) is being implemented worldwide. In CMBE, residency training is designed around competencies required for unsupervised practice and use entrustable professional activities (EPAs) as workplace "units of assessment". Well-designed workplace-based assessment (WBA) tools are required to document competence of trainees in authentic clinical environments. In this study, we developed a WBA instrument to assess residents' performance of intra-operative pathology consultations and conducted a validity investigation. The entrustment-aligned pathology assessment instrument for intra-operative consultations (EPA-IC) was developed through a national iterative consultation and used clinical supervisors to assess residents' performance at an anatomical pathology p

SUBMITTER: Gomes MM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8516791 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature