Core Entrustable Professional Activities (EPAs) and the Transition from Medical School to Residency: the Postgraduate Year One Resident Perspective.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

The Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) proposed thirteen core Entrustable Professional Activities (EPAs) that all graduates should be able to perform under indirect supervision upon entering residency. As an underlying premise is that graduates ready to do so will be better prepared to transition to the responsibilities of residency, we explored the relationship between postgraduate year (PGY)-1 residents' self-assessed preparedness to perform core EPAs under indirect supervision at the start of residency with their ease of transition to residency.

Methods

Using response data to a questionnaire administered in September 2019 to PGY-1 residents who graduated from AAMC core EPA pilot schools, we examined between-group differences and independent assoc

SUBMITTER: Obeso V 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8651854 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature