How an EPA-based curriculum supports professional identity formation.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Entrustable professional activities (EPAs) are widely used in medical education, and they might be an important incentive to stimulate professional identity formation (PIF) of medical students, by actively encouraging participation in the workplace. The goal of this study was to explore the effects of an EPA-based curriculum on the PIF of medical students in undergraduate curricula.

Methods

In this study at the Radboud University Medical Center in Nijmegen, the Netherlands, the authors interviewed twenty-one medical students in three focus group interviews (November 2019), and conducted a thematic analysis based on both the synthesizing concepts PIF, communities of practice and EPAs, and newly defined themes.

Results

Four central themes proved crucial for u

SUBMITTER: Bremer AE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8781044 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature