Development and consensus of entrustable professional activities for final-year medical students in anaesthesiology.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The transfer of classic concepts of competency-based medical education into clinical practice has been proven to be difficult in the past, being described as partially fragmented, misleading and inadequate. At the beginning of training, novice doctors commonly feel overwhelmed, overloaded and exposed to extreme time pressure. The discrepancy between expected and actual clinical competence of doctors at the start of their speciality training jeopardizes patient safety. The framework of Entrustable Professional Activities (EPAs) is a promising instrument to effectively integrate competency-based training into clinical practice and may help to close this gap and consequently to improve patient safety.

Methods

For anaesthesiology, we developed 5 EPAs for final-year me

SUBMITTER: Weissenbacher A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9052481 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature