Surgery goes EPA (Entrustable Professional Activity) - how a strikingly easy to use app revolutionizes assessments of clinical skills in surgical training.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Entrustable Professional Activities (EPAs) are increasingly being used in competency-based medical education approaches. A general lack of time in clinical settings, however, prevents supervisors from providing their trainees with adequate feedback. With a willingness for more administrative tasks being low in both trainees and educators, the authors developed a radical user-friendly mobile application based on the EPA concept called "Surg-prEPAred".

Design

Surg-prEPAred is designed to collect micro-assessment data for building competency profiles for surgical residents according to their curriculum. The goal of Surg-prEPAred is to facilitate the performance and documentation of workplace-based assessments. Through aggregated data the app generates a personalized c

SUBMITTER: Diwersi N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9295378 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature