Entrustable professional activities for Junior Brazilian Medical Students in community medicine.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Entrustable professional activities (EPAs) have been defined to promote the workplace participation of undergraduate medical students, generally in the context of high-income countries with a focus on the secondary and tertiary health care sectors. These EPAs have limited applicability to training and health care contexts in low- to middle-income countries that have a focus on primary health care, for instance, the context of community medicine. The purpose of this article is to report the process and results of defining EPAs for undergraduate medical training in a community health care setting.

Methods

A modified Delphi study was performed to develop EPAs for the training of medical students in community medicine during their first and second years of education a

SUBMITTER: Francischetti I 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9598029 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature