An Entrustable Professional Activity Addressing Racism and Pediatric Health Inequities.

ABSTRACT: Racism and discrimination are the root of many pediatric health inequities and are well described in the literature. Despite the pervasiveness of pediatric health inequities, we have failed to adequately educate and prepare general pediatricians and pediatric subspecialists to address them. Deficiencies within education across the entire continuum and in our health care systems as a whole contribute to health inequities in unacceptable ways. To address these deficiencies, the field of pediatrics, along with other specialties, has been on a journey toward a more competency-based approach to education and assessment, and the framework created for the future is built on entrustable professional activities (EPAs). Competency-based medical education is one approach to addressing the deficiencie

SUBMITTER: Unaka NI 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9647957 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature