A systematic review of 7 years of research on entrustable professional activities in graduate medical education, 2011–2018

E O'Dowd, S Lydon, P O'Connor, C Madden… - Medical …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose This review aimed to synthesise some of the extant work on the use of entrustable
professional activities (EPA s) for postgraduate physicians, to assess the quality of the work …

Assessing trainees and making entrustment decisions: on the nature and use of entrustment-supervision scales

O Ten Cate, A Schwartz, HC Chen - Academic Medicine, 2020 - journals.lww.com
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Trainees and Making Entrustment Decisions: On the Nature and Use of Entrustment-Supervision …

The power of subjectivity in the assessment of medical trainees

O Ten Cate, G Regehr - Academic Medicine, 2019 - journals.lww.com
Objectivity in the assessment of students and trainees has been a hallmark of quality since
the introduction of multiple-choice items in the 1960s. In medical education, this has …

[HTML][HTML] Entrustable professional activities in orthopaedics

A Watson, T Leroux, D Ogilvie-Harris… - JBJS Open …, 2021 - journals.lww.com
Background: An entrustable professional activity (EPA) is defined as a core task of a
specialty that is entrusted to a trainee once sufficient competence has been reached. A …

Envisioning a true continuum of competency-based medical education, training, and practice

O Ten Cate, C Carraccio - Academic medicine, 2019 - journals.lww.com
The existing structure of physician education has developed in siloed stages, with
consecutive degrees and certifications and progressively longer training programs. As …

Longitudinal assessment of resident performance using entrustable professional activities

DJ Schumacher, DC West, A Schwartz, ST Li… - JAMA network …, 2020 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Entrustable professional activities (EPAs) are an emerging workplace-based,
patient-oriented assessment approach with limited empirical evidence. Objective To …

Development and pilot testing of entrustable professional activities for US anesthesiology residency training

GE Woodworth, AP Marty, PP Tanaka… - Anesthesia & …, 2021 - journals.lww.com
BACKGROUND: Modern medical education requires frequent competency assessment. The
Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) provides a descriptive …

Tensions in assessment: The realities of entrustment in internal medicine

L Melvin, J Rassos, L Stroud, S Ginsburg - Academic Medicine, 2020 - journals.lww.com
Purpose A key unit of assessment in competency-based medical education (CBME) is the
entrustable professional activity. The variations in how entrustment is perceived and enacted …

Continued supervision for the common pediatric subspecialty entrustable professional activities may be needed following fellowship graduation

DA Turner, A Schwartz, C Carraccio, B Herman… - Academic …, 2021 - journals.lww.com
Purpose Entrustable professional activities (EPAs) are one approach to competency-based
medical education (CBME), and 7 EPAs have been developed that address content relevant …

A reliability analysis of entrustment-derived workplace-based assessments

M Kelleher, B Kinnear, D Sall, D Schumacher… - Academic …, 2020 - journals.lww.com
Purpose To examine the reliability and attributable facets of variance within an entrustment-
derived workplace-based assessment system. Method Faculty at the University of Cincinnati …