Entrustable professional activities (EPAs) are a recent enhancement to competency‐based
health professional education that describe the observable work done by a competent …

Medical education relies heavily on assessment formats that require raters to assess the
competence and skills of learners. Unfortunately, there are often inconsistencies and …

The meaningful assessment of competence is critical for the implementation of effective
competency-based medical education (CBME). Timely ongoing assessments are needed …

The way quality of assessment has been perceived and assured has changed considerably
in the recent 5 decades. Originally, assessment was mainly seen as a measurement …

Context Performance assessments, such as workplace‐based assessments (WBA s),
represent a crucial component of assessment strategy in medical education. Persistent …

Introduction Direct observation of clinical skills is a key assessment strategy in competency-
based medical education. The guidelines presented in this paper synthesize the literature …

Objectives Narrative comments are used routinely in many forms of rater‐based
assessment. Interpretation can be difficult as a result of idiosyncratic writing styles and …

Human judgement is widely used in workplace-based assessment despite criticism that it
does not meet standards of objectivity. There is an ongoing push within the literature to …

Background Given the complexity of competency frameworks, associated skills and abilities,
and contexts in which they are to be assessed in competency‐based education (CBE), there …

Validity is one of the most debated constructs in our field; debates abound about what is
legitimate and what is not, and the word continues to be used in ways that are explicitly …