Revisiting the Core Entrustable Professional Activities for Entering Residency

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ID21614830
AuthorsJonathan M Amiel (0000-0003-4027-6397, is associate professor of psychiatry, senior associate dean for curricular affairs, and interim co-vice dean for education, Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians & Surgeons, New York, New York; ORCID:., corresponding author), Dorothy A Andriole (0000-0001-8902-1227, is senior director, Medical Education Research, Association of American Medical Colleges, Washington, DC; ORCID:.), Diane M Biskobing (0000-0001-6178-4783, is professor of medicine and associate dean for pre-clinical medical education, Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine, Richmond, Virginia.), Delindus R Brown (0000-0002-5361-6664, Florida International University), David R Brown (0000-0002-0774-6660, is associate professor, chief, Family and Community Medicine, and interim chair, Humanities, Health, and Society, Florida International University Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine, Miami, Florida; ORCID:.), William B Cutrer (0000-0003-1538-9779, is associate dean for undergraduate medical education and associate professor of pediatrics, Critical Care Medicine, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee; ORCID:.), Matthew Emery (0000-0001-9125-0176, Michigan State University), Matthew T Emery (is associate professor of emergency medicine and medical director for simulation, Michigan State University College of Human Medicine, East Lansing, Michigan.), George C Mejicano (is professor of medicine and senior associate dean for Education, Oregon Health & Science University School of Medicine, Portland, Oregon; ORCID:.), Michael S Ryan (0000-0003-3266-9289, is associate professor of pediatrics and assistant dean for clinical medical education, Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine, Richmond, Virginia; ORCID:.), Jennifer L Swails (0000-0002-6102-831X, is associate professor of internal medicine, McGovern Medical School, University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston, Texas; ORCID:.), Dianne P Wagner (is professor of medicine, associate dean for undergraduate medical education, and interim senior associate dean for academic affairs, Michigan State University College of Human Medicine, East Lansing, Michigan.)
Year2021
Volume96
Issue7S
PagesS14-S21
Publication date2021-07-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueAcademic Medicine (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1040-2446 • E-ISSN: 1938-808X
PublisherOxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1097/acm.0000000000004088
PMID34183597
OpenAlexW3175333387
LanguageEN
Citations received11
References cited20

The Core EPAs for Entering Residency Pilot project aimed to test the feasibility of implementing 13 entrustable professional activities (EPAs) at 10 U.S. medical schools and to gauge whether the use of the Core EPAs could improve graduates’ performance early in residency. In this manuscript, the authors (members of the pilot institutions and Association of American Medical Colleges staff supporting the project evaluation) describe the schools’ capacity to collect multimodal evidence about their students’ performance in each of the Core EPAs and the ability of faculty committees to use those data to make decisions regarding learners’ readiness for entrustment. In reviewing data for each of the Core EPAs, the authors reflected on how each activity performed as an EPA informed by how well it could be assessed and entrusted. For EPAs that did not perform well, the authors examined whether there are underlying practical and/or theoretical issues limiting its utility as a measure of student performance in medical school

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