• Andrea Louise Bramley, Colleen J Thomas, Lisa Mc Kenna, and Catherine Itsiopoulos.
• Senior Lecturer in the Department of Dietetics and Human Nutrition, School of Allied Health and Human Services, College of Science, Health and Engineering, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
• Nurs Health Sci. 2021 Mar 1; 23 (1): 148-156.

AbstractThe concept of Entrustable Professional Activities, recently pioneered in medical education, has emerged to support the implementation of competency-based education. Although competency-based frameworks are widely used in healthcare professional education to develop outcomes-based curricula, assessment of student competency in professional placement settings remains challenging. The novel concept of Entrustable Professional Activities together with established methods of competency assessment, namely e-portfolios and self-assessment, was implemented in the "[La Trobe University Dietetic program in 2015-2016. This study aimed to appraise the e-portfolio and evaluate the use of Entrustable Professional Activities to assess competence. A mixed-methods evaluation, using qualitative and quantitative surveys with follow-up structured consultations, was conducted with final year dietetics students and their supervisors. Dietetics students were comfortable with Entrustable Professional Activities and competency-based assessment, whereas supervisors preferred Entrustable Professional Activity based assessment. All stakeholders valued student self-assessment and the ongoing use of structured e-portfolios to develop and document competency. The use of structured e-portfolios, student self-assessment, and the emerging concept of Entrustable Professional Activities are useful tools to support dietetics student education in professional placement settings.© 2020 John Wiley & Sons Australia, Ltd.

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