• David K Werho, Aaron G DeWitt, Sonal T Owens, Mary E McBride, Sandrijn van Schaik, and Stephen J Roth.
• Division of Pediatric Cardiology, Rady Children's Hospital, University of California San Diego, San Diego, CA.
• Pediatr Crit Care Me. 2022 Jan 1; 23 (1): 54-59.

ObjectivesDefine a set of entrustable professional activities for pediatric cardiac critical care that are recognized as the core activities of the subspecialty by a diverse group of pediatric cardiac critical care physicians and that can be broadly and consistently applied irrespective of training pathway.DesignMixed methods study with sequential integration of qualitative and quantitative data.SettingStructured telephone interviews of pediatric cardiac critical care medical directors at Pediatric Cardiac Critical Care Consortium centers followed by an electronic survey of pediatric cardiac critical care physician members of the Pediatric Cardiac Intensive Care Society from across the United States and internationally.SubjectsPediatric cardiac intensive care physicians.InterventionsNone.Measurements And Main ResultsTwenty-four of 26 eligible Pediatric Cardiac Critical Care Consortium medical directors participated in the interviews. Based on qualitative analyses of interview data, we identified an initial set of nine entrustable professional activities. Fifty-eight of 185 eligible physicians completed a subsequent survey asking them to rate their agreement with the entrustable professional activities. It showed consensus (> 80% agreement) with the entire initial set of entrustable professional activities, with greater than 96% agreement in most cases. The feedback from free-text survey responses was incorporated to generate a final set of entrustable professional activities.ConclusionsWe generated a set of nine entrustable professional activities, which we believe can be broadly applied to any physician training in pediatric cardiac critical care, irrespective of individual training pathway. Next steps include incorporation of these entrustable professional activities into curriculum design and trainee assessment tools.Copyright © 2021 by the Society of Critical Care Medicine and the World Federation of Pediatric Intensive and Critical Care Societies.

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