• Douglas Grbic, Katherine A Gielissen, Vivian Obeso, Jonathan M Amiel, Amy Jayas, and Dorothy A Andriole.
• From the Association of American Medical Colleges, Washington DC (Grbic, Jayas, Andriole).
• J. Am. Coll. Surg. 2022 Dec 1; 235 (6): 940951940-951.

BackgroundThe Association of American Medical Colleges described 13 Core Entrustable Professional Activities (EPAs) that graduating students should be prepared to perform under indirect supervision on day one of residency. Surgery program directors recently recommended entrustability in these Core EPAs for incoming surgery interns. We sought to determine if graduating students intending to enter surgery agreed they had the skills to perform these Core EPAs.Study DesignUsing de-identified, individual-level data collected from and about 2019 Association of American Medical Colleges Graduation Questionnaire respondents, latent profile analysis was used to group respondents based on their self-assessed Core EPAs skills' response patterns. Associations between intended specialty, among other variables, and latent profile analysis group were assessed using independent sample t -tests and chi-square tests and multivariable logistic regression methods.ResultsAmong 12,308 Graduation Questionnaire respondents, latent profile analysis identified 2 respondent groups: 7,863 (63.9%) in a high skill acquisition agreement (SAA) group and 4,445 (36.1%) in a moderate SAA group. Specialty was associated with SAA group membership (p < 0.001), with general surgery, orthopaedic surgery, and emergency medicine respondents (among others) overrepresented in the high SAA group. In the multivariable logistic regression models, each of anesthesiology, ophthalmology, pediatrics, psychiatry, and radiology (vs general surgery) specialty intention was associated with a lower odds of high SAA group membership.ConclusionGraduating students' self-assessed Core EPAs skills were higher for those intending general surgery than for those intending some other specialties. Our findings can inform collaborative efforts to ensure graduates' acquisition of the skills expected of them at the start of residency.Copyright © 2022 The Author(s). Published by Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc. on behalf of the American College of Surgeons.

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