• Acad Med · Jul 2015

    The Application of Entrustable Professional Activities to Inform Competency Decisions in a Family Medicine Residency Program.

    • Karen Schultz, Jane Griffiths, and Miriam Lacasse.
    • K. Schultz is associate professor and program director, Department of Family Medicine, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada. J. Griffiths is assistant professor and assessment director, Department of Family Medicine, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada. M. Lacasse is assistant professor and assessment director, Département de médecine familiale et de médecine d'urgence, Faculté de médecine, Université Laval, Quebec City, Quebec, Canada.
    • Acad Med. 2015 Jul 1; 90 (7): 888-97.

    AbstractAssessing entrustable professional activities (EPAs), or carefully chosen units of work that define a profession and are entrusted to a resident to complete unsupervised once she or he has obtained adequate competence, is a novel and innovative approach to competency-based assessment (CBA). What is currently not well described in the literature is the application of EPAs within a CBA system. In this article, the authors describe the development of 35 EPAs for a Canadian family medicine residency program, including the work by an expert panel of family physician and medical education experts from four universities in three Canadian provinces to identify the relevant EPAs for family medicine in nine curriculum domains. The authors outline how they used these EPAs and the corresponding templates that describe competence at different levels of supervision to create electronic EPA field notes, which has allowed educators to use the EPAs as a formative tool to structure day-to-day assessment and feedback and a summative tool to ground competency declarations about residents. They then describe the system to compile, collate, and use the EPA field notes to make competency declarations and how this system aligns with van der Vleuten's utility index for assessment (valid, reliable, of educational value, acceptable, cost-effective). Early outcomes indicate that preceptors are using the EPA field notes more often than they used the generic field notes. EPAs enable educators to evaluate multiple objectives and important but unwieldy competencies by providing practical, manageable, measurable activities that can be used to assess competency development.

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