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Entrustable professional activities (EPAs) are a popular topic within competency-based medical post- and undergraduate education programs in many countries. The wish to bridge the gap between well-elaborated competency frameworks and clinical practice in patient care has led to the creation of this concept. In teaching settings, supervisors decide when and for what tasks they entrust trainees to assume clinical responsibilities. Building on this concept, EPAs are units of professional practice, defined as tasks or responsibilities to be entrusted to the unsupervised execution by a trainee once he or she has attained sufficient specific competence. As such, EPAs are a means to translate competencies into clinical practice. EPAs are independently executable, observable, and measurable in their process and outcome, and therefore, suitable for entrustment decisions. In this webinar, Professor Olle ten Cate, Professor of Medical Education at the University Medical Center, Utrecht (NL), and Professor Reinoud Gemke, Professor of Pediatrics and Child Health at the VUmc University Medical Center, Amsterdam (NL) and (former) Chair of the Dutch Taskforce Optimization Postgraduate Paediatrics (TOP2020), illustrate how EPAs can be applied to ensure supervisors have confidence in their trainees to perform professional duties unsupervised and how this concept has been implemented as an assessment tool in post-graduate paediatric training programs in The Netherlands, the USA and Canada. This is the first webinar in our new Young EAP/EAP Educational Series.

Contact: L. Schrier

 

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Publications:
EPAs for Pediatrics: https://insights.ovid.com/pubmed?pmid=21169788
EPAs for General Pediatrics (American Board of Pediatrics): https://www.abp.org/entrustable-professional-activities-epas
EPAs for Pediatric Subspecialties (American Board of Pediatrics): https://www.abp.org/subspecialty-epas
EPAs for Developmental-Behavorial Pediatrics: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/jpc.12238
EPAs for Pediatric Gastro-Enterology (NASPGHAN): https://www.naspghan.org/content/132/en/training/opportunities/Entrustable-Professional-Activities

 

Video material (including English subtitles):
The experience of a pediatric resident with EPAs: https://www.medischevervolgopleidingen.nl/ondersteuningsmateriaal/movie-summative-entrustment-decision-making-residents-experiences
The experience of a pediatric resident with EPAs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3njA5vD8NbI&feature=youtu.be
Experience with EPAs in Pediatrics: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_tPfMVYqtc

Entrustable professional activities (EPAs) are a popular topic within competency-based medical post- and undergraduate education programs in many countries. The wish to bridge the gap between well-elaborated competency frameworks and clinical practice in patient care has led to the creation of this concept. In teaching settings, supervisors decide when and for what tasks they entrust trainees to assume clinical responsibilities. Building on this concept, EPAs are units of professional practice, defined as tasks or responsibilities to be entrusted to the unsupervised execution by a trainee once he or she has attained sufficient specific competence. As such, EPAs are a means to translate competencies into clinical practice. EPAs are independently executable, observable, and measurable in their process and outcome, and therefore, suitable for entrustment decisions. In this webinar, Professor Olle ten Cate, Professor of Medical Education at the University Medical Center, Utrecht (NL), and Professor Reinoud Gemke, Professor of Pediatrics and Child Health at the VUmc University Medical Center, Amsterdam (NL) and (former) Chair of the Dutch Taskforce Optimization Postgraduate Paediatrics (TOP2020), illustrate how EPAs can be applied to ensure supervisors have confidence in their trainees to perform professional duties unsupervised and how this concept has been implemented as an assessment tool in post-graduate paediatric training programs in The Netherlands, the USA and Canada. This is the first webinar in our new Young EAP/EAP Educational Series.

Entrustable professional activities (EPAs) are a popular topic within competency-based medical post- and undergraduate education programs in many countries. The wish to bridge the gap between well-elaborated competency frameworks and clinical practice in patient care has led to the creation of this concept. In teaching settings, supervisors decide when and for what tasks they entrust trainees to assume clinical responsibilities. Building on this concept, EPAs are units of professional practice, defined as tasks or responsibilities to be entrusted to the unsupervised execution by a trainee once he or she has attained sufficient specific competence. As such, EPAs are a means to translate competencies into clinical practice. EPAs are independently executable, observable, and measurable in their process and outcome, and therefore, suitable for entrustment decisions. In this webinar, Professor Olle ten Cate, Professor of Medical Education at the University Medical Center, Utrecht (NL), and Professor Reinoud Gemke, Professor of Pediatrics and Child Health at the VUmc University Medical Center, Amsterdam (NL) and (former) Chair of the Dutch Taskforce Optimization Postgraduate Paediatrics (TOP2020), illustrate how EPAs can be applied to ensure supervisors have confidence in their trainees to perform professional duties unsupervised and how this concept has been implemented as an assessment tool in post-graduate paediatric training programs in The Netherlands, the USA and Canada. This is the first webinar in our new Young EAP/EAP Educational Series.

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Core-MD Project

Coordinating Research and Evidence for Medical Devices (CORE-MD)

New ways to test high-risk medical devices.

 

Manufacturers of medical devices need to test their products before being allowed to market them. Specifically, they require clinical data showing their medical device is safe and efficient. In this context, the EU-funded CORE-MD project will translate expert scientific and clinical evidence on study designs for evaluating high-risk medical devices into advice for EU regulators. The project will propose how new trial designs can contribute and suggest ways to aggregate real-world data from medical device registries.


It will also conduct multidisciplinary workshops to propose a hierarchy of levels of evidence from clinical investigations, as well as educational and training objectives for all stakeholders, to build expertise in regulatory science in Europe. CORE–MD will translate expert scientific and clinical evidence on study designs for evaluating high-risk medical devices into advice for EU regulators, to achieve an appropriate balance between innovation, safety, and effectiveness. A unique collaboration between medical associations, regulatory agencies, notified bodies, academic institutions, patients’ groups, and health technology assessment agencies, will systematically review methodologies for the clinical investigation of high-risk medical devices, recommend how new trial designs can contribute, and advise on methods for aggregating real-world data from medical device registries with experience from clinical practice The consortium is led by the European Society of Cardiology and the European Federation of National Associations of Orthopaedics and Traumatology, and involves all 33 specialist medical associations that are members of the Biomedical Alliance in Europe.

EAP Representative:

  • BERTHOLD KOLETZKO
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