Abstract
Over the past decade, competency-based medical education (CBME) has gained momentum in the United States to develop trainees into independent and confident physicians by the end of their training. Entrustable professional activities (EPAs) are an established methodology for assessing trainee development through an outcomes-driven rather than a time-based model. While EPAs have been utilized as an assessment tool for CBME in Europe and Canada, their validation and implementation in some medical specialties has occurred more recently in the United States. Pediatrics was the first specialty in the US to conduct a large-scale UME-GME pilot. Pathology Residency EPAs were published in 2018; however, implementation in training programs has been slow. We have piloted EPAs in our residency program's surgical pathology rotation and propose a unique set of 4 surgical pathology EPAs to track trainee preparedness for independent practice.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Article number | 100097 |
| Journal | Academic Pathology |
| Volume | 10 |
| Issue number | 4 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Oct 1 2023 |
Funding
The article processing fee for this article was funded by an Open Access Award given by the Society of ‘67, which supports the mission of the Association of Pathology Chairs to produce the next generation of outstanding investigators and educational scholars in the field of pathology. This award helps to promote the publication of high-quality original scholarship in Academic Pathology by authors at an early stage of academic development.
Keywords
- Competency-based medical education
- Entrustable professional activities
- Graduated responsibility
- Medical education
- Surgical pathology
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Pathology and Forensic Medicine