EQual, a Novel Rubric to Evaluate Entrustable Professional Activities for Quality and Structure

David R Taylor1, Yoon Soo Park, Rylan Egan

  • 1D.R. Taylor is associate professor, Department of Medicine, Queen's University School of Medicine, Kingston, Ontario, Canada. Y.S. Park is assistant professor, Department of Medical Education, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois. R. Egan is assistant professor and director, Office of Health Science Education, Queen's University School of Medicine, Kingston, Ontario, Canada. M.-K. Chan is associate professor, Department of Pediatrics and Child Health, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, and clinician educator, Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. J. Karpinski is associate professor, Department of Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, and associate director, Specialties Unit, Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. C. Touchie is associate professor, Department of Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, and chief medical education advisor, Medical Council of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. L.S. Snell is professor, Department of Medicine, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, and senior clinician educator, Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. A. Tekian is professor, Department of Medical Education, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois.

Summary

A new EQual rubric reliably assesses Entrustable Professional Activities (EPAs) in competency-based medical education (CBME), identifying those needing significant revisions to meet educational standards.

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