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Accuracy in Dental Medicine, A New Way to Measure Trueness and Precision
Published on: April 29, 2014
How Are Entrustable Professional Activities Shaping the Future of Dental Education in the United States?
Amanda Finger Stadler1, Douglas Kistler2, Reshma S Menon3
1Department of Periodontology, Endodontics and Dental Hygiene, Adams School of Dentistry, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA.
Abstract:
Entrustable professional activities (EPAs) represent tasks or responsibilities to be entrusted to the unsupervised execution by a trainee. This review describes the evolutionary state and current implementation of EPAs in American dental education, both on post-doctoral and pre-doctoral levels. Few residencies have incorporated the EPAs on the curriculum, and only one American dental school to date has graduated dentists under an EPAs-based curriculum. This process involved not only curriculum but structural changes and adaptations to the standards of the Commission of Dental Accreditation (CODA). This review also comments on a national effort to adopt EPAs as standard for dental curricula.
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