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[Development of entrustable professional activities for 39 residency programs]
Emiliano Lopez1, M Ines Manrique1, M Paz Molina1
1Secretaría de Educación Médica, Facultad de Ciencias Médicas, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Introduction:
Entrustable professional activities (EPA) were developed to connect competencies with clinical practice and make them operational. These are tasks that can be entrusted to a trainee once he/she has obtained adequate competence to perform them, without supervision. By definition, residencies are the ideal setting for their implementation. However, one of the main challenges lies in the design and incorporation of EPA into current training programs. Through a collaborative effort between the Medical Education Department at Medicine University and Hospital de Clínicas, a pathway has been initiated for the design and incorporation of EPA. The objective of this study is to describe the process of developing professional profiles and EPA's titles for the 39 residency programs at Hospital de Clínicas.
Materials And Methods:
A team was formed between the Medical Education Department and Hospital de Clínicas. Using an eight-step procedure, professional profile and EPA for 39 residency programs were written and validated.
Results:
Professional profiles for 39 specialties and 655 titles for EPA, were written and published to incorporate them into residency programs, as a standard for their accreditation.
Discussion:
This work compiles the experience and communicates the progress towards the implementation of EPA for health residencies, in order to promote competency-based education and to improve the quality of postgraduate training programs.
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