2016
DOI: 10.1097/acm.0000000000001204
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Toward Defining the Foundation of the MD Degree: Core Entrustable Professional Activities for Entering Residency

Abstract: Currently, no standard defines the clinical skills that medical students must demonstrate upon graduation. The Liaison Committee on Medical Education bases its standards on required subject matter and student experiences rather than on observable educational outcomes. The absence of such established outcomes for MD graduates contributes to the gap between program directors' expectations and new residents' performance.In response, in 2013, the Association of American Medical Colleges convened a panel of experts… Show more

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“…Interest in this project was so great that over half of the 141 Liaison Committee on Medical Education (LCME)-accredited schools applied to take part in the study. 21 Numerous opportunities exist in pathology to use the EPA concept to help standardize training expectations nationally.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…Interest in this project was so great that over half of the 141 Liaison Committee on Medical Education (LCME)-accredited schools applied to take part in the study. 21 Numerous opportunities exist in pathology to use the EPA concept to help standardize training expectations nationally.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…21,22 In their recent publication in Human Pathology , Powell and Wallschlaeger provide examples of possible EPAs for pathology, give a detailed description of performance of an autopsy as an example of an EPA, and advocate for the development of EPAs for pathology on the national level. 23 To this end, the Graduate Medical Education Committee (GMEC) goal was to develop practical EPAs for pathology graduate medical education encompassing primary anatomic and clinical pathology residency training.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…A population of students will demonstrate different learning rates for a given skill and will require different amounts of practice and feedback to obtain competency [32], [33]. Therefore, a flexible delivery of practice and feedback should help individualize training for each student’s needs.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The EPA concept is internationally recognized in postgraduate medical training, and also receives increasing attention in undergraduate medical education [9], [10], [11]. However, up to now, there have only been very few case studies on its implementation and the achieved effects [12], [13].…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%