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Training in primary care paediatrics: The role of entrustable professional activities

Year: 2024

Type: article

Abstract: • Entrustable professional activities (EPAs) represent a bridge between a competency framework and the activities involved in daily clinical practice. • EPAs may improve the training and assessment of future healthcare professionals. • European Confederation of Primary Care Paediatricians (ECPCP) Education group designed a training model based on EPAs specifically for Primary Care paediatrics. • A training model based on EPAs may unify the training standards in primary care and community paediatrics. Primary care paediatrics is practiced throughout the countries of Europe with different structures of health care systems and identities of care providers. The best way to guarantee that paediatricians are competently trained and provide high quality care to children and adolescents in primary care is a flexible and comprehensive training program based on practice and demonstration of acquired competencies. Entrustable professional activities represent a significant step toward improving the training and assessment of future healthcare professionals. It may constitute a model that unifies the training standards in primary care and community paediatrics.

Source: Global Pediatrics

DOI: 10.1016/j.gpeds.2024.100230

Authors: C. Villaizán Pérez, M. Aparicio Rodrigo, F. Fehr

Institutions: Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Heidelberg University

Language: English

Topic: Innovations in Medical Education

Subfield: Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health

Field: Medicine

Domain: Health Sciences

SDGs: Good health and well-being, Quality education

Open Access status: gold

Estimated APC paid: $2,000