Developing entrustable professional activities for family medicine training in South Africa
Workplace-based assessment (WPBA) is becoming part of high-stake assessments in specialist training. Entrustable professional activities (EPAs) are a recent addition to WPBA. This is the first South African publication on developing EPAs for postgraduate family medicine training. An EPA is a unit of...
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| author | Louis S. Jenkins Robert Mash Ts'epo Motsohi Mergan Naidoo Tasleem Ras Richard Cooke Hanneke Brits |
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| description | Workplace-based assessment (WPBA) is becoming part of high-stake assessments in specialist training. Entrustable professional activities (EPAs) are a recent addition to WPBA. This is the first South African publication on developing EPAs for postgraduate family medicine training. An EPA is a unit of practice, observable in the workplace, constituting several tasks with underlying knowledge, skills and professional behaviours. Entrustable professional activities allow for entrustable decisions regarding competence in a described work context. A national workgroup representing all nine postgraduate training programmes in South Africa has developed 19 EPAs. This new concept needs change management to understand the theory and practice of EPAs. Family medicine departments with large clinical workloads are small, necessitating navigating logistical issues to develop EPAs. It has unmasked existing workplace learning and assessment challenges.
Contribution: This article contributes new thinking to developing EPAs for family medicine in an effort to understand more authentic WPBA nationally. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-149dc7f6220449eeb95ec4d5d2d1f3cf2025-08-20T04:03:13ZengAOSISSouth African Family Practice2078-61902078-62042023-02-01651e1e610.4102/safp.v65i1.56904308Developing entrustable professional activities for family medicine training in South AfricaLouis S. Jenkins0Robert Mash1Ts'epo Motsohi2Mergan Naidoo3Tasleem Ras4Richard Cooke5Hanneke Brits6Department of Family and Emergency Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Stellenbosch University, Cape Town, South Africa; and, Primary Health Care Directorate, Department of Family, Community and Emergency Care, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa; and, Department of Family and Emergency Medicine, George Hospital, Western Cape Department of Health, GeorgeDepartment of Family and Emergency Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Stellenbosch University, Cape TownDepartment of Family and Emergency Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Stellenbosch University, Cape TownDiscipline of Family Medicine, School of Nursing and Public Health, College of Health Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal, DurbanDivision of Family Medicine, Department of Family, Community and Emergency Care, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town, Cape TownDepartment of Family Medicine and Primary Care, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, JohannesburgDepartment of Family Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Free State, BloemfonteinWorkplace-based assessment (WPBA) is becoming part of high-stake assessments in specialist training. Entrustable professional activities (EPAs) are a recent addition to WPBA. This is the first South African publication on developing EPAs for postgraduate family medicine training. An EPA is a unit of practice, observable in the workplace, constituting several tasks with underlying knowledge, skills and professional behaviours. Entrustable professional activities allow for entrustable decisions regarding competence in a described work context. A national workgroup representing all nine postgraduate training programmes in South Africa has developed 19 EPAs. This new concept needs change management to understand the theory and practice of EPAs. Family medicine departments with large clinical workloads are small, necessitating navigating logistical issues to develop EPAs. It has unmasked existing workplace learning and assessment challenges. Contribution: This article contributes new thinking to developing EPAs for family medicine in an effort to understand more authentic WPBA nationally.https://safpj.co.za/index.php/safpj/article/view/5690entrustable professional activities (epas)family medicinespecialisttrainingsouth africa |
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| title | Developing entrustable professional activities for family medicine training in South Africa |
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