Nuts and Bolts of Entrustable Professional Activities
Journal of Graduate Medical EducationPublished 1 March 2013Open access
Olle ten Cate
Citations933
SJR quartileQ1
SJR score1.14
SNIP1.68
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The entrustable professional activity (EPA) concept allows faculty to make competency-based decisions on the level of supervision required by trainees, addressing the concern that competency frameworks would otherwise be too theoretical to be useful for training and assessment in daily practice.
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