Building a competency-based workplace curriculum around entrustable professional activities: The case of physician assistant training
Medical TeacherPublished 20 September 2010
Hanneke Mulder, Olle ten Cate, Rieneke Daalder, Josephine Berkvens
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A practical model, based on the concept of entrustable professional activities (EPAs), to make this translation of competency-based medical education to the clinical work floor, derived from curriculum building for physician assistants (PAs).
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The model may also be transferred to other domains of clinical training, among which postgraduate training for medical specialties.
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