Entrustable Professional Activities

Entrustable Professional Activities (EPAs) outline the essential work tasks trainees need to be able to perform in the workplace.

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Team leadership

Lead a team of health professionals
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Supervision and teaching

Supervise and teach professional colleagues
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Quality improvement

Identify and address failures in health care delivery
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Communication with patients

Discuss diagnoses and management plans with patients
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Assessment and treatment planning

Evaluate patients using a comprehensive addiction medicine assessment
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Acute withdrawal management

Diagnose and manage acute substance withdrawal
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Prescribing

Prescribe therapies and develop management plans tailored to patients’ needs
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Managing substance use in pregnancy

Manage substance use during pregnancy using a harm minimisation and multidisciplinary framework
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Undertaking consultation-liaison work

Advise other health professionals who are providing care for people using substances or with addictive disorders

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Clinic management

Manage an outpatient clinic