Entrustable Professional Activities (EPAs) are important work tasks that trainees need to be able to perform with supervision at a distance by the end of Basic Training.
By the end of Basic Training trainees need to be able to perform each EPA with supervision at a distance.
Each of the EPAs:
- is an exemplar, discrete task, separable from other tasks, which relates to patient care
- can be readily observed and assessed
- relates to safe healthcare in the workplace. There are consequences associated to this task that are not easily reversed.
EPA Behaviours
Each EPA includes the behaviours of a trainee who can perform the task with supervision at a distance and examples of behaviours of a trainee who is not yet ready to perform the task with supervision at a distance. The behaviours are categorised according to the domains of the RACP Professional Practice Framework, however each EPA should be performed and assessed as a complete task.
EPA
EPA 1
Clinical assessment
Clinical assessment
EPA 2
Communication with patients
Communication with patients
EPA 3
Documentation
Documentation
EPA 4
Prescribing
Prescribing
EPA 5
Transfer of care
Transfer of care
EPA 6
Investigations
Investigations
EPA 7
Acutely unwell patients
Acutely unwell patients
EPA 8
Procedures
Procedures