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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

EPA 2
Communication with patients

EPA 3
Documentation

EPA 4
Prescribing

EPA 5
Transfer of care

EPA 6
Investigations

EPA 7
Acutely unwell patients

EPA 8
Procedures