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Entrustable Professional Activity 10: Case Simulation and Assessment-STEMI With Cardiac Arrest.

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Introduction

Entrustable professional activities (EPAs) are units of professional practice defined as tasks or responsibilities that trainees are entrusted to perform unsupervised. AAMC Core EPA 10 is defined as the ability to "recognize a patient who requires emergent care and initiate evaluation and management." We designed a simulation scenario to elicit EPA 10-related behaviors for learner assessment to guide entrustment decisions.

Methods

This case presents a 61-year-old male with a complaint of feeling ill. The students need to diagnose an ST segment elevation myocardial infarction that leads to a pulseless ventricular tachycardia arrest. A simulation manikin is used, and students are assessed using a checklist. The tool is a set of critical actions that were proposed by a group of content experts, based on the following EPA 10 functions: recognizing unstable vital signs, asking for help, and determining appropriate disposition. In addition to case-specific behavioral items, an overall entrustment item was added to inform the entrustment decision.

Results

This case was implemented in a mandatory fourth-year clerkship for 7 years prior to its adaptation for entrustment on EPA 10. In recent experience from one institution, about 14% of students failed to meet entrustment. Students rated the experience as valuable (average 5.0, on a 5-point Likert scale) and thought that it would change their performance in a clinical setting (average 4.95, on a 5-point Likert scale).

Discussion

Faculty raters noted challenges regarding entrustment based on a single simulation and the implications that team role (supporting role vs. leader role) has on entrustment.

SUBMITTER: Kman NE

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6440413 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Entrustable Professional Activity 10: Case Simulation and Assessment-STEMI With Cardiac Arrest.

Kman Nicholas Edward NE Thompson Laura L Hess Jamie J Dora-Laskey Aaron A Sule Harsh H Moadel Tiffany T Yarris Lalena L

MedEdPORTAL : the journal of teaching and learning resources 20161223

<h4>Introduction</h4>Entrustable professional activities (EPAs) are units of professional practice defined as tasks or responsibilities that trainees are entrusted to perform unsupervised. AAMC Core EPA 10 is defined as the ability to "recognize a patient who requires emergent care and initiate evaluation and management." We designed a simulation scenario to elicit EPA 10-related behaviors for learner assessment to guide entrustment decisions.<h4>Methods</h4>This case presents a 61-year-old male ...[more]

PMID: 30984859

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Project description:Importance:Entrustable professional activities (EPAs) are an emerging workplace-based, patient-oriented assessment approach with limited empirical evidence. Objective:To measure the development of pediatric trainees' clinical skills over time using EPA-based assessment data. Design, Setting, and Participants:Prospective cohort study of categorical pediatric residents over 3 academic years (2015-2016, 2016-2017, and 2017-2018) assessed on 17 American Board of Pediatrics EPAs. Residents in training at 23 pediatric residency programs in the Association of Pediatric Program Directors Longitudinal Educational Assessment Research Network were included. Assessment was conducted by clinical competency committee members, who made summative assessment decisions regarding levels of supervision required for each resident and each EPA. Data were collected from May 2016 to November 2018 and analyzed from November to December 2018. Interventions:Longitudinal, prospective assessment using EPAs. Main Outcomes and Measures:Trajectories of supervision levels by EPA during residency training and how often graduating residents were deemed ready for unsupervised practice in each EPA. Results:Across the 5 data collection cycles, 1987 residents from all 3 postgraduate years in 23 residency programs were assigned 25 503 supervision level reports for the 17 general pediatrics EPAs. The 4 EPAs that required the most supervision across training were EPA 14 (quality improvement) on the 5-level scale (estimated mean level at graduation, 3.7; 95% CI, 3.6-3.7) and EPAs 8 (transition to adult care; mean, 7.0; 95% CI, 7.0-7.1), 9 (behavioral and mental health; mean, 6.6; 95% CI, 6.5-6.6), and 10 (resuscitate and stabilize; mean, 6.9; 95% CI, 6.8-7.0) on the expanded 5-level scale. At the time of graduation (36 months), the percentage of trainees who were rated at a supervision level corresponding to "unsupervised practice" varied by EPA from 53% to 98%. If performance standards were set to align with 90% of trainees achieving the level of unsupervised practice, this standard would be met for only 8 of the 17 EPAs (although 89% met this standard for EPA 17, performing the common procedures of the general pediatrician). Conclusions and Relevance:This study presents initial evidence for empirically derived practice readiness and sets the stage for identifying curricular gaps that contribute to discrepancy between observed practice readiness and standards needed to produce physicians able to meet the health needs of the patient populations they serve. Future work should compare these findings with postgraduation outcomes data as a means of seeking validity evidence.

Project description:BackgroundThe 13 core entrustable professional activities (EPAs) are key competency-based learning outcomes in the transition from undergraduate to graduate medical education in the United States. Five of these EPAs (EPA2: prioritizing differentials, EPA3: recommending and interpreting tests, EPA4: entering orders and prescriptions, EPA5: documenting clinical encounters, and EPA10: recognizing urgent and emergent conditions) are uniquely suited for web-based assessment.ObjectiveIn this pilot study, we created cases on a web-based simulation platform for the diagnostic assessment of these EPAs and examined the feasibility and acceptability of the platform.MethodsFour simulation cases underwent 3 rounds of consensus panels and pilot testing. Incoming emergency medicine interns (N=15) completed all cases. A maximum of 4 "look for" statements, which encompassed specific EPAs, were generated for each participant: (1) performing harmful or missing actions, (2) narrowing differential or wrong final diagnosis, (3) errors in documentation, and (4) lack of recognition and stabilization of urgent diagnoses. Finally, we interviewed a sample of interns (n=5) and residency leadership (n=5) and analyzed the responses using thematic analysis.ResultsAll participants had at least one missing critical action, and 40% (6/15) of the participants performed at least one harmful action across all 4 cases. The final diagnosis was not included in the differential diagnosis in more than half of the assessments (8/15, 54%). Other errors included selecting incorrect documentation passages (6/15, 40%) and indiscriminately applying oxygen (9/15, 60%). The interview themes included psychological safety of the interface, ability to assess learning, and fidelity of cases. The most valuable feature cited was the ability to place orders in a realistic electronic medical record interface.ConclusionsThis study demonstrates the feasibility and acceptability of a web-based platform for diagnostic assessment of specific EPAs. The approach rapidly identifies potential areas of concern for incoming interns using an asynchronous format, provides feedback in a manner appreciated by residency leadership, and informs individualized learning plans.

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Entrustable Professional Activity 10: Case Simulation and Assessment-STEMI With Cardiac Arrest.

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