Understanding entrustable professional activities – Need of the hour - beginning in era of CBME – Part 1

Abstract

Entrustable professional activities (EPAs) has attracted much attention among medical educationists. Introduced in 2005 and in many countries programs are incorporating EPAs. This editorial is meant to introduce and explain the concept, and sensitize to EPAs. Competency-based medical education (CBME) plays an important role in current curriculum of National Medical Commission (NMC) for training of Indian Medical graduate (IMG). The concept of CBME is to ensure stages of training, with a focus on specific acquisition of competencies, which is measured by entrustable professional activities (EPAs) and milestones [1-2]

Keywords

• entrustable professional activities
• medical education
• cbme
• medical graduate