The Development of Entrustable Professional Activities for Competency-Based Veterinary Education in Farm Animal Health

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticleAcademicpeer-review

    Abstract

    Entrustable professional activities (EPAs) are professional tasks that can be entrusted to a student under a given level of supervision once he or she has demonstrated competence in these tasks. The EPA construct was conceived to increase transparency in objectives for clinical workplace learning and to help ensure patient safety and the quality of care. A first step in implementing EPAs in a veterinary curriculum is to identify the core EPAs of the profession. The aim of this study was to develop EPAs for farm animal health. An initial set of 36 EPAs for farm animal health was prepared by a team of six veterinarians and curriculum developers and used in a modified Delphi study. In this iterative process, the EPAs were evaluated until higher than 80% agreement was reached. Of 83 veterinarians who participated, 39 (47%) completed the Delphi procedure. After two rounds, the panel reached consensus. A small expert group further refined and reorganized the EPAs for educational purposes into seven core EPAs fo...
    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)218-224
    Number of pages7
    JournalJournal of Veterinary Medical Education
    Volume46
    Issue number2
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - May 2019

    Keywords

    • Entrustable professional activity
    • EPA
    • competency-based
    • farm animal health
    • student development
    • workplace learning

    Fingerprint

    Dive into the research topics of 'The Development of Entrustable Professional Activities for Competency-Based Veterinary Education in Farm Animal Health'. Together they form a unique fingerprint.

    Cite this