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ArticleAmerican journal of pharmaceutical education2023

The Need for Quality Assessment of Entrustable Professional Activities in Pharmacy Education.

Abigail T Elmes, Ara Tekian, Jennie B Jarrett

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Article in American journal of pharmaceutical education, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

6 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Abigail T ElmesUniversity of Illinois Chicago, College of Pharmacy, Chicago, Illinois aelmes2@uic.edu.
Ara TekianUniversity of Illinois Chicago, College of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois.
Jennie B JarrettUniversity of Illinois Chicago, College of Pharmacy, Chicago, Illinois.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Entrustable professional activities (EPAs) are specific tasks that a professional is entrusted to perform autonomously and, together, they define the scope of a profession. There are specific attributes that a task must possess both structurally and conceptually to be classified as an EPA. A high-quality EPA must be an observable, measurable, and professional task that requires training to execute, is fit for entrustment, and can be performed independently. In 2017, the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy (AACP) defined 15 core EPAs expected of a pharmacy learner upon graduation (Core EPAs). Despite acceptance and implementation by pharmacy schools across the country, the Core EPAs have not been evaluated using an objective assessment tool to ensure that they meet specific EPA quality standards outlined in the literature. This article describes existing objective assessment tools for EPA quality and highlights the importance of ensuring high-quality EPAs in pharmacy education, which would be an important step for the AACP Academic Affairs Committee to take to further develop EPAs for implementation.

Indexed as

Education, PharmacyInternship and ResidencyClinical CompetenceCompetency-Based EducationEducational MeasurementHumanscompetency-based educationentrustable professional activitiesquality assessment

Identifiers

PMID35351798
PMCPMC10159503

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