ReviewJAMA surgery2024
Entrustable Professional Activities in Surgery: A Review.
Review in JAMA surgery, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 25 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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25 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- [Patient safety in surgical residency training : A systematic review and meta-analysis].Chirurgie (Heidelberg, Germany) · 2026Pooled it
- Surgeon and trainee perspectives on intraoperative education: a systematic review and meta-synthesis.Medical education online · 2025Pooled it
- Teaching to the Standard: The Cancer Surgery Standards Program as a Framework for Surgical Oncology Training.Annals of surgical oncology · 2026Article
- Ruling the robot: a phase-based analysis of resident autonomy across core robotic general surgery procedures.Surgical endoscopy · 2026Article
- Consensus operational definitions of surgical meta-competencies for computer vision-driven performance assessment: a multi-institutional Delphi study.Surgical endoscopy · 2026Article
- Structural imbalances in EPA Perceptions: A multi-center study of cognitive differences between faculty and trainees in Chinese surgical residency training.Surgery open science · 2026Article
- Training Surgeons to Take the Me Out of Team.Journal of graduate medical education · 2026Article
- Development and validation of entrustable professional activities (EPAs) for rheumatology training in Brazil: the Reuma-EPA project.Advances in rheumatology (London, England) · 2026Review
- [Organize teaching in the surgical rotation -What practical experience do students starting the final year clerkship have?]Chirurgie (Heidelberg, Germany) · 2026Article
- Surgical Trainee Familiarity and Knowledge of the Commission on Cancer Operative Standards: A National Survey Study.Journal of the American College of Surgeons · 2026Article
- Complex General Surgical Oncology (CGSO) Entrustable Professional Activities: An Opportunity for Mixed-Methods Longitudinal Feedback.Annals of surgical oncology · 2026Article
- Two Roads to One Specialty: A 9-year National Comparison of 1902 Integrated and Independent Plastic Surgery Resident Case Logs.Plastic and reconstructive surgery. Global open · 2026Article
- American Foregut Society Education Committee: Development Of The Advanced Foregut Fellowship Program for Gastroenterology Trainees.Foregut (Thousand Oaks, Calif.) · 2026Article
- Remediation strategies for the struggling resident: technical skills and beyond.Surgical endoscopy · 2026Article
- Development of Entrustable Professional Activities for Complex General Surgical Oncology.Annals of surgical oncology · 2026Article
- Pre-anesthetic evaluation for gastrointestinal endoscopy in China: a national web-based questionnaire survey.BMC medical education · 2026Article
- Effect of Case-Based Learning combined with Flipped Classroom on residents' axillary vein puncture and catheterization ability.Frontiers in medicine · 2026Article
- Entrustment in Doctor-Patient Communication in Family Medicine Training - a Systematic Review of the Literature.Advances in medical education and practice · 2026Review
- Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practices Regarding Entrustable Professional Activities Among Newly Employed Nurses: A Multicenter Cross-Sectional Study.Journal of multidisciplinary healthcare · 2026Article
- [Entrustable professional activities-A paradigm shift in the surgical training from quantity to quality].Chirurgie (Heidelberg, Germany) · 2025Review
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Abstract
Importance: Entrustable professional activities (EPAs) compose a competency-based education (CBE) assessment framework that has been increasingly adopted across medical specialties as a workplace-based assessment tool. EPAs focus on directly observed behaviors to determine the level of entrustment a trainee has for a given activity of that specialty. In this narrative review, we highlight the rationale for EPAs in general surgery, describe current evidence supporting their use, and outline some of the practical considerations for EPAs among residency programs, faculty, and trainees. Observations: An expanding evidence base for EPAs in general surgery has provided moderate validity evidence for their use as well as practical recommendations for implementation across residency programs. Challenges to EPA use include garnering buy-in from individual faculty and residents to complete EPA microassessments and engage in timely, specific feedback after a case or clinical encounter. When successfully integrated into a program's workflow, EPAs can provide a more accurate picture of residents' competence for a fundamental surgical task or activity compared with other assessment methods. Conclusions and Relevance: EPAs represent the next significant shift in the evaluation of general surgery residents as part of the overarching progression toward CBE among all US residency programs. While pragmatic challenges to the implementation of EPAs remain, the best practices from EPA and other CBE assessment literature summarized in this review may assist individuals and programs in implementing EPAs. As EPAs become more widely used in general surgery resident training, further analysis of barriers and facilitators to successful and sustainable EPA implementation will be needed to continue to optimize and advance this new assessment framework.
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