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ArticleAfrican journal of primary health care & family medicine2024

Development of entrustable professional activities for family medicine in South Africa.

Robert Mash, Louis Jenkins, Mergan Naidoo

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Article in African journal of primary health care & family medicine, 2024. 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

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

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

  1. Pooled it
  2. Clinical leadership development: Current practices and future directions for Southern African primary healthcare.South African family practice : official journal of the South African Academy of Family Practice/Primary Care · 2026
    Article
  3. Portfolio of learning in clinical training.South African family practice : official journal of the South African Academy of Family Practice/Primary Care · 2025
    Article
  4. Enhancing West African family medicine curriculum through entrustable professional activities.African journal of primary health care & family medicine · 2024
    Article
  5. Editorial: Innovative educational methods for Family Medicine and Primary Care training.African journal of primary health care & family medicine · 2024
    Article
  6. Developing an electronic portfolio of learning for family medicine training in South Africa.African journal of primary health care & family medicine · 2024
    Article
4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Robert MashDepartment of Family and Emergency Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Stellenbosch University, Cape Town. rm@sun.ac.za.
Louis Jenkins
Mergan Naidoo

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

South Africa is undergoing a significant shift towards implementing enhanced workplace-based assessment methodologies across various specialist training programmes, including family medicine. This paradigm involves the evaluation of Entrustable Professional Activities (EPAs) through comprehensive portfolios of evidence, which a local and national clinical competency committee then assesses. The initial phase of this transformative journey entails the meticulous development of EPAs rooted in discrete units of work. Each EPA delineates the registrar's level of entrustment for autonomous practice, along with the specific supervision requirements. This concise report details the collaborative effort within the discipline of family medicine in South Africa, culminating in the consensus formation of 22 meticulously crafted EPAs for postgraduate family medicine training. The article intricately outlines the systematic structuring and rationale behind the EPAs, elucidating the iterative process employed in their development. Notably, this marks a groundbreaking milestone as the first comprehensive documentation of EPAs nationally for family medicine training in Africa.

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Competency-Based EducationInternship and ResidencyClinical CompetenceCurriculumFamily PracticeHumansSouth Africaentrustable professional activitiesfamily medicinepostgraduateSouth Africatraining.

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PMID38572863
PMCPMC11019106

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