Entrustable Professional Activities: An Analysis of Faculty Time, Trainee Perspectives, and Actionability

Abstract

The Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada introduced Competence by Design (CBD) as an educational model along with Entrustable Professional Activities (EPAs) as markers of achievement that could be directly observed on a frequent basis. In 2017, the University of Calgary Internal Medicine (IM) program piloted CBD. The purpose of this study was to (1) assess whether written feedback from EPAs were actionable, valuable, and disruptive to workflow and (2) assess the time required to complete an EPA.