Entrustable Professional Activities in Orthopaedics.


Journal

JB & JS open access
ISSN: 2472-7245
Titre abrégé: JB JS Open Access
Pays: United States
ID NLM: 101726219

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Date de publication:
Historique:
entrez: 31 5 2021
pubmed: 1 6 2021
medline: 1 6 2021
Statut: epublish

Résumé

An entrustable professional activity (EPA) is defined as a core task of a specialty that is entrusted to a trainee once sufficient competence has been reached. A group of EPAs reflects the activities that clinicians commonly do on a day-to-day basis. Lists of EPAs have been created for most medical subspecialties, but not orthopaedic surgery. The aim of this study was to create a peer-reviewed list of essential EPAs that a resident must perform independently before completing orthopaedic residency training. A focus group of 7 orthopaedic surgeons from the University of Toronto developed a comprehensive list of 285 EPAs. For each subspecialty group, the opinions of at least 15 academic and nonacademic surgeons, as well as subspecialty-trained and non-subspecialty-trained surgeons, were used. The modified Delphi method was used to rank EPAs on a five-point scale from not important to mandatory for a resident to competent before exiting training. Two Delphi rounds were used, using a threshold of >50% of surgeons considering the EPA as mandatory before being considered for the next round. A final list of EPAs was ratified using the focus group of academic surgeons involved in the study. Seventy-five (75) of 107 (70%) surgeons invited responded to the survey. Nearly half (129) of the 285 EPAs were discarded after the first round of Delphi. A further 118 EPAs were discarded after the second Delphi round, leaving 49 final EPAs, across 9 subspecialties in orthopaedic surgery. Expert consensus was used to create a list of EPAs considered mandatory for completion of resident training in orthopaedics in our province. The final 49 peer-reviewed EPAs will be a valuable benchmark in curriculum design and assessment in orthopaedic surgery in the competency-based era for other programs.

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BACKGROUND BACKGROUND
An entrustable professional activity (EPA) is defined as a core task of a specialty that is entrusted to a trainee once sufficient competence has been reached. A group of EPAs reflects the activities that clinicians commonly do on a day-to-day basis. Lists of EPAs have been created for most medical subspecialties, but not orthopaedic surgery. The aim of this study was to create a peer-reviewed list of essential EPAs that a resident must perform independently before completing orthopaedic residency training.
METHODS METHODS
A focus group of 7 orthopaedic surgeons from the University of Toronto developed a comprehensive list of 285 EPAs. For each subspecialty group, the opinions of at least 15 academic and nonacademic surgeons, as well as subspecialty-trained and non-subspecialty-trained surgeons, were used. The modified Delphi method was used to rank EPAs on a five-point scale from not important to mandatory for a resident to competent before exiting training. Two Delphi rounds were used, using a threshold of >50% of surgeons considering the EPA as mandatory before being considered for the next round. A final list of EPAs was ratified using the focus group of academic surgeons involved in the study.
RESULTS RESULTS
Seventy-five (75) of 107 (70%) surgeons invited responded to the survey. Nearly half (129) of the 285 EPAs were discarded after the first round of Delphi. A further 118 EPAs were discarded after the second Delphi round, leaving 49 final EPAs, across 9 subspecialties in orthopaedic surgery.
CONCLUSIONS CONCLUSIONS
Expert consensus was used to create a list of EPAs considered mandatory for completion of resident training in orthopaedics in our province. The final 49 peer-reviewed EPAs will be a valuable benchmark in curriculum design and assessment in orthopaedic surgery in the competency-based era for other programs.

Identifiants

pubmed: 34056510
doi: 10.2106/JBJS.OA.20.00010
pii: JBJSOA-D-20-00010
pmc: PMC8154482
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doi:

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Journal Article Review

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eng

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Copyright © 2021 The Authors. Published by The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery, Incorporated. All rights reserved.

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Auteurs

Adam Watson (A)

Royal Hobart Hospital, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia.
Women's College Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Timothy Leroux (T)

Women's College Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Toronto Western Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Darrell Ogilvie-Harris (D)

Women's College Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Toronto Western Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Markku Nousiainen (M)

Women's College Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Sunnybrook Health Science Centre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Peter C Ferguson (PC)

Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Lucas Murnahan (L)

Women's College Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Tim Dwyer (T)

Women's College Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

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