Surgery goes EPA (Entrustable Professional Activity) - how a strikingly easy to use app revolutionizes assessments of clinical skills in surgical training.
Entrustable professional activity
Mobile application
Performance assessment
Surgical training
Journal
BMC medical education
ISSN: 1472-6920
Titre abrégé: BMC Med Educ
Pays: England
ID NLM: 101088679
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
19 Jul 2022
19 Jul 2022
Historique:
received:
17
10
2021
accepted:
07
07
2022
entrez:
19
7
2022
pubmed:
20
7
2022
medline:
22
7
2022
Statut:
epublish
Résumé
Entrustable Professional Activities (EPAs) are increasingly being used in competency-based medical education approaches. A general lack of time in clinical settings, however, prevents supervisors from providing their trainees with adequate feedback. With a willingness for more administrative tasks being low in both trainees and educators, the authors developed a radical user-friendly mobile application based on the EPA concept called "Surg-prEPAred". Surg-prEPAred is designed to collect micro-assessment data for building competency profiles for surgical residents according to their curriculum. The goal of Surg-prEPAred is to facilitate the performance and documentation of workplace-based assessments. Through aggregated data the app generates a personalized competency profile for every trainee. During a pilot run of 4 months, followed by ongoing usage of the application with a total duration of 9 months (August 2019 to April 2020), 32 residents and 33 consultants made daily use of the application as a rating tool. Every rating included knowledge, skills and professional attitudes of the trainees. Before the initiation of the App and after the 9-month trial period trainees and supervisors where both sent questionnaires to evaluate the user friendliness and effectiveness of the App. Five hundred ten App based assessments were generated. Out of 40 pre-defined EPAs, 36 were assessed. 15 trainees and 16 supervisors returned the questionnaires and stated the surg-prEPAred App as very valuable, effective and feasible to evaluate trainees in a clinical setting providing residents with an individual competence portfolio to receive precision medical education. The authors expectation is that the Surg-prEPAred App will contribute to an improvement of quality of medical education and thus to the quality of patient care and safety. In the future the goal is to have the App become an integral part of the official Swiss surgical curriculum accepted by the Swiss professional surgical society.
Identifiants
pubmed: 35854302
doi: 10.1186/s12909-022-03622-1
pii: 10.1186/s12909-022-03622-1
pmc: PMC9295378
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
559Informations de copyright
© 2022. The Author(s).
Références
Chirurg. 2021 Jan;92(1):62-69
pubmed: 33009593
Med Teach. 2015;37(11):983-1002
pubmed: 26172347
Adv Health Sci Educ Theory Pract. 1999;4(3):271-277
pubmed: 12386484
JAMA. 2009 Sep 23;302(12):1316-26
pubmed: 19773567
Ann Med Surg (Lond). 2017 Mar 06;16:40-43
pubmed: 28386393
Perspect Biol Med. 2009 Winter;52(1):90-102
pubmed: 19168947
Med Educ. 2020 Oct;54(10):878-887
pubmed: 32083743
Ann Surg. 2017 Oct;266(4):582-594
pubmed: 28742711
Acad Med. 2009 Mar;84(3):301-9
pubmed: 19240434
BMJ. 2014 Apr 25;348:g2909
pubmed: 24769452
Med Teach. 2017 Oct;39(10):1065-1073
pubmed: 28741446
Med Teach. 2012;34(10):787-91
pubmed: 22730899
Med Educ. 2004 Jun;38(6):587-92
pubmed: 15189254
Acad Med. 2020 Oct;95(10):1546-1549
pubmed: 32271227
Med Educ. 2005 Dec;39(12):1176-7
pubmed: 16313574
Med Teach. 2021 Jan;43(1):58-67
pubmed: 33054524
Med Teach. 2021 Oct;43(10):1139-1148
pubmed: 34344274
Acad Med. 2007 Jun;82(6):536-41
pubmed: 17525535
BMC Res Notes. 2015 Nov 06;8:653
pubmed: 26545859