Entrustable professional activities and facets of competence in a simulated workplace-based assessment for advanced medical students
Published in Medical Teacher, 2020
Recommended citation: Fincke, F., Prediger, S., Schick, K., Fürstenberg, S., Spychala, N., Berberat, P. O., Harendza, S., & Kadmon, M. (2020). Entrustable professional activities and facets of competence in a simulated workplace-based assessment for advanced medical students. Medical Teacher, 42(9), 1019-1026. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/0142159X.2020.1779204
In this study, we investigated how the facets of competence that clinician raters perceive in a trainee relate to their entrustment decisions, that is, their decisions about how much supervision a trainee needs for a given professional activity. Sixty-seven advanced medical students took part in an assessment simulating the first day of a resident physician. We found a positive correlation between competence and entrustment scores, with a different correlation pattern for each activity, suggesting that each professional activity encompasses a different set of competences.