Competency based medical education (CBME) is an outcomes-based time-independent concept that is informing curricular innovation across the country and beyond. The roll out of Entrustable Professional Activities (EPAs) has incited discussion about workplace-based assessment in the context of entrustment.

Hauer et al. provide a model for how trust enables clinical participation through five factors:

  • The trainee earns trust as a result of competence and experience, attitudes and habits of mind, insight, self-confidence and willingness to ask for help
  • The supervisor entrusts trainee based on own clinical competence, assessment expertise, familiarity with clinical context, attitudes and propensity to trust, and accountability
  • The relationship between the supervisor and trainee entrustment is informed by shared expectations, amount of contact between supervisor and trainee
  • Entrustment is dependent on context – familiarity and affordances in the workplace, workload, timing of observation and workplace culture
  • Entrustment is dependent on task complexity, patient complexity, and risk

How has your institution used these domains to frame your assessment tools? Share your experiences on Twitter at #MedEdPearls and read prior posts on the Harvard Macy Community Blog!

Additional Resources:

Hauer KE, ten Cate O, Boscardin C, Irby DM, Iobst W, O’Sullivan PS. 2014. Understanding trust as an essential element of trainee supervision and learning in the workplace. Advances in Health Sciences Education 19:435–456.

Association of American Medical Colleges. 2017. Core Entrustable Professional Activities for Entering Residency.

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Author BIO 

Shanu Gupta, Bachelor Medicine, is a Medical Educator and Internal Medicine Hospitalist. Shanu currently holds a position as Assistant Professor at the University of South Florida. Shanu’s areas of professional interest include clinical reasoning, simulation and faculty development. Shanu can be followed on Twitter or LinkedIn.

 

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Jean Bailey, PhD – Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine
Carrie Bowler, EdD, MS, MLSCM (ASCP) – Mayo Clinic
Kristina Dzara, PhD, MMSc (Educators ’16; Assessment ’16; HCE 2.0 ’17) – Saint Louis University School of Medicine
Shanu Gupta, MD – University of South Florida and Tampa General Hospital
Jennifer Hillyer, PhD – Northeast Ohio Medical University College of Medicine
Larry Hurtubise, PhD (HCE 2.0 '16) – The Ohio State University
Anna Lama, EdD – West Virginia University School of Medicine
Machelle Linsenmeyer, EdD, NAOME (Assessment ’07) – West Virginia School of Osteopathic Medicine
Skye McKennon, PharmD, BCOS, ACSM-GEI – Elson S. Floyd College of Medicine, Washington State University
Rachel Moquin, EdD, MA – Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis
Stacey Pylman, PhD – Michigan State University College of Human Medicine
Leah Sheridan, PhD – The Ohio University Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine
Lonika Sood, MBBS, MHPE – Elson S. Floyd College of Medicine, Washington State University
Mark Terrell, EdD – Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine
Stacey Wahl, PhD – Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine