Online international courses: Ins and Outs of Entrustable Professional Activities
Online international courses: Ins and Outs of Entrustable Professional Activities
The Ins and Outs of EPAs course is designed to provide experienced educators and individuals having roles in curriculum development, coordination, and faculty development with hands-on experience to conduct workshops and courses focused on EPAs.
The three-day courses have been successfully conducted in 2018 and 2019 in the Netherlands, Singapore and Canada, and had been planned to be delivered at four locations at different times in 2020. All face to face courses had to be cancelled due to the COVID-19 outbreak. An online version of the courses was piloted in October 2020 and will be held four times in the first half of 2021.
Course overview uitklapper, klik om te openen
The course has four sessions and includes eight modules of 1'15'' hours each, supplemented with some optional Q&A hours, and is offered over a period of two to three weeks. Required homework takes about 4 hours per session, including reading and 2-3 EPA-clips of 15 minutes each. The high-intensity course has space for 20 participants and is supported by 5-6 international faculty members.
Download the 2021 course flyer
About EPAs
Entrustable Professional Activities or "EPAs" as they are commonly known have become an significant component of the design of competency-based education in health professions education. Many postgraduate medical programs and increasingly undergraduate medical programs worldwide are redesigning education and assessment procedures to incorporate EPAs in clinical training. Other health professions have explored the possibilities to use EPAs in their programs, such as nursing, pharmacy, veterinary medicine, physician assistant, midwifery, physical therapy and dentistry training.
Identifying suitable EPAs and finding consensus, adapting the objectives and programs of training, implementing new routines for education in the workplace, using entrustment decision making as an assessment approach, and faculty development to get everyone on board all require a deep understanding of the EPA concepts and skills and a toolkit of workshops and presentations, to be used at local schools and institutions.
The International EPA Course has a focus on these components of working with EPAs.
Faculty team uitklapper, klik om te openen
Involved in preparation and/or execution of the course
Olle ten Cate PhD, Josephine Boland EdD, Carrie Chen MD PhD, Fremen Chou MD, Robert Englander MD MPH, Stephen Gauthier, Sonia Frick MD, MD, Jacqueline de Graaf MD PhD, Reinier Hoff MD PhD, Adrian Marty MD, Eric Meyer MD, Severin Pinilla MD, David Taylor MD MHPE, Jean Timmerberg, PT PhD MHS OCS, Claire Touchie MD MHPE, Mabel Yap, MBBS PhD.
Course dates and application uitklapper, klik om te openen
All application forms will be collected and weighed by the course team. Applicants who have been accepted will receive a link for online payment by credit card. Final registration is contingent upon reception of the course fee. For course fees see the application form of the specific course.
September 2021
| Sept 3 | Sept 7 | Sept 10 | Sept 14 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Modules | 1 + 2 | 3 + 4 | 5 + 6 | 7 + 8 |
| Start CEST | 19.00 | 19:00 | 19:00 | 19:00 |
| End CEST | 21:45 | 22:45 | 22:45 | 22:45 |
| Start EST | 1:00p | 12:00 | 12:00 | 12:00 |
| End EST | 3:45p | 3:45p | 3:45p | 3:45p |
| Start Pacific T | 10:00a | 09:00a | 09:00a | 09:00a |
| End Pacific T | 12:45p | 12:45p | 12:45p | 12:45p |
Download application form - September 2021
November 2021
| Nov 5 | Nov 9 | Nov 12 | Nov 16 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Modules | 1 + 2 | 3 + 4 | 5 + 6 | 7 + 8 |
| Start CEST | 14:00 | 14:00 | 14:00 | 14:00 |
| End CEST | 16:45 | 17:45 | 17:45 | 17:45 |
| Start EST | 09:00a | 08:00a | 08:00a | 08:00a |
| End EST | 11:45a | 11:45a | 11:45a | 11:45a |
| Start Asia time | 21:00p | 21:00 | 21:00 | 21:00 |
| End Asia time | 23:45p | 00:45p | 00:45p | 00:45p |
Download application form - November 2021
February 2022
| Feb 4 | Feb 8 | Feb 11 | Feb 15 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Modules | 1 + 2 | 3 + 4 | 5 + 6 | 7 + 8 |
| Start CEST | 17:00 | 16:00 | 16:00 | 16:00 |
| End CEST | 19:45 | 19:45 | 19:45 | 19:45 |
| Start EST | 11:00a | 10:00a | 10:00a | 10:00a |
| End EST | 1:45p | 1:45a | 1:45a | 1:45a |
| Start Pacific T | 08:00a | 07:00a | 07:00a | 07:00a |
| End Pacific T | 10:45a | 10:45a | 10:45a | 10:45a |
Download application form - February 2022
July 2021 for Singapore participants
Participation on invitation
| July 13 | July 16* | July 21* | July 23* | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Modules | 1 + 2 | 3 + 4 | 5 + 6 | 7 + 8 |
| Start Singapore standard time | 20:00 | 19:00 | 19:00 | 19:00 |
| End Singapore standard time | 22:45 | 22:45 | 22:45 | 22:45 |
| Start CEST | 14:00 | 13:00 | 13:00 | 13:00 |
| End CEST | 16:45 | 16:45 | 16:45 | 16:45 |
*including one optional Q&A hour
June 2021 for Latin American participants [fully booked]
Partly in Spanish language, participation on invitation
| June 16 | June 18 | June 23 | June 25 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Modules | 1 + 2 | 3 + 4 | 5 + 6 | 7 + 8 |
| Start Bogotá | 10:00 am | 10:00 am | 10:00 am | 09:00 am |
| Start CEST | 17:00 | 17:00 | 17:00 | 16:00 |
| Start EST | 11:00 am | 11:00 am | 11:00 am | 10:00 am |
| Start SE Asia | 23:00 | 23:00 | 23:00 | 22:00 |
June 2021 [fully booked]
| June 3 | June 3 | June 10 | June 17 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Modules | 1 + 2 | 3 + 4 | 5 + 6 | 7 + 8 |
| Start CEST | 16:00 | 20:00 | 20:00 | 20:00 |
| Start EST | 10:00 am | 2:00 pm | 2:00 pm | 2:00 pm |
| Start SE Asia | 22:00 | 02:00 | 02:00 | 02:00 |
April 2021 [fully booked]
| April 7 | April 9 | April 14 | April 16 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Modules | 1 + 2 | 3 + 4 | 5 + 6 | 7 + 8 |
| Start CEST | 13:00 | 13:00 | 13:00 | 13:00 |
| Start EST | 7.00 am | 7.00 am | 7.00 am | 7.00 am |
| Start SE Asia | 19.00 | 19.00 | 19.00 | 19.00 |