Entrustment as Workplace-Based Assessment in Health Professions Education: Taking the Consequences of Assessment Seriously

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

Consequential Education Research was launched as AERA 2023’s overarching theme. While its focus for primary, secondary and higher education stresses the potential of education for societal change and the revaluation of ‘truth’ for the purpose of justice and equity in general(1), in the health professions the consequences of education pertain more specifically to the quality of individual and population health. A recent shift in thinking about the assessment of learners for the health professions is one toward the consequences of assessment for privileges in patient care.(2) Concepts of ‘entrustment’ and ‘Entrustable Professional Activities’ have become popular(3). They stress the importance of the responsibilities bestowed on those who have shown to be capable. This session highlights advances in this domain

Sub Unit

• Division I - Education in the Professions

Chair

• Olle ten Cate, UMC Utrecht

Papers

• Are We Trustworthy? Flipping Entrustment on Its Head - Huiju Carrie Chen, Georgetown University

• Does the Concept of Entrustment Offer Our Educational System a Reframing of Meritocracy? - Kimberly D. Lomis, American Medical Association

• Behaviors or Beetles? Exploring Direct Observation and Entrustment - Benjamin Kinnear, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine

• The Use of an Entrustment-Based National Assessment Tool: Opportunities and Challenges - Xiaomei Song, Case Western Reserve University; Derek J. Schaller, Central Michigan University

Discussant

• Olle ten Cate, UMC Utrecht