Medical School Graduates' Self-Assessed Skills in Core Entrustable Professional Activities for Entering Residency by Specialty

• In Event: Admissions and Enrollment Management in Health Professions Education

Abstract

To improve medical school graduates’ preparedness for the responsibilities they will assume in residency training, the Association of American Medical Colleges’ (AAMC) described a set of 13 Core Entrustable Professional Activities (EPAs) that all graduating medical students should be prepared to perform under indirect supervision, regardless of specialty. Using national survey data, we describe students’ self-assessed skills in Core EPAs and examine the extent of differences in self-assessed skills by specialty. A latent profile analysis revealed two groups – moderate and high agreement groups. The percent of respondents in each group differed across specialties, with other surgical specialties and emergency medicine relatively over-represented in the high agreement group and anesthesiology, psychiatry, and radiology relatively under-represented. Implications are discussed.

Authors

• Douglas Grbic, Association of American Medical Colleges

• Katherine Gielissen, Yale School of Medicine

• Vivian Obeso, Florida International University Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine

• Jonathan Amiel, Columbia University Irving Medical Center

• Amy Jayas, Association of American Medical Colleges

• Dorothy Andriole, Association of American Medical Colleges