CBME – Using Entrustable Professional Activities to Define our Specialty and Address Challenges to Improve Child Health

Sunday, April 30, 2023

2:00 PM – 3:30 PM ET

Location: Convention Center: 150 B

CE: Live CME: 1.50

Selected By: APPD

Chair(s)

David Turner, MD (he/him/his)

Vice President, Competency-Based Medical Education
American Board of Pediatrics
Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States

Disclosure(s):

David A. Turner, MD: No financial relationships to disclose

Session

Description: Competency-based medical education (CBME) is an approach to education and assessment designed to meet the needs of our patients. These needs of our patients are defined using Entrustable Professional Activities, or EPAs, which are an important component of CBME that define the essential activities of the profession that must be performed (e.g., care for a well newborn; care for patients with common, acute problems). These professional activities reflect care that patients need. During training, curricula and assessment must focus on the ability to execute these EPAs with progressively less supervision, and ultimately as part of practice without supervision. The pediatrics and pediatric subspecialty communities, in partnership with the American Board of Pediatrics, have created EPAs that define the practice of general pediatrics and the subspecialties.

In this session, the general principles of CBME will be outlined and a leader from the American Board of Pediatrics will describe the process for developing and defining our specialty using EPAs. The session will include a description of how these EPAs can be used as a framework for lifelong learning from training through practice. The session will also include a description of how EPAs and CBME can be used to identify and address both individual and program gaps. The session will then conclude with a description of the development of a national curriculum focused on addressing educational gaps in behavioral and mental health based on the behavioral and mental health EPA developed by the community.

Learning Objectives:

Describe an Entrustable Professional Activity (EPA) and how EPAs define the practice of pediatrics and pediatric subspecialties.
Discuss how EPAs can be used to assess gaps and to develop individualized learning plans and curricular improvements.
Discuss the current gap that exists in behavioral and mental health education in pediatrics and how an EPA-based curriculum can help address this gap.

Presentations:

2:00 PM – 2:30 PM ET

Advancing competency-based medical education - Defining our specialty using entrustable professional activities
Speaker: David A. Turner, MD (he/him/his) – American Board of Pediatrics
2:30 PM – 3:00 PM ET

Assessing and addressing individual and curricular gaps using EPAs and the principles competency-based medical education
Speaker: Ariel Winn, MD (she/her/hers) – Boston Children's Hospital
3:00 PM – 3:30 PM ET

Addressing the behavioral and mental health crisis through development and implementation of a national curriculum
Speaker: Sue E. Poynter, MD, MEd – Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center