Enhancing West African family medicine curriculum through entrustable professional activities

African Journal of Primary Health Care & Family Medicine

 
 
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Title Enhancing West African family medicine curriculum through entrustable professional activities
 
Creator Fatusin, Bolatito B. Dankyau, Musa Essuman, Akye Gyuse, Abraham N. Fatusin, Akinfemi J. Jenkins, Louis S.
 
Subject Family Medicinel; education curriculum; family medicine; medical education; workplace based assessment; West Africa; primary care; entrustable professional activities
Description The training of Family Medicine residents in the West Africa College of Physicians (WACP) has steadily upscaled to a competency-based approach over the years. The latest review of the curriculum (2022) includes self-directed online modules on clinical postings, health management, patient safety, quality assurance research and medical education among others. The operationalisation of the revised curriculum involves the use of workplace-based tools for formative assessments. However, some shortcomings of the traditional work place based assessment (WPBA) have been observed, including a lack of standardisation, time consumption, variability in the assessors’ judgements and systematic biases. These shortcomings can be mitigated through the adoption of entrustable professional activities (EPA) along with the use of WPBA.
 
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Date 2024-12-13
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion — Opinion paper
Format text/html application/epub+zip text/xml application/pdf
Identifier 10.4102/phcfm.v16i1.4691
 
Source African Journal of Primary Health Care & Family Medicine; Vol 16, No 1 (2024); 5 pages 2071-2936 2071-2928
 
Language eng
 
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https://phcfm.org/index.php/phcfm/article/view/4691/7796 https://phcfm.org/index.php/phcfm/article/view/4691/7797 https://phcfm.org/index.php/phcfm/article/view/4691/7798 https://phcfm.org/index.php/phcfm/article/view/4691/7799
 
Coverage West Africa 2024 Family Medicine Educators; Trainees; Trainers
Rights Copyright (c) 2024 Bolatito B. Fatusin, Musa Dankyau, Akye Essuman, Abraham N. Gyuse, Akinfemi J. Fatusin, Louis S. Jenkins https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
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