USING ENTRUSTABLE PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES IN THE DESIGN OF THREE NEW HEALTHCARE UNDERGRADUATE PROGRAMS: BIOMEDICINE, NURSING AND PSYCHOLOGY

Authors

  • Alexandre Sampaio Moura Faculdade Santa Casa BH, Av. dos Andradas, 2.688, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
  • Renata Toscano Simões Faculdade Santa Casa BH, Av. dos Andradas, 2.688, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
  • Suelen Rosa de Oliveira Faculdade Santa Casa BH, Av. dos Andradas, 2.688, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
  • Valenir Dias Machado Corrêa da Costa Faculdade Santa Casa BH, Av. dos Andradas, 2.688, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
  • Lucimara Alves de Souza Faculdade Santa Casa BH, Av. dos Andradas, 2.688, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
  • Tatiana Martins de Paula Faculdade Santa Casa BH, Av. dos Andradas, 2.688, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
  • Gabriela Lazarini Prado Meireles Faculdade Santa Casa BH, Av. dos Andradas, 2.688, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
  • Bruno Nascimento Moreira Faculdade Santa Casa BH, Av. dos Andradas, 2.688, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
  • Rosa Malena Delbone Faculdade Santa Casa BH, Av. dos Andradas, 2.688, Belo Horizonte, Brazil

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.46827/ejes.v9i4.4250

Keywords:

competency-based education, entrustable professional activities, curriculum, biomedicine, nursing, psychology

Abstract

Entrustable Professional Activities (EPAs) can be defined as a unit of professional practice that can be entrusted to a trainee after they have obtained adequate competency. EPAs integrate multiple competencies from several domains and are very useful in designing competency-based curricula. Using EPAs to design medical curricula has been widely described, but their application to curriculum design of other health-related undergraduate programs is scarce. This manuscript critically assesses an educational planning experience of using EPAs to simultaneously design three healthcare undergraduate programs (nursing, biomedicine and psychology) at Faculdade Santa Casa BH, Minas Gerais, Brazil. We present the EPAs for each program, curricula frameworks, educational strategies, and assessment methods. Expert groups of professors and educational specialists defined the core professional activities that would be directly assessed and entrusted to trainees from the three different programs. The expert group then defined the required knowledge, skills, and attitudes for each EPA and selected the appropriate assessment tools to be used in entrustment decisions. The expected entrustment level for each training phase guided the course’s distribution of core and elective courses. The experience of designing a curriculum using EPAs was successful and helped focus on the core activities of each profession. It also provided an opportunity to reflect upon formative and summative assessments throughout the course bringing the challenge of reorienting our teaching practices and assessment approaches. Designing undergraduate curricula of health-related professions using EPAs is feasible and might help operationalize competency-based curricula.

 

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Author Biographies

  • Alexandre Sampaio Moura, Faculdade Santa Casa BH, Av. dos Andradas, 2.688, Belo Horizonte, Brazil

    Alexandre Moura has experience in implementing Entrustable Professional Activities in undergraduate and postgraduate educational programs. Alexandre is currently a member of the educational board and Rosa is the director at Faculdade Santa Casa BH (FSCBH). Both authors coordinated the planning of the three programs analyzed in this manuscript.

  • Renata Toscano Simões, Faculdade Santa Casa BH, Av. dos Andradas, 2.688, Belo Horizonte, Brazil

    Renata Simões is a coordinator of the Biomedicine, Nursing and Psychology programs at FSCBH, respectively. They have large experience in teaching and research and coordinated the expert groups that defined the EPAs and the frameworks for each educational program.

  • Suelen Rosa de Oliveira, Faculdade Santa Casa BH, Av. dos Andradas, 2.688, Belo Horizonte, Brazil

    Suelen Oliveira is a coordinator of the Biomedicine, Nursing and Psychology programs at FSCBH, respectively. They have large experience in teaching and research and coordinated the expert groups that defined the EPAs and the frameworks for each educational program.

  • Valenir Dias Machado Corrêa da Costa, Faculdade Santa Casa BH, Av. dos Andradas, 2.688, Belo Horizonte, Brazil

    Valenir Costa is a coordinator of the Biomedicine, Nursing and Psychology programs at FSCBH, respectively. They have large experience in teaching and research and coordinated the expert groups that defined the EPAs and the frameworks for each educational program.

  • Lucimara Alves de Souza, Faculdade Santa Casa BH, Av. dos Andradas, 2.688, Belo Horizonte, Brazil

    Lucimara Souza is an educational specialist at FSCBH. They were members of the expert groups and collaborated on the definition of the framework for the educational programs and helped to tailor the educational strategies and assessment tools for each program.

  • Tatiana Martins de Paula, Faculdade Santa Casa BH, Av. dos Andradas, 2.688, Belo Horizonte, Brazil

    Tatiana Paula is an educational specialist at FSCBH. They were members of the expert groups and collaborated on the definition of the framework for the educational programs and helped to tailor the educational strategies and assessment tools for each program.

  • Gabriela Lazarini Prado Meireles, Faculdade Santa Casa BH, Av. dos Andradas, 2.688, Belo Horizonte, Brazil

    Gabriela Meireles is an educational specialist at FSCBH. They were members of the expert groups and collaborated on the definition of the framework for the educational programs and helped to tailor the educational strategies and assessment tools for each program.

  • Bruno Nascimento Moreira, Faculdade Santa Casa BH, Av. dos Andradas, 2.688, Belo Horizonte, Brazil

    Bruno Moreira is the head of innovation of the Santa Casa BH group and collaborated in the development of the innovation axis in the curricula.

  • Rosa Malena Delbone, Faculdade Santa Casa BH, Av. dos Andradas, 2.688, Belo Horizonte, Brazil

    Rosa Malena Delbone has experience in implementing Entrustable Professional Activities in undergraduate and postgraduate educational programs. Alexandre is currently a member of the educational board and Rosa is the director at Faculdade Santa Casa BH (FSCBH). Both authors coordinated the planning of the three programs analyzed in this manuscript.

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