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On May 27th, OSJSM held a Faculty Development Session on EPAs (Entrustable
Professional Activities) for the rotation directors in the
clerkship stage. Five distinguished professors were invited to
deliver the session. They are: Dr. Melissa Forgie, Vice Dean of the
University of Ottawa Faculty of Medicine (UO FoM), Dr. Donald
McKay, Associate Dean, Memorial University of Newfoundland Faculty
of Medicine, Dr. Gary Tithecott, Associate Dean, Schulich School of
Medicine & Dentistry Western University, and Dr. Ken Marshall,
Director of Accreditation UGME UO FoM. OSJSM rotation directors
from Renji Hospital, Ruijin Hospital, Shanghai Children’s Medical
Center and Shanghai Mental Health Center attended the training. The training is focused on the application of EPAs in clerkship
study. EPA is defined as the competency of learners to perform a
task or activity independently, and it’s developed from the
Competency-based Medical Education (CBME). Dr. Forgie started with
introducing briefly on the development course of EPAs, and then
about the clerkship timetable and requirements. As one of the first
medical schools in Canada to apply EPAs, Dr. McKay made a
presentation of Building Curricular Change and EPA Implementation, a very detailed introduction of the importance, application and
evaluation of EPAs. The rotation directors shared their understandings of EPAs and
their thoughts on applying EPAs to practice, and then discussed
with the Canadian professors about their questions. The attendees
benefited a lot from the training. And OSJSM will organize more
such trainings to better prepare the teachers for clinical
teaching.
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