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    The Core Entrustable Professional Activities (EPAs) for Entering Residency

    The AAMC published new guidelines in May 2014 to provide expectations for both learners and teachers that include 13 Core Entrustable Professional Activities for Entering Residency (AAMC Core EPAs) that all medical students should be able to perform upon entering residency, regardless of their future career specialty. The guidelines were based on emerging literature documenting a performance gap at the transition point between medical school and residency training. Entrustable Professional Activities (EPAs) were chosen as the framework for the guidelines because they offer a practical approach to assessing competence in real-world settings and impact both learners and patients.

    Shortly after publishing these guidelines, the AAMC convened a 10-school pilot to test the feasibility of implementing the Core EPAs framework in undergraduate medical education. This 10-school pilot ended in 2021. The AAMC released the Core Entrustable Professional Activities for Entering Residency: Summary of the 10-School Pilot, 2014-2021 in September 2022. This monograph provides an overview of the pilot’s activities, the major outcomes of the pilot, and an annotated bibliography of the related peer-reviewed publications.

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