Development and inclusion of an entrustable professional activity (EPA) scale in a simulation-based medicine dispensing assessment

被引:10
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作者
Croft, Hayley [1 ]
Gilligan, Conor [2 ]
Rasiah, Rohan [3 ]
Levett-Jones, Tracy [4 ]
Schneider, Jennifer [2 ]
机构
[1] Univ Newcastle, Fac Hlth & Med, Sch Biomed Sci & Pharm, Newcastle, NSW, Australia
[2] Univ Newcastle, Fac Hlth & Med, Sch Med & Publ Hlth, Newcastle, NSW, Australia
[3] Univ Western Australia, Western Australian Ctr Rural Hlth, Nedlands, WA, Australia
[4] Univ Technol, Fac Hlth, Sydney, NSW, Australia
关键词
Pharmacist; Medicine dispensing; Entrustable professional activities (EPAs); Assessment; Simulation-based assessment; COMPETENCE; ENTRUSTMENT; PERFORMANCE; QUESTIONS;
D O I
10.1016/j.cptl.2019.11.015
中图分类号
G40 [教育学];
学科分类号
040101 ; 120403 ;
摘要
Background and purpose: Effective, safe, and patient-centred dispensing is a core task of community pharmacists. Entrustable professional activities (EPAs) offer a way of defining and assessing these daily practice activities. Although EPAs have become popular within competency-based medical education programs, their use is new to pharmacy education and assessment. Educational activity and setting: A simulation-based assessment framework containing a scale of entrustment was developed to evaluate the readiness of Year 4 undergraduate pharmacy students to safely manage the supply of prescribed medicine(s) in a community pharmacy. The assessment framework was piloted in a fourth year "Transition to Practice" course with 28 simulation-based assessments conducted. Findings: An entrustment framework was developed and implemented successfully with Year 4 undergraduate pharmacy students. The EPA for medicine dispensing integrates competency domains that include information gathering, providing patient-centred care, clinical reasoning, medicine dispensing, and professional communications. On a scale ranging from level 1 to level 5, the majority (73%) of entrustment ratings were level 2 or level 3; and of the students who achieved different ratings between clinical scenarios, 75% of students improved on their second simulation attempt. There was a strong correlation between the global EPA ratings with the total score achieved across the domains. Summary: Using simulation-based assessment, entrustment decision making can be incorporated in "entry to profession" undergraduate and postgraduate pharmacy courses to assess students' readiness to transition between learning and professional practice.
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页码:203 / 212
页数:10
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