title: Milestones and entrustable professional activities: The key to practically translating competencies for interprofessional education?
abstract: Competency-based education and practice have become foundational for developing interprofessional education (IPE) and interprofessional collaboration. There has been a plethora of competencies developed in these areas recently, both at individual institutions and nationally; however, their effective integration and thus potential has not been fully realized educationally. Milestones and entrustable professional activities (EPAs) are new concepts and assessment approaches from medical education that provide a way to functionally use and maximize competencies to ensure that competency is attained. They are applicable to learning activities both within the classroom and the clinic, as well as to lifelong learning. This paper defines and describes milestones and EPAs, considers the importance of their application to IPE, and summarizes a future research project that will identify EPAs for an IPE curriculum.
authors.affiliation: a Department of Speech-Language Pathology , University of Toronto , Toronto , ON , Canada and.
authors.forename: Susan J
authors.initials: SJ
authors.lastname: Wagner
authors.affiliation: b Centre for Health and Social Care Research, Kingston University and St. George's, University of London , London , UK.
authors.forename: Scott
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Reeves
mesh_terms: D003162:Competency-Based Education / Q000379:methods*; D004503:Education, Medical, Graduate / Q000592:standards*; D004521:Educational Measurement / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D007400:Interprofessional Relations; D011361:Professional Competence / Q000592:standards*; D011364:Professional Practice / Q000592:standards*; D016730:Program Development; D011787:Quality of Health Care
keywords: Assessment; Delphi approach; competencies; competency-based education; entrustable professional activities; interprofessional education; milestones