EPA Work Sheet*
1. EPA Title
Improve care for a population of patients
2. Description of
the activity
The 21st century physician needs to understand population
health in order to optimize care. Populations can be defined
by sociodemographics, disease states, and/or active
practice patients to name a few. Caring for populations
requires a maturation in professionalization from a focus
on the physician-patient dyad to a recognition of
responsibility to populations, communities and society at
large. This activity requires that the physician utilizes
technology (e.g. databases) to seek and analyze data on
populations, develops improvement plans based on that
analysis, and documents the outcomes. The ability to
develop improvement plans requires competence in
risk/benefit and cost/benefit analysis.
__Patient Care
__Medical knowledge
_X_Practice-based Learning and Improvement
__ Interpersonal & Communication Skills
_X_Professionalism
_X_Systems-based Practice
_X_Personal and Professional Development
See attached mapping document
3. Link with
competencies
4. Critical Subcompetencies
5. Basis for formal
entrustment
decision
*Modified from the work of Olle ten Cate
Prompts for Items 2, 4, 5, and 6 above:
2. What are the functions required of the EPA?
4. What are the critical sub-competencies required for this EPA?
5. Who will be responsible for the entrustment decisions and what aggregate
performance level of the individual sub-competencies is required for entrustment?