Describe the terms epa in connection with competency
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By "EPAs" I believe you mean "entrustable professional activities". A concise description of these and their relation to competencies is given by Olle ten Cate, who I believe originally used the term EPAs. I have attached it, and it can be found easily on the internet. The core of the notion is that as one develops competence in various areas, there are different levels of competence ranging from novice to expert. Along the way, there is a point where a learner can be trusted to have the knowledge and skill to carry out a particular activity. So, EPAs are compatible with, grow out of, the notion of competence.
There is a very nice taxonomy of competencies in medical education that has been put together by some people at the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC). I'm attaching their paper (Englander et al, Academic Medicine, August 2013), and one can see from it that there are many different areas in which it is desirable and usually essential for medical students to develop competence.
It is great to know from the first answer to your question that there are multiple uses of EPA and that EPAS is different from EPAs. That isn't surprising. Often an acronym has multiple meanings, even in the same general field such as health professions education.
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