Entrustable Professional Activities (EPAs)- They’re Here, Now What

Behind The Knife: The Surgery Podcast

Education, Science, Health & Fitness, Medicine

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🗓️ 10 August 2023

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Entrustable Professional Activities, or EPAs, is a term you may have heard…or maybe not. EPAs represent a tectonic shift in surgical training and how residents will be evaluated. So, what are EPAs? How will they affect you? And what do you need to know? We sat down with Dr. George Sarosi, previous member of the ABS EPA Advisory Council and current General Surgery Residency Program Director at the University of Florida, to answer all of our questions now that EPAs are here.

Guests:
George Sarosi, MD- Professor of Surgery and General Surgery Residency Program Director- University of Florida
Patrick Georgoff, MD- Trauma Surgery and Surgical Critical Care- WakeMed Hospital; Co-director and Host of Behind the Knife
Jessica Millar, MD- General Surgery Resident- University of Michigan; Education Fellow- Behind the Knife
Daniel Scheese, MD- General Surgery Resident- Virginia Commonwealth University; Education Fellow- Behind the Knife

Helpful Websites:
Resources Page
- ABS EPA resources page for Programs and Trainees: https://www.absurgery.org/default.jsp?eparesources
- FAQs about EPAs and the ABS EPA Project (continuously updated so be sure to check back periodically): https://www.absurgery.org/xfer/epaprogfaqs.pdf
- ABS EPA Program Timeline for program engagement (includes webinars, suggestions for activities for programs to consider, and an expected timeframe for the distribution of additional implementation resources): https://www.absurgery.org/xfer/absepaprogtimeline.pdf
- Checklists for Program directors/Residency administrators/Faculty (https://www.absurgery.org/xfer/epaimplementationchecklist_programs.pdf) and for Residents (https://www.absurgery.org/xfer/epaimplementationchecklist_residents.pdf) to guide and sequence implementation priorities and timing

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0:00.0	Behind the Night, the surgery podcast, relevant and engaging content designed to help you dominate the day.
0:13.0	As a surgical resident, you are dedicated to mastering your craft.
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0:53.0	Download Unera today, that's UNIRA Unera.
0:57.0	Welcome back to Behind the Night.
0:59.0	This is Patrick George Off, and I'm here with BTK Education Fellows, Dan Shees and Jessica Malar.
1:04.0	We're here to talk about intrustable professional activities or EPAs.
1:09.0	This is a term that I think a lot of you may have heard about, or maybe not.
1:14.0	This is a tectonic shift in how we approach surgical training in the United States.
1:19.0	Not a lot to talk about here, so what are EPAs? How will they affect you?
1:23.0	What do you need to know? We're going to cover all that today.
1:26.0	So we know a lot of our listeners share these same questions, which is why we're so excited to welcome Dr. George Sorosi,
1:32.0	Professor of Surgery and General Surgery Residency Program Director at the University of Florida.
1:37.0	We've offered to shed some light on this new way of surgical education and assessment.
1:42.0	Dr. Sorosi is not only a surgeon and program director, but he was also one of the key leaders
1:46.0	for the American Board of Surgery, EPA Advisory Council, and really helped make EPA the reality.
1:51.0	Thank you so much for joining us today, Dr. Sorosi.
1:54.0	Thanks for my pleasure.
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