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Faculty Entrustment Of Students In The Core Clerkships: A Comparison Between The Longitudinal Integrated Clerkship And The Block Clerkship, Robert L. Trowbridge, Marybeth D. Ford, Jenny L. Carwile, Eliza R. Bullis, Robert G. Bing-You
Faculty Entrustment Of Students In The Core Clerkships: A Comparison Between The Longitudinal Integrated Clerkship And The Block Clerkship, Robert L. Trowbridge, Marybeth D. Ford, Jenny L. Carwile, Eliza R. Bullis, Robert G. Bing-You
Journal of Maine Medical Center
INTRODUCTION: Entrustable Professional Activities (EPAs) have been proposed for use in undergraduate medical education. The ability of faculty to entrust students with EPAs may differ between Longitudinal Integrated Clerkships (LICs) and traditional block clerkships.
METHODS: Participants were core clerkship faculty, 64 in a LIC and 31 in a sequential block clerkship. We administered a web-based survey at the end of the core clerkship year to measure preceptors’ typical entrustment (on a scale of 0–10) in students for the 13 American Association of Medical Colleges Core EPAs. We compared entrustment between LIC and block faculty using a Mann-Whitney test.
RESULTS:LIC …