Abstract

Purpose: To examine gaps and opportunities for involvement of librarians in medical education and patient care and improve the teaching and assessment of Entrustable Professional Activity 7 (EPA 7) -- the ability to form clinical questions and retrieve evidence to advance patient care.

Method: The Association of Academic Health Sciences Libraries (AAHSL) Competency-Based Medical Education Task Force surveyed all AAHSL member libraries in October 2016 on health sciences librarian awareness and involvement in teaching and assessing EPA 7.

Results: The survey response rate was 54% (88/164 member libraries). While 90% (n=76) of respondents were regularly engaged in teaching or assessing aspects of EPA 7 only 34 (39%) were involved explicitly in a Core EPA 7 project, 44% (15/34) of these projects were librarian initiated.

Conclusions: Involvement in teaching and assessment of EPA 7 is an untapped opportunity for librarians to collaborate in medical education and patient care. Although librarians are already deeply involved in teaching and assessment of EPA 7 related knowledge, skills, and behaviors, further librarian collaboration can help bolster the planning or updating of existing curricula and assessments of this entrustable professional activity.

Citation: Nicholson, J., Spak, J.M., Kovar-Gough, I. et al. Entrustable professional activity 7: opportunities to collaborate on evidence-based medicine teaching and assessment of medical students. BMC Med Educ 19, 330 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12909-019-1764-y

Link: https://bmcmededuc.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12909-019-1764-y