Table 4 Mapping of Entrustable Professional Activities to a Subset of Competencies
→ Entrustable professional activities | 1. Collect the background information of patients and their families prior to the encounter | 2. Share information with all the members of the clinical team and provide bereavement care with a multidisciplinary | 3. Keep yourself neat | 4. Examine patients to confirm terminated vital signs | 5. Inform the family members about the bereavement in a straightforward manner | 6. Communicate with the family members in a compassionate manner | 7. Discuss autopsy with the attendant physician, when appropriate | 8. Issue a death certification, sharing the contents of the document with family | 9. Reflect on the entire process of your practice with mentors or colleagues, when appropriate |
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↓ Competencies | |||||||||
1. Recognize patients’ illness trajectory | 〇 | 〇 |  |  |  |  | 〇 | 〇 |  |
2. Recognize the importance of a multidisciplinary approach to support patients and their family members | 〇 | 〇 |  |  |  | 〇 |  |  |  |
3. Be aware of your emotional wellbeing |  | 〇 |  |  | 〇 | 〇 |  |  | 〇 |
4. Cope with your psychological distress properly |  | 〇 |  |  | 〇 | 〇 |  |  | 〇 |
5. Treat the patients and their family members with respect |  |  | 〇 | 〇 | 〇 | 〇 |  | 〇 |  |
6. Examine patients in a correct medical manner |  |  | 〇 | 〇 | 〇 |  | 〇 |  |  |
7. Be cognizant of the distress of the bereaved family members | 〇 | 〇 | 〇 | 〇 |  | 〇 |  | 〇 |  |
8. Communicate with compassion for family members’ emotional distress | 〇 |  | 〇 |  | 〇 | 〇 |  | 〇 |  |
9. Be cognizant of family members’ uncertainties regarding emotion or acceptance toward the situation | 〇 |  |  |  | 〇 | 〇 |  | 〇 |  |
10. Be cognitive to importance to behave according to individuality. | 〇 |  |  |  | 〇 | 〇 |  | 〇 |  |
11. Reflect on the entire process of your practice |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 〇 |