Table 1 Inclusion and exclusion criteria. This table contains the article inclusion and exclusion criteria for this review. Abbreviations: EPA – Entrustable Professional Activities
Characteristics | Inclusion | Exclusion |
|---|---|---|
Article type / study design | Systematic reviews Scoping reviews Primary research studies Delphi studies Reviews of existing EPAs | Conference abstracts Blogs Letters to editor Reviews that do not contain an EPA |
Context | Clinical healthcare professions providing patient consultations in a post-professional context (post-licensure practice as a qualified clinician) Includes but not limited to the following post-professional clinical disciplines: medicine, medical resident / registrar, medical fellowships, medical specialties beyond the foundation medical qualification, physiotherapy, pharmacy, psychology, nursing, dentistry | Healthcare contexts without direct patient interaction eg. health administration Clinical healthcare context relating to pre-qualification Clinical healthcare or education during or relating to the entry-to practice stage |
Concept | Any clinical healthcare EPA with an advanced practice context Includes information sources describing but not limited to EPA: Design/construct, application, efficacy, critique, research and development | EPAs relating to pre-qualification or entry-to-practice stages Fragmented skills or competencies which are not contextualised within performance of a whole task Administrative/regulatory healthcare process Laboratory procedures |
Publication | No publication or language restrictions applied on the initial search | Non-English language studies were excluded from further review at the full text stage |