Third- and Fourth-Year Medical Student Self-Assessment in Entrustable Professional Activities

In an initial study to assess how well the curriculum prepares medical students to perform 13 entrustable professional activities (EPAs), 30 of 94 medical students (31.9%) completed self-assessments of their progress on EPAs at the end of their third and fourth years. Over the course of the fourth year, there was a significant increase in the level at which students assessed themselves for 11 EPAs, but the results suggest that medical students at this institution need more opportunities to participate in obtaining informed consent and additional training in writing orders/prescriptions and in performing the general procedures of a physician.