Core Entrustable Professional Activities for New Pharmacy Graduates

The 2016-17 Academic Affairs Committee Standing Committee Report will contain mapping to the CAPE 2013 Educational Outcomes and the JCPP Patient Care Process as well as recommendations to the AACP for broad implementation.2,3 Entrustable professional activities are units of professional practice or descriptors of work, defined as specific tasks or responsibilities that trainees are entrusted to perform without direct supervision once they have attained sufficient competence. 4,5 EPAs are independently executable, observable, and measurable in their process and outcome. 4,5 Core EPAs for New Pharmacy Graduates are discrete, essential activities and tasks that all new pharmacy graduates must be able to perform without direct supervision upon entering practice or postgraduate training.