If you’re not quite sure what an EPA is and how you should work with EPAs in your daily clinical training, then you landed on the right page!

In these videos, you will learn about the EPA concept and how we can put it into practice in our daily work. We hope that you get started with this concept and realize that the benefits far outweigh the burden of introducing something new, both for the learner and the teacher!

You will see that the EPA concept puts into explicit words what you are already doing: Assessing a trainee’s daily performance and giving targeted feedback. What is new, however, is that the individual assessments turn into a visible learning curve over time and show the trainee’s strengths and areas of improvement.

We did 4 different instructive videos in four hospitals representing Switzerland’s four linguistic regions (English captions are available under ). We show you the inner structure of an EPA, how we make entrustment decisions and the assessment tools you can use. Last but not least, you will see a Competence Committee at work.

We hope you enjoy it!

Marco Mancinetti, Sonia Frick and Raphael Bonvin.