Core medical trainees working in a district general hospital find entrustable professional activities (EPAs) useful as a means of curriculum development.

There has been a paradigm shift from a traditional time- and process-based curriculum framework to a competency-based one in developed countries. Some authors have argued a shift to the concept of EPAs as a way of bridging the gap between competencies as a theoretical concept and its operation in real-life practice, given the tensions between both. EPAs, a core unit of work reflecting a responsibility that can only be entrusted upon someone with adequate competencies, have …