Entrustable Professional Activities in Graduate Medical Education in Psychiatry: A Promising Concept Entrustable Professional Activities (EPAs) are competency-based learning goals derived from observable clinical activities. In undergraduate medical education, they have now been adopted throughout Switzerland as part of the so-called PROFILES catalog (Principal Relevant Objectives and Framework for Integrated Learning and Education in Switzerland). The nine core EPAs to be mastered in undergraduate medical education can serve as a basis for introducing EPAs in graduate medical education as well. We will discuss this approach in the context of graduate medical education in psychiatry and psychotherapy from the perspective of different training contexts and a pilot example. In this position paper, we describe a promising opportunity to improve graduate medical training through the implementation of EPAs, both in terms of the quality of training and thus of patient care, as well as in terms of the attractiveness of the specialty for future residents.

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