Professionalism through Entrustable Professional Activities: ABC of This Imperative and Inevitable Approach

Medical schools worldwide strive to produce future doctors, who are fit to practice, in other words, doctors who are equipped with professionalism attributes. The same is the demand from almost every walk of any society. “Assessment drives learning”, therefore, a valid and reliable assessment of core professionalism attributes of undergraduate medical students is vital to ensuring the overall satisfactory achievement of behaviours which best serve the society. In the recent past, the concept of entrustable professional activities (EPAs), as a method of assessment in competency-based education has begun to gain considerable significance and attention from medical educators, all over the world. Based on recent literature, this article offers ABC (Attributes of EPAs, Baseline EPAs, and Core Professionalism) elements for this new approach as well as practical and useful recommendations on how to integrate EPAs for assessment of professionalism of undergraduate medical students.