Competency Based Medical Education
Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada
RCPSC Document:
2019 Competency Based Medicine Transition to Discipline and Foundation EPAs
Foundations - 10 EPAs
FND EPA 1 - Providing routine prenatal care to a low-risk, healthy population
FND EPA 2 - Performing assessments of antenatal fetal well-being
FND EPA 3 - Assessing and providing initial management for patients with obstetric presentations
FND EPA 4 - Managing labour and childbirth
FND EPA 5 - Performing uncomplicated cesarean sections with a skilled assistant
FND EPA 6 - Providing early postpartum care
FND EPA 8 - Counselling and management for patients requiring family planning
FND EPA 9 - Providing consultation for patients with gynecologic conditions
FND EPA 10 - Performing minor gynecologic operative procedures
Foundations Special Assessment - 1 EPA
FND SA EPA - Performing critical appraisal of health literature and initiating scholarly projects
Core - 19 EPAs
C EPA 1 - Providing preconception and antenatal care to women with high risk pregnancies
C EPA 2 - Managing patients with acute conditions presenting in the antenatal and perinatal period
C EPA 3 - Managing complex vaginal deliveries
C EPA 4 - Performing complex cesarean sections
C EPA 5 - Diagnosing and managing post-partum complications
C EPA 6 - Performing obstetric and gynecologic ultrasound
C EPA 7 - Providing definitive management for patients with acute gynecologic emergencies
C EPA 9 - Assessing and initiating management for patients with reproductive challenges
C EPA 11 - Providing care for patients with pelvic floor dysfunction
C EPA 13 - Assessing and managing patients with gynecologic malignancies
C EPA 14 - Performing advanced hysteroscopy
C EPA 15 - Performing major vaginal and vulvar procedures
C EPA 16 - Performing major laparoscopic gynecologic procedures
C EPA 17 - Performing major open abdominal gynecologic procedures
Transition to Practice - 2 EPAs
TTP 1 - Managing complex patients, including those requiring longitudinal care
Transition to Practice Special Assessment - 2 EPAs