Fit for Service: Preparing Residents for Neurointensive Care with Entrustable Professional Activities: A Delphi Study.

Schmidbauer, Moritz L; Pinilla, Severin; Kunst, Stefan; Biesalski, Anne-Sophie; Bösel, Julian; Niesen, Wolf-Dirk; Schramm, Patrick; Wartenberg, Katja; Dimitriadis, Konstantinos (2024). Fit for Service: Preparing Residents for Neurointensive Care with Entrustable Professional Activities: A Delphi Study. Neurocritical care, 40(2), pp. 645-653. Springer 10.1007/s12028-023-01799-x

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BACKGROUND

Although the relevance of neurointensive medicine and high-quality training of corresponding physicians is increasingly recognized, there is high heterogeneity in the nature, duration, and quality of neurointensive care curricula around the world. Thus, we aimed to identify, define, and establish validity evidence for entrustable professional activities (EPAs) for postgraduate training in neurointensive care to determine trainees' readiness for being on-call.

METHODS

After defining EPAs through an iterative process by an expert group, we used a modified Delphi approach with a single-center development process followed by a national consensus and a single-center validation step. EPAs were evaluated by using the EQual rubric (Queen's EPA Quality Rubric). Interrater reliability was measured with Krippendorff's α.

RESULTS

The expert group defined seven preliminary EPAs for neurointensive care. In two consecutive Delphi rounds, EPAs were adapted, and consensus was reached for level of entrustment and time of expiration. Ultimately, EPAs reached a high EQual score of 4.5 of 5 and above. Interrater reliability for the EQual scoring was 0.8.

CONCLUSIONS

Using a multistep Delphi process, we defined and established validity evidence for seven EPAs for neurointensive medicine with a high degree of consensus to objectively describe readiness for on-call duty in neurointensive care. This operationalization of pivotal clinical tasks may help to better train clinical residents in neurointensive care across sites and health care systems and has the potential to serve as a blueprint for training in general intensive care medicine. It also represents a starting point for further research and development of medical curricula.

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