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EPA required competences

Each Entrustable Professional Activity (EPA) has key competences that must be achieved and recorded in the VetGDP e-portfolio. These competences are drawn from the RCVS Day One Competences model.

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EPA diagram

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Continuous Learning

Service delivery overlaps veterinary capability and professional commitment.

Sustainable engagement overlaps professional commitment and personal leadership.

Emotional intelligence overlaps personal leadership and reflective relationships.

Relationship centred care overlaps reflective relationships and veterinary capability.

Veterinary capability

  • Clinical reasoning
  • Individual animal
  • One health/Public health
  • Animal population care and management

Professional commitment

  • Leadership/management
  • Business/finance

Personal leadership

  • Professionalism
  • Self-awareness
  • Self-reflection
  • Adaptability

Reflective relationships

  • Communication
  • Collaboration