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Entrustable Professional Activities: required competences
To practice veterinary medicine effectively, you need competencies across four connected areas. These are veterinary capability, professional commitment, personal leadership, and reflective relationships.
The Continuous Learning Framework
The Continuous Learning Framework is built around four connected domains:
- Veterinary capability
- Professional commitment
- Personal leadership
- Reflective relationships
They work together to support your professional development. These domains overlap and complement each other, reflecting the realities of veterinary practice.
You develop skills across all four domains, creating a balanced, sustainable practice that benefits animals, clients, and colleagues.
Veterinary capability
- Clinical reasoning
- Individual animal care
- One health/public health
- Animal population care and management
Professional commitment
- Leadership and management
- Business and finance
Personal leadership
- Professionalism
- Self-awareness
- Self-reflection
- Adaptability
Reflective relationships
- Communication
- Collaboration
Where the four domains meet, they form combined competences that reflect everyday veterinary work. Each competence draws on more than one area of the Continuous Learning Framework.
- Service delivery - where veterinary capability meets professional commitment
- Sustainable engagement - professional commitment combined with personal leadership
- Emotional intelligence - personal leadership combined with reflective relationships
- Relationship-centred care - reflective relationships connected with veterinary capability
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