Bringing competencies closer to day-to-day clinical work through entrustable professional activities

• 1 Center for Research and Development of Education, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands
• 2 University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, United States
• 3 Royal Australasian College of Surgeons, Melbourne, VIC
• 4 Royal Australasian College of Physicians, Sydney, NSW

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