Entrustable Professional Activities

The European Hematology Association (EHA) launched the Entrustable Professional Activities (EPA) project in September 2025. This strategic European initiative supports the harmonization of postgraduate hematology training through a competency-based framework aligned with the European Hematology Curriculum.

Project goals

This initiative aims to: 

  • Support competency-based training 
  • Promote consistent training standards across Europe 
  • Enhance patient safety

What are entrustable professional activities? 

EPAs are defined as units of professional work that can be entrusted to a trainee once he/she has demonstrated sufficient competence to perform the activity independently, without assistance or need for advice. By translating curricular learning outcomes into observable and assessable clinical activities, the project aims to bridge the gap between curriculum design and day-to-day clinical training and enhances autonomy of the learners. 

Project team

The EPA project team consists of 13 hematologists representing nine European countries and an expert in Medical education, bringing together broad clinical, educational, and geographical expertise to ensure relevance across diverse training contexts.

  • Roza Chaireti (project lead, core team)
  • Alicia Rovó (core team)
  • Mahesh Prahladan (core team)
  • Mandy Lauw (core team)
  • Marije Hennus (core team)
  • Marielle Wondergem (core team)
  • Mirjana Mitrovic (core team)
  • Ahmet Emre Eşkazan
  • Andre Tichelli
  • Sabine Gerull
  • Konstantinos Christofyllakis
  • Tomás Navarro
  • Ulla Wartiovaara-Kautto
  • Laura Restrepo (EHA office project manager)

Project methodology

The EHA EPA project follows a structured, multi‑phase methodology designed to ensure educational rigor, stakeholder alignment, and quality assurance.

 

Figure: Overview of the EHA Hematology EPA project phases and indicative timeline (2025–2027) 

 

The preparatory phase, which took place in 2025, focused on assembling and training the project team, building shared expertise in EPA development, and establishing a common conceptual and methodological understanding among participants. The project is currently in the development phase, during which our project team is defining the overall EPA framework and approach and drafting and elaborating individual EPAs in alignment with the European Hematology Curriculum.

This will be followed by a quality control and consensus phase, which includes structured review by a broad and diverse group of stakeholders, including national societies and other key educational partners, to ensure that the resulting EPA framework is relevant, feasible, and adaptable across different European training contexts and countries. The final methodological phase will include curriculum mapping, definition of expected supervision levels at the end of training, and pilot testing in selected institutions. 

This phased approach is intended to produce a high‑quality, consensus‑based EPA framework that is both educationally sound and practically applicable across diverse European training environments. 

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