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List of EPAs

On this page:
Stage 1 EPAs Stage 2 EPAs Stage 3 Fellowship EPAs Stage 3 Area of Practice EPAs

This page provides links to the detailed descriptions for each Entrustable Professional Activity (EPA) available as part of RANZCP training.

Confirmation of your entrustment is done via InTrain. 

The timing and rules for EPAs are contained in the EPA Handbook for Stage 1 and 2 [PDF; 121 KB] and Stage 3 EPAs table [PDF; 213 KB].

Stage 1 EPAs

Adult psychiatry

  • ST1-GEN-EPA5 [PDF; 40 kb]
    Use of an antipsychotic medication in a patient with schizophrenia/psychosis.
  • ST1-GEN-EPA6 [PDF; 40 kb]
    Providing psychoeducation to a patient and their family and/or carers about a major mental illness.

Stage 2 EPAs

General psychiatry

  • ST2-EXP-EPA1 [PDF; 40 kb]
    Demonstrating proficiency in all the expected tasks associated with prescription, administration and monitoring of Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT).
  • ST2-EXP-EPA2 [PDF; 40 kb]
    The application and use of the Mental Health Act.
  • ST2-EXP-EPA3 [PDF; 40 kb]
    Assessment and management of risk of harm to self and others.
  • ST2-EXP-EPA5 [PDF; 40 kb]
    Assess and manage adults with cultural and linguistic diversity.

Psychotherapy

  • ST2-PSY-EPA2 [PDF; 40 kb]
    Psychodynamically informed patient encounters and managing the therapeutic alliance.
  • ST2-PSY-EPA3 [PDF; 40 kb]
    Supportive psychotherapy.
  • ST2-PSY-EPA4 [PDF; 40 kb]
    Cognitive–behavioural therapy (CBT) for management of anxiety.

Child and adolescent psychiatry

  • ST2-CAP-EPA1 [PDF; 40 kb]
    Develop a management plan for an adolescent where school attendance is at risk.
  • ST2-CAP-EPA2 [PDF; 40 kb]
    Clinical assessment of a prepubertal child.

Consultation-liaison psychiatry

  • ST2-CL-EPA1 [PDF; 40 kb]
    Care for a patient with delirium.
  • ST2-CL-EPA2 [PDF; 40 kb]
    Manage clinically significant psychological distress in the context of the patient’s medical illness in the general hospital.

Addiction psychiatry

  • ST2-ADD-EPA1 [PDF; 40 kb]
    Management of substance intoxication and substance withdrawal.
  • ST2-ADD-EPA2 [PDF; 40 kb]
    Comorbid mental health and substance use problems.

Psychiatry of old age

  • ST2-POA-EPA1 [PDF; 40 kb]
    Behavioural and psychological symptoms in dementia (BPSD).
  • ST2-POA-EPA2 [PDF; 40 kb]
    The appropriate use of antidepressants and antipsychotics in patients aged 75 years and over (or under 75 with excessive frailty).

Adult psychiatry 

  • ST2-AP-EPA1 [PDF; 40 kb]
    Assess treatment-refractory psychiatric disorders.
  • ST2-AP-EPA2 [PDF; 40 kb]
    Physical comorbidity 2.

Adult psychiatry (eating disorders)

  • ST2-AP-EPA3 [PDF; 40 kb]
    Assess and manage a patient with anorexia nervosa presenting in a severely underweight state.
  • ST2-AP-EPA4 [PDF; 40 kb]
    Assess and manage an adult with bulimia nervosa.

Adult psychiatry (perinatal)

  • ST2-AP-EPA5 [PDF; 40 kb]
    Assess and manage a woman experiencing a major postpartum illness within 12 months of childbirth.
  • ST2-AP-EPA6 [PDF; 40 kb]
    Assess and manage a pregnant woman presenting with a psychiatric disorder.

Adult psychiatry (neuropsychiatry)

  • ST2-AP-EPA7 [PDF; 40 kb]
    Assess and manage a mental illness occurring in an adult with an established diagnosis of epilepsy.
  • ST2-AP-EPA8 [PDF; 40 kb]
    Assess and manage psychological and behavioural symptoms in an adult under the age of 50 with an acquired brain injury.

Adult psychiatry (Pacific peoples’ mental health)

  • ST2-AP-EPA9 [PDF; 40 kb]
    Assessment of people of Pacific Island descent.
  • ST2-AP-EPA10 [PDF; 40 kb]
    Collaborative management of people of Pacific Island descent.

Adult psychiatry (early psychosis intervention)

  • ST2-AP-EPA11 [PDF; 40 kb]
    Differential diagnosis in people presenting for the first time with psychosis.
  • ST2-AP-EPA12 [PDF; 40 kb]
    Engagement with people with first episode psychosis and with their families.

Forensic psychiatry 

  • ST2-FP-EPA1 [PDF; 40 kb]
    Violence risk assessment and management 2.
  • ST2-FP-EPA2 [PDF; 40 kb]
    Expert evidence 2.
  • ST2-FP-EPA3 [PDF; 40 kb]
    Understanding and managing psychological issues in forensic patients and carers.

Indigenous mental health - Australia 

  • ST2-INDAU-EPA1 [PDF; 40 kb]
    Interviewing an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander patient.
  • ST2-INDAU-EPA2 [PDF; 40 kb]
    Develop a mental healthcare management plan for an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander patient.

Indigenous mental health - Aotearoa New Zealand 

  • ST2-INDNZ-EPA1 [PDF; 40 kb]
    Interviewing a Māori patient.
  • ST2-INDNZ-EPA2 [PDF; 40 kb]
    Develop a mental healthcare management and recovery plan for a Māori patient.

Research

  • ST2-RES-EPA1 [PDF; 40 kb]
    Planning and initiating a research project 2.
  • ST2-RES-EPA2 [PDF; 40 kb]
    Planning, conducting and reporting a review of scientific literature 2.    
  • ST2-RES-EPA3 [PDF; 40 kb]
    Skills in research methodology and data collection 2.    
  • ST2-RES-EPA4 [PDF; 40 kb]
    Skills in data analysis and synthesis 2.

Stage 3 Fellowship EPAs

Addiction psychiatry

  • ST3-ADD-FELL-EPA1 [PDF; 40 kb]
    Acute assessment and diagnosis of substance use.
  • ST3-ADD-FELL-EPA2 [PDF; 40 kb]
    Long-term management of severe alcohol use disorders.
  • ST3-ADD-FELL-EPA3 [PDF; 40 kb]
    Advanced management of substance intoxication and substance withdrawal.
  • ST3-ADD-FELL-EPA4 [PDF; 40 kb]
    Management of comorbid substance use, including tobacco dependence, and other mental health problems.

Adult psychiatry

  • ST3-AP-FELL-EPA1 [PDF; 40 kb]
    Teach and supervise.
  • ST3-AP-FELL-EPA2 [PDF; 40 kb]
    Consult and collaborate with another health professional about their risk assessment
  • ST3-AP-FELL-EPA4 [PDF; 40 kb]
    Recovery and rehabilitation
  • ST3-AP-FELL-EPA5 [PDF; 40 kb]
    Complex work with families and/or carers.
  • ST3-AP-FELL-EPA7 [PDF; 40 kb]
    Preparation and presentation of a treating doctor’s report to a tribunal authorising treatment under mental health legislation.   
  • ST3-AP-FELL-EPA8 [PDF; 40 kb]
    Demonstrate leadership skills in a multidisciplinary team setting. (Adult)  
  • ST3-AP-FELL-EPA9 [PDF; 40 kb]
    First presentation of a complex mental disorder.    
  • ST3-AP-FELL-EPA10 [PDF; 40 kb]
    Assessment and management of adults with a comorbid intellectual/developmental disability and mental illness.   
  • ST3-AP-FELL-EPA11 [PDF; 40 kb]
    Conduct assessments of adults, collaborate with carers, referrers and health professionals and implement management via telehealth to rural, remote or outlying areas.  
  • ST3-AP-FELL-EPA12 [PDF; 40 kb]
    Advanced clinical work with people with cultural and linguistic diversity.
  • ST3-AP-FELL-EPA13 [PDF; 40 kb]
    Medicolegal (civil) assessment and report not connected with the relevant mental health act.   
  • ST3-AP-FELL-EPA14 [PDF; 40 kb]
    Assessment and comprehensive management of a patient over the age of 18 years with anorexia nervosa presenting in a severely underweight state (eg. BMI < 14)
  • ST3-AP-FELL-EPA15 [PDF; 40 kb]
    Assessment and comprehensive management of an outpatient adult with bulimia nervosa. 
  • ST3-AP-FELL-EPA16 [PDF; 40 kb]
    Assessment and comprehensive management of a woman experiencing a major postpartum mental illness within 12 months of childbirth.
  • ST3-AP-FELL-EPA17 [PDF; 40 kb]
    Assessment and comprehensive management of a pregnant woman presenting with a psychiatric disorder.
  • ST3-AP-FELL-EPA18 [PDF; 40 kb]
    Assessment and management of a mental illness occurring in an adult with an established diagnosis of epilepsy.
  • ST3-AP-FELL-EPA19 [PDF; 40 kb]
    Assessment and management of psychological and behavioural symptoms in an adult under the age of 50 with an acquired brain injury.  
  • ST3-AP-FELL-EPA20 [PDF; 40 kb]
    Review service delivery
  • ST3-AP-FELL-EPA21 [PDF; 40 kb]
    Assessment of a military or veteran patient
  • ST3-AP-FELL-EPA22 [PDF; 40 kb]
    Review service delivery in an Early Intervention Service

Forensic psychiatry

Indigenous mental health - Australia

  • ST3-INDAU-FELL-EPA1 [PDF; 40 kb]
    Formulation of a case involving an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander patient.
  • ST3-INDAU-FELL-EPA2 [PDF; 40 kb]
    Review a model of mental health service delivery in an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander community service.

Indigenous mental health - Aotearoa New Zealand

  • ST3-INDNZ-FELL-EPA1 [PDF; 40 kb]
    Formulation of a case involving a Māori patient.
  • ST3-INDNZ-FELL-EPA2 [PDF; 40 kb]
    Review a model of mental health service delivery in a Māori community service (including hospitals and community services attached to hospitals).

Psychiatry of old age

  • ST3-POA-FELL-EPA1 [PDF; 40 kb]
    Formal capacity assessment and report.
  • ST3-POA-FELL-EPA2 [PDF; 40 kb]
    Demonstrate leadership skills in a multidisciplinary team setting (POA).
  • ST3-POA-FELL-EPA3 [PDF; 40 kb]
    Assessment of older people in general medical settings.
  • ST3-POA-FELL-EPA4 [PDF; 40 kb]
    Older adult psychopharmacology, including the use of psychotropic medications in patients with treatment-resistant depression and those with complex general medical needs.

Psychotherapy

Administration

Medical education

Stage 3 Area of Practice EPAs

Addiction psychiatry 

  • ST3-ADD-AOP-EPA5 [PDF; 40 kb]
    Treatment of substance use disorder with psychological methods.
  • ST3-ADD-AOP-EPA6 [PDF; 40 kb]
    Provide training for other clinicians in delivery of brief interventions for substance use disorder.
  • ST3-ADD-AOP-EPA7 [PDF; 40 kb]
    Alcohol and other drug (AOD) consultation–liaison.
  • ST3-ADD-AOP-EPA8 [PDF; 40 kb]
    Management of chronic pain with comorbid substance misuse.
  • ST3-ADD-AOP-EPA9 [PDF; 40 kb]
    Assess and manage a patient with opioid drug use problems.
  • ST3-ADD-AOP-EPA10 [PDF; 40 kb]
    Treatment of people with gambling disorder and other behavioural addictions.
  • ST3-ADD-AOP-EPA11 [PDF; 40 kb]
    Assess and manage complex comorbid substance use and physical health problems, including tobacco use.
  • ST3-ADD-AOP-EPA12 [PDF; 40 kb]
    Impairment assessment and report for patients with substance use disorders.

Adult psychiatry 

Child and adolescent psychiatry 

  • ST3-CAP-AOP-EPA1 [PDF; 40 kb]
    Independently conducts an initial family interview involving children and adolescents.
  • ST3-CAP-AOP-EPA2 [PDF; 40 kb]
    Discussing a formulation and negotiating a management plan with a pre-adolescent child and/or family.
  • ST3-CAP-AOP-EPA3 [PDF; 40 kb]
    Produces comprehensive psychiatric reports after initial assessment of children, adolescents and their families.
  • ST3-CAP-AOP-EPA4 [PDF; 40 kb]
    Commencing psychopharmacological treatment for children and adolescents who have not previously been treated with psychopharmacology.
  • ST3-CAP-AOP-EPA5 [PDF; 40 kb]
    Provision of psychiatric consultation to the multidisciplinary team for the management of a child or adolescent in an inpatient setting.
  • ST3-CAP-AOP-EPA6 [PDF; 40 kb]
    Conducts an assessment of culturally and linguistically diverse children and adolescents.
  • ST3-CAP-AOP-EPA7 [PDF; 40 kb]
    Provides leadership in an interagency case conference focused on a child or adolescent.
  • ST3-CAP-AOP-EPA8 [PDF; 40 kb]
    Assesses and implements a management plan for a complex clinical presentation where there are ongoing child protection concerns.
  • ST3-CAP-AOP-EPA9 [PDF; 40 kb]
    Conducts comprehensive assessment of child under three presenting with feeding and sleeping problems and presents the formulation to the family.

Consultation-liaison psychiatry

  • ST3-CL-AOP-EPA1 [PDF; 40 kb]
    Assess, formulate and manage clinically significant psychological states in the context of the patient’s illness in the general medical setting.
  • ST3-CL-AOP-EPA2 [PDF; 40 kb]
    Manage a patient with medically unexplained symptoms.
  • ST3-CL-AOP-EPA3 [PDF; 40 kb]
    Capacity assessment.
  • ST3-CL-AOP-EPA4 [PDF; 40 kb]
    Assess and manage a patient presenting with neuropsychiatric symptoms.
  • ST3-CL-AOP-EPA5 [PDF; 40 kb]
    Scholarly presentation to a non-psychiatric audience.
  • ST3-CL-AOP-EPA6 [PDF; 40 kb]
    Coercive treatments.
  • ST3-CL-AOP-EPA7 [PDF; 40 kb]
    Assess and manage psychiatric illness in patients with a chronic medical illness.
  • ST3-CL-AOP-EPA8 [PDF; 40 kb]
    Assess and manage chronic psychiatric illness in a patient in the general hospital.

Forensic psychiatry

  • ST3-FP-AOP-EPA4 [PDF; 40 kb]
    Consultation and liaison role to contribute to a multi-agency approach to manage a complex forensic patient.
  • ST3-FP-AOP-EPA5 [PDF; 40 kb]
    Violence risk assessment and management 3.
  • ST3-FP-AOP-EPA6 [PDF; 40 kb]
    Management of a long-term forensic patient.
  • ST3-FP-AOP-EPA7 [PDF; 40 kb]
    Expert evidence 3.
  • ST3-FP-AOP-EPA8 [PDF; 40 kb]
    Women’s forensic psychiatry: consultation–liaison.
  • ST3-FP-AOP-EPA9 [PDF; 40 kb]
    Medicolegal assessment (civil): injury and impairment.
  • ST3-FP-AOP-EPA10 [PDF; 40 kb]
    Medicolegal assessment (civil): fitness and capacity.
  • ST3-FP-AOP-EPA11 [PDF; 40 kb]
    Adolescent forensic psychiatry: clinical assessment and treatment.
  • ST3-FP-AOP-EPA12 [PDF; 40 kb]
    Assessment of an older person in a criminal or civil context.
  • ST3-FP-AOP-EPA13 [PDF; 40 kb]
    Assessment and management of sexual offending.
  • ST3-FP-AOP-EPA14 [PDF; 40 kb]
    Civil forensic psychiatry: Family Court.

Psychiatry of old age

  • ST3-POA-AOP-EPA5 [PDF; 40 kb]
    Management of behavioural and psychological symptoms of dementia.
  • ST3-POA-AOP-EPA6 [PDF; 40 kb]
    Neuropsychological testing, neuroimaging and rating scales.
  • ST3-POA-AOP-EPA7 [PDF; 40 kb]
    Assessing older people in complex domiciliary settings, including those with problems such as hoarding, squalor and homelessness.
  • ST3-POA-AOP-EPA8 [PDF; 40 kb]
    Residential aged care facility assessment and management planning.
  • ST3-POA-AOP-EPA9 [PDF; 40 kb]
    Psychological treatments in older people.

Psychotherapy

Administration

  • ST3-ADM-AOP-EPA3 [PDF; 40 kb]
    Reviewing performance and development of a learning plan.
  • ST3-ADM-AOP-EPA4 [PDF; 40 kb]
    Demonstrate leadership skills in a review of an incident or complaint.
  • ST3-ADM-AOP-EPA5 [PDF; 40 kb]
    Strategy and policy.
  • ST3-ADM-AOP-EPA6 [PDF; 40 kb]
    Demonstrate leadership skills through participation in a clinical governance committee.

Medical education

  • ST3-EDU-AOP-EPA5 [PDF; 40 kb]
    Develop a summative assessment for learners who have completed a course, program or teaching session.
  • ST3-EDU-AOP-EPA6 [PDF; 40 kb]
    Planning a course, workshop or learning session.

Research

  • ST3-RES-AOP-EPA1 [PDF; 40 kb]
    Planning and initiating a research project 3.
  • ST3-RES-AOP-EPA2 [PDF; 40 kb]
    Planning, conducting and reporting a review of scientific literature 3.  
  • ST3-RES-AOP-EPA3 [PDF; 40 kb]
    Skills in research methodology and data collection 3.    
  • ST3-RES-AOP-EPA4 [PDF; 40 kb]
    Skills in Data Analysis and Synthesis 3.

Last updated 03 June 2025