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List of EPAs
This page provides links to the detailed descriptions of each Entrustable Professional Activity (EPA) available as part of RANZCP training.
Confirmation of your entrustment of an EPA is done via InTrain. If you do not have access to InTrain, you can download PDF versions of all EPA forms.
EPA Handbook for Stage 1 and 2 [PDF; 121 KB]
Stage 1 EPAs
ST1-GEN-EPA5
Use of an antipsychotic medication in a patient with schizophrenia/psychosis.
ST1-GEN-EPA6
Providing psychoeducation to a patient and their family and/or carers about a major mental illness.
Stage 2 EPAs
ST2-EXP-EPA1
Demonstrating proficiency in all the expected tasks associated with prescription, administration and monitoring of ECT.
ST2-EXP-EPA2
The application and use of the Mental Health Act.
ST2-EXP-EPA3
Assessment and management of risk of harm to self and others.
ST2-EXP-EPA5
Assess and manage adults with cultural and linguistic diversity.
ST2-PSY-EPA2
Psychodynamically informed patient encounters and managing the therapeutic alliance.
ST2-PSY-EPA3
Supportive psychotherapy.
ST2-PSY-EPA4
Cognitive–behavioural therapy (CBT) for management of anxiety.
ST2-CAP-EPA1
Develop a management plan for an adolescent where school attendance is at risk.
ST2-CAP-EPA2
Clinical assessment of a prepubertal child.
ST2-CL-EPA1
Care for a patient with delirium.
ST2-CL-EPA2
Manage clinically significant psychological distress in the context of the patient’s medical illness in the general hospital.
ST2-ADD-EPA1
Management of substance intoxication and substance withdrawal.
ST2-ADD-EPA2
Comorbid mental health and substance use problems.
ST2-POA-EPA1
Behavioural and psychological symptoms in dementia (BPSD).
ST2-POA-EPA2
The appropriate use of antidepressants and antipsychotics in patients aged 75 years and over (or under 75 with excessive frailty).
ST2-AP-EPA1
Assess treatment-refractory psychiatric disorders.
ST2-AP-EPA2
Physical comorbidity 2.
ST2-AP-EPA3
Assess and manage a patient with anorexia nervosa presenting in a severely underweight state.
ST2-AP-EPA4
Assess and manage an adult with bulimia nervosa.
ST2-AP-EPA5
Assess and manage a woman experiencing a major postpartum illness within 12 months of childbirth.
ST2-AP-EPA6
Assess and manage a pregnant woman presenting with a psychiatric disorder.
ST2-AP-EPA7
Assess and manage a mental illness occurring in an adult with an established diagnosis of epilepsy.
ST2-AP-EPA8
Assess and manage psychological and behavioural symptoms in an adult under the age of 50 with an acquired brain injury.
ST2-AP-EPA9
Assessment of people of Pacific Island descent.
ST2-AP-EPA10
Collaborative management of people of Pacific Island descent.
ST2-AP-EPA11
Differential diagnosis in people presenting for the first time with psychosis.
ST2-AP-EPA12
Engagement with people with first episode psychosis and with their families.
ST2-FP-EPA1
Violence risk assessment and management 2.
ST2-FP-EPA2
Expert evidence 2.
ST2-FP-EPA3
Understanding and managing psychological issues in forensic patients and carers.
ST2-INDAU-EPA1
Interviewing an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander patient.
ST2-INDAU-EPA2
Develop a mental healthcare management plan for an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander patient.
ST2-INDNZ-EPA1
Interviewing a Māori patient.
ST2-INDNZ-EPA2
Develop a mental healthcare management and recovery plan for a Māori patient.
ST2-RES-EPA1
Planning and initiating a research project 2.
ST2-RES-EPA2
Planning, conducting and reporting a review of scientific literature 2.
ST2-RES-EPA3
Skills in research methodology and data collection 2.
ST2-RES-EPA4
Skills in data analysis and synthesis 2.
Stage 3 Fellowship EPAs
ST3-ADD-FELL-EPA1.pdf
Acute assessment and diagnosis of substance use.
ST3-ADD-FELL-EPA2
Long-term management of severe alcohol use disorders.
ST3-ADD-FELL-EPA3
Advanced management of substance intoxication and substance withdrawal.
ST3-ADD-FELL-EPA4
Management of comorbid substance use, including tobacco dependence, and other mental health problems.
ST3-AP-FELL-EPA1
Teach and supervise.
ST3-AP-FELL-EPA2
Consult and collaborate with another health professional about their risk assessment
ST3-AP-FELL-EPA4
Recovery and rehabilitation
ST3-AP-FELL-EPA5
Complex work with families and/or carers.
ST3-AP-FELL-EPA7
Preparation and presentation of a treating doctor’s report to a tribunal authorising treatment under mental health legislation.
ST3-AP-FELL-EPA8
Demonstrate leadership skills in a multidisciplinary team setting. (Adult)
ST3-AP-FELL-EPA9
First presentation of a complex mental disorder.
ST3-AP-FELL-EPA10
Assessment and management of adults with a comorbid intellectual/developmental disability and mental illness.
ST3-AP-FELL-EPA11
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
Advanced clinical work with people with cultural and linguistic diversity.
ST3-AP-FELL-EPA13
Medicolegal (civil) assessment and report not connected with the relevant mental health act.
ST3-AP-FELL-EPA14
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
Assessment and comprehensive management of an outpatient adult with bulimia nervosa.
ST3-AP-FELL-EPA16
Assessment and comprehensive management of a woman experiencing a major postpartum mental illness within 12 months of childbirth.
ST3-AP-FELL-EPA17
Assessment and comprehensive management of a pregnant woman presenting with a psychiatric disorder.
ST3-AP-FELL-EPA18
Assessment and management of a mental illness occurring in an adult with an established diagnosis of epilepsy.
ST3-AP-FELL-EPA19
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
Review service delivery
ST3-AP-FELL-EPA21
Assessment of a military or veteran patient
ST3-AP-FELL-EPA22
Review service delivery in an Early Intervention Service
ST3-FP-FELL-EPA1
Forensic education seminars.
ST3-FP-FELL-EPA2A
Systemic working: case review.
ST3-FP-FELL-EPA2B
Systemic working: clinical audit.
ST3-FP-FELL-EPA3
Academic forensic psychiatry: research project.
ST3-INDAU-FELL-EPA1
Formulation of a case involving an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander patient.
ST3-INDAU-FELL-EPA2
Review a model of mental health service delivery in an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander community service.
ST3-INDNZ-FELL-EPA1
Formulation of a case involving a Māori patient.
ST3-INDNZ-FELL-EPA2
Review a model of mental health service delivery in a Māori community service (including hospitals and community services attached to hospitals).
ST3-POA-FELL-EPA1
Formal capacity assessment and report.
ST3-POA-FELL-EPA2
Demonstrate leadership skills in a multidisciplinary team setting (POA).
ST3-POA-FELL-EPA3
Assessment of older people in general medical settings.
Older adult psychopharmacology, including the use of psychotropic medications in patients with treatment-resistant depression and those with complex general medical needs.
ST3-PSY-FELL-EPA1
Foundational use of supervision and co-management approaches in psychotherapy.
ST3-PSY-FELL-EPA2
Foundational assessment and treatment planning.
ST3-PSY-FELL-EPA3
Foundational management in psychotherapy.
ST3-PSY-FELL-EPA4
Research skills in psychotherapy.
ST3-ADM-FELL-EPA1
Demonstrate leadership skills in a multidisciplinary team setting (Admin).
ST3-ADM-FELL-EPA2
Improvement project.
ST3-EDU-FELL-EPA1
Small and large group teaching.
ST3-EDU-FELL-EPA2
Deliver and evaluate clinical (bedside) teaching sessions.
ST3-EDU-FELL-EPA3
Assist learning though receiving and providing feedback.
ST3-EDU-FELL-EPA4
Training to become an effective and competent supervisor.
Assessment of course/teaching
Stage 3 Area of Practice EPAs
ST3-ADD-AOP-EPA5
Treatment of substance use disorder with psychological methods.
ST3-ADD-AOP-EPA6
Provide training for other clinicians in delivery of brief interventions for substance use disorder.
ST3-ADD-AOP-EPA7
Alcohol and other drug (AOD) consultation–liaison.
ST3-ADD-AOP-EPA8
Management of chronic pain with comorbid substance misuse.
ST3-ADD-AOP-EPA9
Assess and manage a patient with opioid drug use problems.
ST3-ADD-AOP-EPA10
Treatment of people with gambling disorder and other behavioural addictions.
ST3-ADD-AOP-EPA11
Assess and manage complex comorbid substance use and physical health problems, including tobacco use.
ST3-ADD-AOP-EPA12
Impairment assessment and report for patients with substance use disorders.
ST3-AP-AOP-EPA3
Assess and manage treatment-refractory psychiatric disorders.
ST3-AP-AOP-EPA6
Physical comorbidity 3.
ST3-CAP-AOP-EPA1
Independently conducts an initial family interview involving children and adolescents.
ST3-CAP-AOP-EPA2
Discussing a formulation and negotiating a management plan with a pre-adolescent child and/or family.
ST3-CAP-AOP-EPA3
Produces comprehensive psychiatric reports after initial assessment of children, adolescents and their families.
ST3-CAP-AOP-EPA4
Commencing psychopharmacological treatment for children and adolescents who have not previously been treated with psychopharmacology.
ST3-CAP-AOP-EPA5
Provision of psychiatric consultation to the multidisciplinary team for the management of a child or adolescent in an inpatient setting.
ST3-CAP-AOP-EPA6
Conducts an assessment of culturally and linguistically diverse children and adolescents.
ST3-CAP-AOP-EPA7
Provides leadership in an interagency case conference focused on a child or adolescent.
ST3-CAP-AOP-EPA8
Assesses and implements a management plan for a complex clinical presentation where there are ongoing child protection concerns.
ST3-CAP-AOP-EPA9
Conducts comprehensive assessment of child under three presenting with feeding and sleeping problems and presents the formulation to the family.
ST3-CL-AOP-EPA1
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
Manage a patient with medically unexplained symptoms.
ST3-CL-AOP-EPA3
Capacity assessment.
ST3-CL-AOP-EPA4
Assess and manage a patient presenting with neuropsychiatric symptoms.
ST3-CL-AOP-EPA5
Scholarly presentation to a non-psychiatric audience.
ST3-CL-AOP-EPA6
Coercive treatments.
ST3-CL-AOP-EPA7
Assess and manage psychiatric illness in patients with a chronic medical illness.
ST3-CL-AOP-EPA8
Assess and manage chronic psychiatric illness in a patient in the general hospital.
ST3-FP-AOP-EPA4
Consultation and liaison role to contribute to a multi-agency approach to manage a complex forensic patient.
ST3-FP-AOP-EPA5
Violence risk assessment and management 3.
ST3-FP-AOP-EPA6
Management of a long-term forensic patient.
ST3-FP-AOP-EPA7
Expert evidence 3.
ST3-FP-AOP-EPA8
Women’s forensic psychiatry: consultation–liaison.
ST3-FP-AOP-EPA9
Medicolegal assessment (civil): injury and impairment.
ST3-FP-AOP-EPA10
Medicolegal assessment (civil): fitness and capacity.
ST3-FP-AOP-EPA11
Adolescent forensic psychiatry: clinical assessment and treatment.
ST3-FP-AOP-EPA12
Assessment of an older person in a criminal or civil context.
ST3-FP-AOP-EPA13
Assessment and management of sexual offending.
ST3-FP-AOP-EPA14
Civil forensic psychiatry: Family Court.
ST3-POA-AOP-EPA5.pdf
Management of behavioural and psychological symptoms of dementia.
ST3-POA-AOP-EPA6
Neuropsychological testing, neuroimaging and rating scales.
ST3-POA-AOP-EPA7
Assessing older people in complex domiciliary settings, including those with problems such as hoarding, squalor and homelessness.
ST3-POA-AOP-EPA8
Residential aged care facility assessment and management planning.
ST3-POA-AOP-EPA9
Psychological treatments in older people.
ST3-PSY-AOP-EPA5
Advanced use of supervision and co-management approaches in psychotherapy.
ST3-PSY-AOP-EPA6
Advanced assessment and treatment planning.
ST3-PSY-AOP-EPA7
Advanced management in psychotherapy.
ST3-PSY-AOP-EPA8
Introductory training in supervisory skills in psychotherapy.
ST3-PSY-AOP-EPA9
Advanced presentation skills in psychotherapy.
ST3-PSY-AOP-EPA10
Formal research in psychotherapy.
ST3-ADM-AOP-EPA3
Reviewing performance and development of a learning plan.
ST3-ADM-AOP-EPA4
Demonstrate leadership skills in a review of an incident or complaint.
ST3-ADM-AOP-EPA5
Strategy and policy.
ST3-ADM-AOP-EPA6
Demonstrate leadership skills through participation in a clinical governance committee.
ST3-CL-AOP-EPA5
Develop a summative assessment for learners who have completed a course, program or teaching session.
ST3-EDU-AOP-EPA6
Planning a course, workshop or learning session.
ST3-RES-AOP-EPA1
Planning and initiating a research project 3.
ST3-RES-AOP-EPA2
Planning, conducting and reporting a review of scientific literature 3.
ST3-RES-AOP-EPA3
Skills in research methodology and data collection 3.
ST3-RES-AOP-EPA4
Skills in Data Analysis and Synthesis 3.
