Entrustable Professional Activity (EPA) forms

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.EPAs (background information)

EPA handbook

Full details of the RANZCP EPAs can be found in the EPA Handbook – Stage 1 and 2 [PDF; 986 KB]

Print-friendly overviews

EPA handy tips [PDF; 180 KB]
Print friendly table of all Stage 1 and 2 EPAs [PDF; 59 KB]
Print friendly table of all Stage 3 EPAs [PDF; 76 KB]

Stage 1 EPAs and COE forms [PDF; 687 KB] (single document containing all EPAs and COEs in table below)

Adult psychiatry

EPAs must be entrusted by the end of Stage 1. Trainees are also eligible to attain the Stage 2 general psychiatry and psychotherapy EPAs.

EPA number	EPA title	EPA	COE
ST1-GEN-EPA5	Use of an antipsychotic medication in a patient with schizophrenia/psychosis.	EPA	COE
ST1-GEN-EPA6	Providing psychoeducation to a patient and their family and/or carers about a major mental illness.	EPA	COE

Stage 2 General psychiatry EPAs and COE forms [PDF; 820 KB] (combined document)
Psychotherapy EPAs and COE forms [PDF; 153 KB] (combined document)

General psychiatry

Mandatory EPAs; may be entrusted during Stage 1, must be entrusted by the end of Stage 2. These EPAs may be attained in any rotation.

EPA number	EPA title	EPA	COE
ST2-EXP-EPA1	Demonstrating proficiency in all the expected tasks associated with prescription, administration and monitoring of ECT.	EPA	COE
ST2-EXP-EPA2	The application and use of the Mental Health Act.	EPA	COE
ST2-EXP-EPA3	Assessment and management of risk of harm to self and others.	EPA	COE
ST2-EXP-EPA5	Assess and manage adults with cultural and linguistic diversity.	EPA	COE

Psychotherapy

Mandatory EPAs; see EPA handbook for timing requirements. These EPAs may be attained in any rotation.

EPA number	EPA title	EPA	COE
ST2-PSY-EPA2	Psychodynamically informed patient encounters and managing the therapeutic alliance.	EPA	COE
ST2-PSY-EPA3	Supportive psychotherapy.	EPA	COE
ST2-PSY-EPA4	Cognitive–behavioural therapy (CBT) for management of anxiety.	EPA	COE

Child and adolescent psychiatry

Mandatory rotation, must complete associated EPAs.

EPA number	EPA title	EPA	COE
ST2-CAP-EPA1	Develop a management plan for an adolescent where school attendance is at risk.	EPA	COE
ST2-CAP-EPA2	Clinical assessment of a prepubertal child.	EPA	COE

Consultation–liaison psychiatry

Mandatory rotation, must complete associated EPAs.

EPA number	EPA title	EPA	COE
ST2-CL-EPA1	Care for a patient with delirium.	EPA	COE
ST2-CL-EPA2	Manage clinically significant psychological distress in the context of the patient’s medical illness in the general hospital.	EPA	COE

Addiction psychiatry

Elective rotation. Mandatory EPAs, may be attained in any rotation.

EPA number	EPA title	EPA	COE
ST2-ADD-EPA1	Management of substance intoxication and substance withdrawal.	EPA	COE
ST2-ADD-EPA2	Comorbid mental health and substance use problems.	EPA	COE

Psychiatry of old age

Elective rotation. Mandatory EPAs, may be attained in any rotation.

EPA number	EPA title	EPA	COE
ST2-POA-EPA1	Behavioural and psychological symptoms in dementia (BPSD).	EPA	COE
ST2-POA-EPA2	The appropriate use of antidepressants and antipsychotics in patients aged 75 years and over (or under 75 with excessive frailty).	EPA	COE

Adult psychiatry

Elective rotation – if first Stage 2 adult psychiatry rotation, trainee must undertake two of the following adult psychiatry EPAs. If second Stage 2 adult psychiatry rotation, trainee may undertake any Stage 2 EPAs.

EPA number	EPA title	EPA	COE
ST2-AP-EPA1 General adult psychiatry	Assess treatment-refractory psychiatric disorders.	EPA	COE
ST2-AP-EPA2 General adult psychiatry	Physical comorbidity 2.	EPA	COE
ST2-AP-EPA3 Adult Eating disorders psychiatry	Assess and manage a patient with anorexia nervosa presenting in a severely underweight state.	EPA	COE
ST2-AP-EPA4 Adult Eating disorders psychiatry	Assess and manage an adult with bulimia nervosa.	EPA	COE
ST2-AP-EPA5 Adult Perinatal psychiatry	Assess and manage a woman experiencing a major postpartum illness within 12 months of childbirth.	EPA	COE
ST2-AP-EPA6 Adult Perinatal psychiatry	Assess and manage a pregnant woman presenting with a psychiatric disorder.	EPA	COE
ST2-AP-EPA7 Adult Neuropsychiatry	Assess and manage a mental illness occurring in an adult with an established diagnosis of epilepsy.	EPA	COE
ST2-AP-EPA8 Adult Neuropsychiatry	Assess and manage psychological and behavioural symptoms in an adult under the age of 50 with an acquired brain injury.	EPA	COE
ST2-AP-EPA9 Pacific peoples’ mental health	Assessment of people of Pacific Island descent.	EPA	COE
ST2-AP-EPA10 Pacific peoples’ mental health	Collaborative management of people of Pacific Island descent.	EPA	COE
ST2-AP-EPA11 Early Psychosis Intervention	Differential diagnosis in people presenting for the first time with psychosis.	EPA	COE
ST2-AP-EPA12 Early Psychosis Intervention	Engagement with people with first episode psychosis and with their families.	EPA	COE

Forensic psychiatry

Elective rotation – if first Stage 2 forensic psychiatry rotation, trainee must undertake two of the following forensic psychiatry EPAs. If second Stage 2 forensic psychiatry rotation, trainee may undertake any Stage 2 EPAs.

EPA number	EPA title	EPA	COE
ST2-FP-EPA1	Violence risk assessment and management 2.	EPA	COE
ST2-FP-EPA2	Expert evidence 2.	EPA	COE
ST2-FP-EPA3	Understanding and managing psychological issues in forensic patients and carers.	EPA	COE

Indigenous mental health – Australia

Elective rotation – if undertaken, must entrust associated EPAs relevant to the Area of Practice.

EPA number	EPA title	EPA	COE
ST2-INDAU-EPA1	Interviewing an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander patient.	EPA	COE
ST2-INDAU-EPA2	Develop a mental healthcare management plan for an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander patient.	EPA	COE

Indigenous mental health – New Zealand

Elective rotation – if undertaken, must entrust associated EPAs relevant to the Area of Practice.

EPA number	EPA title	EPA	COE
ST2-INDNZ-EPA1	Interviewing a Māori patient.	EPA	COE
ST2-INDNZ-EPA2	Develop a mental healthcare management and recovery plan for a Māori patient.	EPA	COE

Research

Elective rotation – if undertaken, must entrust associated EPAs relevant to the Area of Practice.

EPA number	EPA title	EPA	COE
ST2-RES-EPA1	Planning and initiating a research project 2.	EPA	COE
ST2-RES-EPA2	Planning, conducting and reporting a review of scientific literature 2.	EPA	COE
ST2-RES-EPA3	Skills in research methodology and data collection 2.	EPA	COE
ST2-RES-EPA4	Skills in data analysis and synthesis 2.	EPA	COE

Fellowship (FELL) EPAs

Fellowship (FELL) EPAs can be attained in any rotation.

EPA number	Area of practice	EPA title	EPA	COE
ST3-ADD-FELL-EPA1	Addiction psychiatry	Acute assessment and diagnosis of substance use.	EPA	COE
ST3-ADD-FELL-EPA2	Addiction psychiatry	Long-term management of severe alcohol use disorders.	EPA	COE
ST3-ADD-FELL-EPA3	Addiction psychiatry	Advanced management of substance intoxication and substance withdrawal.	EPA	COE
ST3-ADD-FELL-EPA4	Addiction psychiatry	Management of comorbid substance use, including tobacco dependence, and other mental health problems.	EPA	COE
ST3-AP-FELL-EPA1	Adult psychiatry	Teach and supervise.	EPA	COE
ST3-AP-FELL-EPA2	Adult psychiatry	Consult and collaborate with another health professional about their risk assessment.	EPA	COE
ST3-AP-FELL-EPA4	Adult psychiatry	Recovery and rehabilitation.	EPA	COE
ST3-AP-FELL-EPA5	Adult psychiatry	Complex work with families and/or carers.	EPA	COE
ST3-AP-FELL-EPA7	Adult psychiatry	Preparation and presentation of a treating doctor’s report to a tribunal authorising treatment under mental health legislation.	EPA	COE
ST3-AP-FELL-EPA8	Adult psychiatry	Demonstrate leadership skills in a multidisciplinary team setting. (Adult)	EPA	COE
ST3-AP-FELL-EPA9	Adult psychiatry	First presentation of a complex mental disorder.	EPA	COE
ST3-AP-FELL-EPA10	Adult psychiatry	Assessment and management of adults with a comorbid intellectual/developmental disability and mental illness.	EPA	COE
ST3-AP-FELL-EPA11	Adult psychiatry	Conduct assessments of adults, collaborate with carers, referrers and health professionals and implement management via telehealth to rural, remote or outlying areas.	EPA	COE
ST3-AP-FELL-EPA12	Adult psychiatry	Advanced clinical work with people with cultural and linguistic diversity.	EPA	COE
ST3-AP-FELL-EPA13	Adult psychiatry	Medicolegal (civil) assessment and report not connected with the relevant mental health act.	EPA	COE
ST3-AP-FELL-EPA14	Adult psychiatry	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)	EPA	COE
ST3-AP-FELL-EPA15	Adult psychiatry	Assessment and comprehensive management of an outpatient adult with bulimia nervosa.	EPA	COE
ST3-AP-FELL-EPA16	Adult psychiatry	Assessment and comprehensive management of a woman experiencing a major postpartum mental illness within 12 months of childbirth.	EPA	COE
ST3-AP-FELL-EPA17	Adult psychiatry	Assessment and comprehensive management of a pregnant woman presenting with a psychiatric disorder.	EPA	COE
ST3-AP-FELL-EPA18	Adult psychiatry	Assessment and management of a mental illness occurring in an adult with an established diagnosis of epilepsy.	EPA	COE
ST3-AP-FELL-EPA19	Adult psychiatry	Assessment and management of psychological and behavioural symptoms in an adult under the age of 50 with an acquired brain injury.	EPA	COE
ST3-AP-FELL-EPA20	Adult psychiatry	Review service delivery	EPA	COE
ST3-AP-FELL-EPA21	Adult psychiatry	Assessment of a military or veteran patient	EPA	COE
ST3-AP-FELL-EPA22	Adult psychiatry	Review service delivery in an Early Intervention Service	EPA	COE
ST3-FP-FELL-EPA1	Forensic psychiatry	Forensic education seminars.	EPA	COE
ST3-FP-FELL-EPA2A	Forensic psychiatry	Systemic working: case review.	EPA	COE
ST3-FP-FELL-EPA2B	Forensic psychiatry	Systemic working: clinical audit.	EPA	COE
ST3-FP-FELL-EPA3	Forensic psychiatry	Academic forensic psychiatry: research project.	EPA	COE
ST3-INDAU-FELL-EPA1	Indigenous mental health – Australia	Formulation of a case involving an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander patient.	EPA	COE
ST3-INDAU-FELL-EPA2	Indigenous mental health – Australia	Review a model of mental health service delivery in an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander community service.	EPA	COE
ST3-INDNZ-FELL-EPA1	Indigenous mental health – New Zealand	Formulation of a case involving a Māori patient.	EPA	COE
ST3-INDNZ-FELL-EPA2	Indigenous mental health – New Zealand	Review a model of mental health service delivery in a Māori community service (including hospitals and community services attached to hospitals).	EPA	COE
ST3-POA-FELL-EPA1	Psychiatry of old age	Formal capacity assessment and report.	EPA	COE
ST3-POA-FELL-EPA2	Psychiatry of old age	Demonstrate leadership skills in a multidisciplinary team setting (POA).	EPA	COE
ST3-POA-FELL-EPA3	Psychiatry of old age	Assessment of older people in general medical settings.	EPA	COE
ST3-POA-FELL-EPA4	Psychiatry of old age	Older adult psychopharmacology, including the use of psychotropic medications in patients with treatment-resistant depression and those with complex general medical needs.	EPA	COE
ST3-PSY-FELL-EPA1	Psychotherapies	Foundational use of supervision and co-management approaches in psychotherapy.	EPA	COE
ST3-PSY-FELL-EPA2	Psychotherapies	Foundational assessment and treatment planning.	EPA	COE
ST3-PSY-FELL-EPA3	Psychotherapies	Foundational management in psychotherapy.	EPA	COE
ST3-PSY-FELL-EPA4	Psychotherapies	Research skills in psychotherapy.	EPA	COE
ST3-ADM-FELL-EPA1	Medical administration	Demonstrate leadership skills in a multidisciplinary team setting (Admin).	EPA	COE
ST3-ADM-FELL-EPA2	Medical administration	Improvement project.	EPA	COE
ST3-EDU-FELL-EPA1	Medical education	Small and large group teaching.	EPA	COE
ST3-EDU-FELL-EPA2	Medical education	Deliver and evaluate clinical (bedside) teaching sessions.	EPA	COE
ST3-EDU-FELL-EPA3	Medical education	Assist learning though receiving and providing feedback.	EPA	COE
ST3-EDU-FELL-EPA4	Medical education	Training to become an effective and competent supervisor.	EPA	COE

Area of Practice (AOP) EPAs

Area of practice (AOP) EPAs can be attained in the relevant area of practice only, e.g. trainees are eligible to attain forensic AOP EPAs in forensic psychiatry rotations only.

Click on an area of practice below to view its AOP EPAs.

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

EPA number	EPA title	EPA	COE
ST3-AP-AOP-EPA3*	Assess and manage treatment-refractory psychiatric disorders.	EPA	COE
ST3-AP-AOP-EPA6*	Physical comorbidity 3.	EPA	COE

*If similar Stage 2 EPA has been completed, this EPA should not be attained.

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

EPA number	EPA title	EPA	COE
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.	EPA	COE
ST3-CL-AOP-EPA2	Manage a patient with medically unexplained symptoms.	EPA	COE
ST3-CL-AOP-EPA3	Capacity assessment.	EPA	COE
ST3-CL-AOP-EPA4	Assess and manage a patient presenting with neuropsychiatric symptoms.	EPA	COE
ST3-CL-AOP-EPA5	Scholarly presentation to a non-psychiatric audience.	EPA	COE
ST3-CL-AOP-EPA6	Coercive treatments.	EPA	COE
ST3-CL-AOP-EPA7	Assess and manage psychiatric illness in patients with a chronic medical illness.	EPA	COE
ST3-CL-AOP-EPA8	Assess and manage chronic psychiatric illness in a patient in the general hospital.	EPA	COE

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

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

EPA number	EPA title	EPA	COE
ST3-PSY-AOP-EPA5	Advanced use of supervision and co-management approaches in psychotherapy.	EPA	COE
ST3-PSY-AOP-EPA6	Advanced assessment and treatment planning.	EPA	COE
ST3-PSY-AOP-EPA7	Advanced management in psychotherapy.	EPA	COE
ST3-PSY-AOP-EPA8	Introductory training in supervisory skills in psychotherapy.	EPA	COE
ST3-PSY-AOP-EPA9	Advanced presentation skills in psychotherapy.	EPA	COE
ST3-PSY-AOP-EPA10	Formal research in psychotherapy.	EPA	COE

EPA number	EPA title	EPA	COE
ST3-ADM-AOP-EPA3	Reviewing performance and development of a learning plan.	EPA	COE
ST3-ADM-AOP-EPA4	Demonstrate leadership skills in a review of an incident or complaint.	EPA	COE
ST3-ADM-AOP-EPA5	Strategy and policy.	EPA	COE
ST3-ADM-AOP-EPA6	Demonstrate leadership skills through participation in a clinical governance committee.	EPA	COE

EPA number	EPA title	EPA	COE
ST3-EDU-AOP-EPA5	Develop a summative assessment for learners who have completed a course, program or teaching session.	EPA	COE
ST3-EDU-AOP-EPA6	Planning a course, workshop or learning session.	EPA	COE

EPA number	EPA title	EPA	COE
ST3-RES-AOP-EPA1	Planning and initiating a research project 3.	EPA	COE
ST3-RES-AOP-EPA2	Planning, conducting and reporting a review of scientific literature 3.	EPA	COE
ST3-RES-AOP-EPA3	Skills in research methodology and data collection 3.	EPA	COE
ST3-RES-AOP-EPA4	Skills in Data Analysis and Synthesis 3.	EPA	COE

Stage 3 FELL vs AOP EPAs

FELL (Fellowship) EPAs can be attained in any rotation whereas AOP (area of practice) EPAs can be attained in the relevant area of practice only.

For example, trainees can attain the consultation–liaison psychiatry EPA, ST3-CL-AOP-EPA2: Manage a patient with medically unexplained symptoms, in consultation–liaison psychiatry rotations only, but can attain the medical education EPAs, ST3-EDU-FELL-EPA1: Small and large group teaching and ST3-EDU-FELL-EPA3: Assist learning though receiving and providing feedback in any rotation.

Prospective approval from the Committee for Training is required to attain AOP EPAs in a different area of practice. This will be determined on a case-by-case basis.