Patient Care
Students must demonstrate the ability to apply knowledge, skills and attitudes necessary for competent patient care, and are expected to:
- Recognize the clinical presentation of the common or life-threatening diseases and injuries and understand the principles of treatment and management.
- Acquire clinical knowledge (both in-patient and out-patient settings) in the six major disciplines: family medicine, internal medicine, obstetrics and gynecology, pediatrics, psychiatry, and surgery.
- Perform routine technical procedures including at a minimum venipuncture, inserting an intravenous catheter, inserting a nasogastric tube, inserting a Foley catheter, suturing lacerations, record an ECG, and certify in ACLS & PALS.
- Interpret the results of commonly used diagnostic tests and procedures.
- Construct by clinical reasoning, a differential diagnosis and initial investigations for common clinical conditions.
- Construct appropriate management strategies (both diagnostic and therapeutic) for patients with common conditions, both acute and chronic, including medical, psychiatric, and surgical conditions, and those requiring short- and long-term rehabilitation and end-of-life care.
- Recognize patients with immediately life threatening cardiac, pulmonary, neurological, or other conditions regardless of etiology, and institute appropriate initial therapy
Interpersonal Skills and Communication
Students must demonstrate interpersonal and communication skills that result in the effective exchange of information, collaboration with patients, their families and health professionals, and equity in delivery of care.
Students are expected to:
Systems-based Practice
Students must demonstrate an awareness of and responsiveness to the larger context and system of health care, as well as the ability to call effectively on other resources in the system to provide optimal health care.
Students are expected to:
Personal and Professional Development
Demonstrate the qualities required to sustain lifelong personal and professional growth.
Students are expected to develop skills and habits to be able to meet the following goals:
Practice-based Learning and Improvement
Student must demonstrate the ability to investigate and evaluate their care of patients, to appraise and assimilate scientific evidence, and to continuously improve patient care based on constant self- evaluation and life-long learning.
Students are expected to develop skills and habits to be able to meet the following goals:
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