Patient Care

Students must be able to provide evidence-based care that is compassionate, respectful of patients’ differences, values, and preferences. They should demonstrate the ability to listen, clearly inform, communicate and educate patients for the promotion of health and the treatment of illness; they must advocate for disease prevention, wellness and the promotion of healthy lifestyles including a focus on population health. They must be able to accurately evaluate relevant social and clinical information in the context of the patient’s visit.

Medical and Scientific Knowledge

Students must demonstrate knowledge of established and evolving biomedical and clinical sciences and understand how/when to apply this knowledge to their practice of medicine. The students must demonstrate their ability to appraise and assimilate scientific evidence into their own ongoing learning, research, and patient care as part of a life-long medical education process.

Communication and Interpersonal Skills

Students must demonstrate compassionate and effective interpersonal communication skills with the healthcare team, patients, families, and the communityto deliver effective medical care and promote shared decision making. Students must be able to articulate information and ideas (written and oral) in an organized and clear manner to educate or inform patients, families, colleagues, and community.

Professionalism

Students must demonstrate a commitment to the highest standards of professional responsibility and adherence to ethical principles. Students must display the personal attributes of compassion, honesty, integrity, and cultural competence in all interactions with patients, families, and the medical community.

Reflective practice and personal development

Students must demonstrate habits of self-assessment that result in the identification of learning needs, leading to the integration and synthesis of new learning. Student must also demonstrate habits of analyzing experiences that affect their well-being, productive relationships with groups and individuals, and self-motivation and limitations.

Health care systems

Students must demonstrate knowledge of the larger context of health care (social, behavioral, economic factors) and the ability to effectively call on system resources to provide care that is of optimal value to the health of the individual and of the community.