Educational Objectives

Contribute to and provide compassionate, appropriate, and effective patient-centered care to promote health and treat disease.

1. Gather relevant history appropriate for the patients and their presenting concerns.
2. Perform both comprehensive and focused physical examinations using techniques appropriate to the complexity and acuity of the patient.
3. Perform basic diagnostic and therapeutic procedures.
4. Effectively communicate clinical data via presentations and documentation.
5. Assess patients and develop care plans that include patient preferences, access, social and structural determinants of health and current scientific evidence for common clinical encounters.
6. Select and interpret appropriate procedures and diagnostic tests.
7. Develop and prioritize differential diagnoses.
8. Counsel and include patients and families in decision-making in a manner that recognizes the impact of social and structural determinants of health.
9. Incorporate principles of preventive health into patient care plans.
10. Identify patients in need of acute, urgent or emergent care, seek assistance, and recommend initial evaluation and management.

Demonstrate and apply knowledge of and employ established and evolving biomedical, clinical, epidemiological, and social-behavioral sciences relevant to patient care and health promotion.

1. Demonstrate foundational knowledge, including basic, clinical, social and health systems science and epidemiology needed for clinical scenarios.
2. Apply foundational knowledge to clinical problem solving, diagnostic reasoning, and decision making in clinical scenarios.
3. Apply knowledge of environmental, social, and structural factors on health and disease to care for patients.
4. Use digital health tools in the provision of patient care (e.g., EMR, telehealth).
5. Conduct scholarly work.

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 care.

1. Work effectively in various health care delivery settings.
2. Contribute to the coordination of patient care within the health system.
3. Identify issues related to patient safety and quality improvement.
4. Apply knowledge of local population and community health needs, disparities and resources to the analysis and delivery of healthcare.
5. Incorporate cost awareness and risk-benefit analysis in patient and/or population-based care.

Demonstrate a commitment to carrying out professional responsibilities and adherence to ethical principles.

1. Demonstrate respect and compassion for peers, patients, care givers, family and team members.
2. Complete duties and tasks in a thorough, reliable and timely manner.
3. Adhere to ethical principles and the values of the profession.
4. Demonstrate sensitivity and responsiveness to a diverse patient population.
5. Respect patient privacy and autonomy.

Demonstrate interpersonal and communication skills that result in the effective exchange of information and collaboration with patients, their families and health professionals.

1. Communicate with patients, caregivers and team members to enhance patient care.
2. Collaborate effectively with colleagues within one’s profession or specialty, other health professionals, and health related agencies.
3. Document patient encounters in the electronic medical record in a comprehensive and timely manner.
4. Demonstrate empathic communication in verbal and non-verbal formats.

Demonstrate the ability to investigate and evaluate the care of patients, to appraise and assimilate scientific evidence, and to continuously improve patient care based on constant self-evaluation and lifelong learning.

1. Solicit and incorporate feedback into learning, clinical skills, and professional development.
2. Access, appraise, and utilize evidence from scientific studies to inform patient care.
3. Develop, implement, and reassess learning and improvement goals.

Recognize and develop approaches to mitigate bias, social inequities, and systemic racism that undermine health and create challenges to achieving health equity at the individual, organizational, and societal level.

1. Identify individual and structural factors that impact health.
2. Work collaboratively with local communities and community organizations to address issues affecting the health and health status of individuals and populations.
3. Identify personal biases and beliefs that may impact patient care and interactions with others on the health care team and work to implement corrective actions.