Medical Education Program Objectives

Effective July 27, 2023

PC - PATIENT CARE: Provide patient-centered care that is compassionate, appropriate, andeffective for the treatment of health problems and the promotion of health.

PC.1 - Perform all medical, diagnostic, and surgical procedures considered essential for the area of practice
PC.2 - Gather essential and accurate information about patients and their conditions through history-taking, physical examination, and the use of laboratory data, imaging, and
other tests
PC.3 - Organize and prioritize responsibilities to provide care that is safe, effective, and efficient
PC.4 - Interpret laboratory data, imaging studies, and other tests required for the area of practice
PC.5 - Make informed decisions about diagnostic and therapeutic interventions based on patient information and preferences, up-to-date scientific evidence, and clinical judgment
PC.6 - Develop and carry out patient management plans
PC.7 - Counsel and educate patients and their families to empower them to participate in their care and enable shared decision-making
PC.8 - Provide health care services to patients, families, and communities aimed at preventing health problems or maintaining health

MK - MEDICAL KNOWLEDGE - Demonstrate knowledge of established and evolving biomedical, clinical, epidemiological, and social-behavioral sciences, as well as the application of this knowledge to patient care

MK.1 - Demonstrate an investigatory and analytic approach to clinical situations
MK.2 - Apply established and emerging bio-physical scientific principles fundamental to health care for patients and populations
MK.3 - Apply established and emerging principles of clinical sciences to diagnostic and therapeutic decision-making, clinical problem-solving, and other aspects of evidence-based health care
MK.4 - Apply principles of epidemiological sciences to the identification of health problems, risk factors, treatment strategies, resources, and disease prevention/health promotion efforts for patients and populations
MK.5 - Apply principles of social-behavioral sciences to provision of patient care, including assessment of the impact of psychosocial and cultural influences on health, disease, care seeking, care compliance, and barriers to and attitudes toward care.
MK.6 - Contribute to the creation, dissemination, application, and translation of new health care knowledge and practices

PBLI - PRACTICE-BASED LEARNING AND IMPROVEMENT: Demonstrate the ability to investigate and evaluate one's care of patients, to appraise and assimilate scientific evidence, and to continuously improve patient care based on constant self-evaluation and life-long learning

PBLI.1 - Identify strengths, deficiencies, and limits in one's knowledge and expertise.
PBLI.2 - Set learning and improvement goals
PBLI.3 - Identify and perform learning activities that address one's gaps in knowledge, skills, and/or attitudes
PBLI.4 - Incorporate feedback into daily practice
PBLI.5 - Locate, appraise, and assimilate evidence from scientific studies related to patients' health problems
PBLI.6 - Use information technology to optimize learning
PBLI.7 - Participate in the education of patients, families, students, trainees, peers, and other health professionals
PBLI.8 - Obtain and utilize information about individual patients, populations of patients, or communities from which patients are drawn to improve care

ICS - INTERPERSONAL AND COMMUNICATION SKILLS: Demonstrate interpersonal and communication skills that result in the effective exchange of information and collaboration with patients, their families, and health professionals

ICS.1 - Communicate effectively with patients, families, and the public, as appropriate, across a broad range of socioeconomic and cultural backgrounds
ICS.2 - Communicate effectively with colleagues within one's profession or specialty, other health professionals and health related agencies
ICS.3 - Work effectively with others as a member or leader of a health care team or professional group
ICS.4 - Maintain comprehensive, timely, and legible medical records.
ICS.5 - Demonstrate sensitivity, honesty, and compassion in difficult conversations, including those about death, end of life, adverse events, bad news, disclosure of errors, and other sensitive topics
ICS.6 - Demonstrate insight and understanding about emotions and human responses to emotions that allow one to develop and manage interpersonal interactions

PRO - PROFESSIONALISM - Demonstrate a commitment to carrying out professional responsibilities and an adherence to ethical principles

PROF.1 - Demonstrate compassion, integrity, and respect for others
PROF.2 - Demonstrate respect for patient privacy and autonomy
PROF.3 - Demonstrate accountability to patients, society, and the profession.
PROF.4 - Demonstrate sensitivity and responsiveness to a diverse patient population, including but not limited to diversity in gender, age, culture, race, religion, disabilities, and sexual orientation
PROF.5 - Demonstrate a commitment to ethical principles pertaining to provision or withholding of care, confidentiality, informed consent, and business practices, including compliance with relevant laws, policies, and regulations

SBP - SYSTEMS BASED PRACTICE: 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.

SBP.1 - Work effectively in various health care delivery settings and systems relevant to one's clinical specialty
SBP.2 - Coordinate patient care within the health care system relevant to one's clinical specialty
SBP.3 - Incorporate considerations of cost awareness and risk-benefit analysis in patient and/or population-based care
SBP.4 - Advocate for quality patient care and optimal patient care systems
SBP.5 - Participate in identifying system errors and implementing potential systems solutions

IPE - INTERPROFESSIONAL COLLABORATION: Demonstrate the ability to engage in an interprofessional team in a manner that optimizes safe, effective patient- and population- centered care.

IPE.1 - Work with other health professionals to establish and maintain a climate of mutual respect, dignity, diversity, ethical integrity, and trust
IPE.2 - Use the knowledge of one's own role and the roles of other health professionals to appropriately assess and address the health care needs of the patients and populations served
IPE.3 - Communicate with other health professionals in a responsive and responsible manner that supports the maintenance of health and the treatment of disease in individual patients and populations
IPE.4 - Participate in different team roles to establish, develop, and continuously enhance interprofessional teams to provide patient- and population-centered care that is safe, timely, efficient, effective, and equitable

PPD - PERSONAL AND PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT: Demonstrate the qualities required to sustain lifelong personal and professional growth

PPD.1 - Develop the ability to use self-awareness of knowledge, skills, and emotional limitations to engage in appropriate help-seeking behaviors
PPD.2 - Demonstrate healthy coping mechanisms to respond to stress
PPD.3 - Manage conflict between personal and professional responsibilities
PPD.4 - Participate in different team roles to establish, develop, and continuously enhance interprofessional teams to provide patient- and population-centered care that is safe, timely, efficient, effective, and equitable
PPD.5 - Practice flexibility and maturity in adjusting to change with the capacity to alter one's behavior
PPD.6 - Demonstrate trustworthiness that makes colleagues feel secure when one is responsible for the care of patients
PPD.7 - Provide leadership skills that enhance team functioning, the learning environment, and/or the health care delivery system
PPD.8 - Recognize that ambiguity is part of clinical health care and respond by utilizing appropriate resources in dealing with uncertainty

DEI - Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion: Demonstrate an awareness of, and responsiveness to interpersonal bias and systemic inequities in healthcare in preparation to provide equitable care for diverse patient populations

DEI.1 - Objectively describe the social determinants of health and identify how barriers may be addressed to improve wellness for underserved populations
DEI.2 - Apply knowledge of intersectionality (how aspects of one's identities combine to create unique modes of discrimination and oppression) by collaborating with patients to optimize health, health behaviors, and the experience with the health system
DEI.3 - Regularly assess how one’s intersectional identities, biases, and privilege influence patients, families, communities, and all members of the health care team
DEI.4 - Engage in allyship and being an active bystander/upstander to address injustices for both patients and colleagues