Mission-Driven MD Program Objectives

Educational Program Objectives (EPOs)

Competency: Patient Care (PC)

Competency Description: Demonstrates ability to perform the core foundational patient care activities with immediately available indirect supervision in the care of patients presenting with core chief concerns and diagnoses.

Objectives: 

PC1. Gathers an accurate and appropriately focused history in an organized manner.

PC2. Conducts an organized, appropriately focused, and correctly performed physical examination and distinguishes normal and abnormal findings.

PC3. Recommends and interprets appropriate diagnostic and screening tests.

PC4. Integrates patient data to formulate an assessment and a prioritized differential diagnosis.

PC5. Proposes a basic preventive and/or therapeutic plan that incorporates evidence-based guidelines, patient values, and social/structural determinants of health.

PC6. Documents a clinical encounter in an appropriate format for the context.

PC7. Presents a concise and clear summary of a clinical encounter that facilitates shared understanding of the patient's condition.

Competency: Medical Knowledge (MK)

Competency Description: Demonstrates acquisition of core medical knowledge.

Objectives: 

MK1. Demonstrates foundational biomedical knowledge across the disciplines of pathology, physiology, pharmacology, biochemistry, anatomy and embryology, histology and cellular biology, and genetics.

MK2. Demonstrates foundational clinical science knowledge across the disciplines of medicine, surgery, pediatrics, obstetrics and gynecology, family medicine, neurology, and psychiatry.

MK3. Demonstrates foundational social science knowledge across the disciplines of behavioral science, ethics, and humanities.

MK4. Demonstrates health systems science knowledge across the disciplines of biostatistics, health care economics and policies, structures and processes, informatics, quality improvement, and patient safety.

Competency: Systems-Based Practice (SBP)

Competency Description: Demonstrates ability to participate effectively in core healthcare system processes.

Objectives: 

SBP1. Participates effectively in coordinating patient care within the healthcare system.

SBP2. Contributes effectively to patient safety and quality improvement initiatives within the healthcare system

Competency: Practice-Based Learning and Improvement (PBLI)

Competency Description: In pursuit of professional growth and improved patient care, demonstrates ability to ask relevant questions, acquire and appraise available evidence, and appropriately apply new knowledge.

Objectives: 

PBLI1. Seeks and integrates performance feedback and relevant data to develop plans for future learning, behavior adaptation, and self-improvement.

PBLI2. Applies an inquiry-oriented and analytic approach to learning and patient care while recognizing the limits of medical science.

Competency: Professionalism (P)

Competency Description: Demonstrates respect, responsibility, integrity, and ethical behavior.

Objectives: 

P1. Demonstrates consistent respect, responsibility, integrity, and ethical behavior in all learning and patient care environments.

Competency: Interpersonal and Communication Skills (ICS)

Competency Description: Demonstrates ability to interact and communicate effectively in learning and patient care environments.

Objectives: 

ICS1. Communicates and interacts effectively with patients, their families, and caregivers.

ICS2. Communicates and interacts effectively with team members in the learning and patient care environments.

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