The IAU College of Medicine M.D. Program requires students to achieve competence in the six domains listed below. This core set of competencies has been organized into the same set of competency domains adopted by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME).
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General Competency |
Educational Program Objective (The graduate will be able to…) |
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Medical Knowledge |
Engage in clinical reasoning to solve clinical problems |
| Apply knowledge of fundamental sciences to clinical problems | |
| Recognize the central importance of discovery and understand the scientific foundations of medicine, and apply that understanding to the practice of evidence-based medicine |
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Patient Care |
Gather complete and focused histories in an organized fashion, appropriate to the clinical situation and specific population |
| Conduct relevant, complete, and focused physical exams | |
| Present encounters including reporting of information and development of an assessment and plan efficiently and accurately | |
| Document encounters including reporting of information and development of an assessment and plan efficiently and accurately | |
| Perform common procedures safely and correctly with attention to patient’s comfort | |
| Follow universal precautions and sterile technique | |
| Demonstrate confidence and efficacy with the primary provider role in the acute and ambulatory settings and the provision of longitudinal care | |
| Manage and prioritize patient care tasks for a group of patients | |
| Anticipate patients’ needs, conduct discharge planning, and create individualized disease management and/or prevention plans including patient self-management and behavior change |
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Systems-Based Practice |
Participate effectively as a member of the healthcare team with physicians and healthcare providers |
| Understand basic principles of healthcare delivery, organization and finance, how costs affect healthcare delivery, and incentives methods for controlling costs |
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Professionalism |
Form doctor-patient relationships demonstrating sensitivity and responsiveness to culture, race/ethnicity, age, socioeconomic status, gender, sexual orientation, spirituality, disabilities, and other aspects of diversity and identity, and advocate for care for the underserved |
| Demonstrate respect, compassion, accountability, dependability, and integrity when interacting with peers, healthcare providers, patients, and families | |
| Be responsive to the needs of patients and society and appropriately balance these needs with one’s own | |
| Show accountability and reliability in interactions with patients, families, and other health professionals | |
| Practice ethically and with integrity, including maintaining patient confidentiality, obtaining appropriate informed consent, and responding to medical errors | |
| Adhere to institutional and professional standards and regulation for personal, patient and public safety, adhere to principles of ethical research, and manage conflicts of interest |
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Interpersonal and Communication Skills |
Establish collaborative and constructive relationships with patients and families |
| Communicate effectively with patients and families of diverse background and cultures | |
| Effectively and empathetically discuss serious, sensitive, and difficult topics | |
| Share information and negotiate treatment plans with patients and their families | |
| Elicit and address patients’ concerns, needs and preferences and incorporate them into management plans | |
| Communicate effectively with diverse patients and ensure patient understanding | |
| Present patient information efficiently in an organized, accurate, and logical fashion appropriate for the clinical situation, including assessment and plan | |
| Communicate oral and written clinical information that accurately and efficiently summarizes patient data | |
| Communicate effectively and respectfully with all members of the interprofessional team involved in a patient’s care |
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Practice-Based Learning and Improvement |
Use information technology to access online medical information, manage information, and assimilate evidence from scientific studies in patient care |
| Identify clinical questions as they emerge in patient care activities and identify and apply evidence relevant to answering those questions | |
| Appraise, assimilate, and apply scientific evidence from the literature to the care of individual patients | |
| Apply clinical evidence appropriately in patient care | |
| Critically reflect on one’s own performance to identify strengths and challenges, set individual learning and improvement goals, and engage in appropriate learning activities to meet those goals | |
| Employ strategies for seeking and incorporating feedback from all available resources | |
| Use a portfolio to document professional and personal development in the IAU College of Medicine MD competencies |