Curriculum Block

Objectives

• Describe how illness presents differently through the life cycle and in the family medicine setting compared to other settings.
• Demonstrate an approach to the diagnosis and management of undifferentiated patient problems that present to family physicians.
• Demonstrate an approach to the diagnosis and management of common patient problems that present to family physicians (see Essential Clinical Encounter presenting problems for Family Medicine).
• Demonstrate effective communication skills in conducting a patient centered interview, including exploring the patient’s illness experience as well as the family and social context.
• Demonstrate an approach to health promotion and disease prevention during patient encounters that reflect best evidence and patient preferences and values.
• Conduct a sensitive, focused physical exam relevant to the patient’s presenting problem.
• Demonstrate effective oral and written communication skills in documenting clinical encounters, making oral case presentations, prescription writing and making referrals to other care providers through clear, concise, efficient communication strategies.
• Demonstrate life long learning practices in providing care to patients.
• Discuss evidence-based approaches to patient care and the challenges of applying guidelines to individual patients.
• Identify and/or communicate with other health care providers and community programs to support and/or optimize patient care.
• Understand the special needs of vulnerable groups related to disparities and inequities in seeking and receiving care. (e.g. Aboriginals, recent immigrants, same-sex relationships, transgendered, marginally housed, disabled, age extremes).
• Discuss common ethical issues in family medicine through the life cycle including topics such as confidentiality, consent and capacity.

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Clerkship Family Medicine Rotation Family medicine 2.1 Demonstrate an understanding of what knowledge is, the strengths and limitations of different ways of knowing, and how knowledge is created in historical, cultural and social contexts. 2.2 Apply biomedical scientific principles fundamental to health care for patients and populations. 2.3 Apply principles of clinical sciences to diagnostic and therapeutic decision-making, clinical problem-solving, and other aspects of evidence-based healthcare 2.4 Apply principles of epidemiological sciences to the identification of health problems, risk factors, treatment strategies, resource allocation, and disease prevention/health promotion efforts for patients and populations 2.5 Apply principles of socio-behavioural sciences to the provision of patient care, including assessment of the impact of psychosocial and cultural influences on health, disease, care-seeking, care concordance, care adherence and barriers to and attitudes toward care. 2.6 Understand the process of the dissemination, application, and translation of new health knowledges and practices. 2.99 Other Knowledge for Practice 3.1 Solicit and respond to feedback from peers, teachers, supervisors, patients, families, and members of health care teams regarding one’s knowledge, skills, attitudes and professional behaviours 3.2 Integrate feedback, external measures of performance and reflective practices to identify strengths, deficiencies, and limits in one’s knowledge, skills, attitudes and professional behaviours 3.3 Set learning and improvement goals 3.4 Identify and perform learning activities that address one’s gaps in knowledge, skills, and/or attitudes 3.5 Understand principles of continuous quality improvement and how to incorporate them into practice improvement 3.6 Locate, appraise, and incorporate evidence from research related to patients’ health problems and the provision of healthcare 3.7 Use information technology and information systems to optimize patient care 3.8 Obtain and use information about individual patients and their caregivers, populations of patients, or communities with which patients identify to improve care 3.9 Continually identify, analyze, and implement new knowledge, guidelines, standards, technologies, products, or services that have been demonstrated to improve outcomes 3.99 Other practice-based learning and improvement