Curriculum Block

Objectives

• 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.
• 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.
• Learn about ethical principles pertaining to provision or withholding of care, confidentiality, informed consent, and business practices, including compliance with relevant laws, policies, and institutional and professional regulations.
• Work effectively in various health care delivery settings and systems relevant to one's clinical specialty.
• Incorporate considerations of cost awareness and risk-benefit analysis in patient and/or population-based care.
• Advocate for quality patient care and optimal patient care systems.
• Learn about the importance of identifying system errors and implementing potential systems solutions.
• Learn about the administrative and practice management responsibilities of a physician as part of the faculty of a university and as a practicing physician in a hospital.
• Work with other health professionals to establish and maintain a climate of mutual respect, dignity, diversity, ethical integrity, and trust.
• 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.
• Demonstrate accountability to patients, society, and the profession.
• 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.
• Develop the ability to use self-awareness of knowledge, skills, and emotional limitations to engage in appropriate help-seeking behaviors.
• Demonstrate healthy coping mechanisms to respond to stress.
• Manage conflict between personal and professional responsibilities.
• Practice flexibility and maturity in adjusting to change with the capacity to alter one's behavior.
• Demonstrate trustworthiness that makes colleagues feel secure when one is responsible for the care of patients.
• Learn how physicians provide leadership skills that enhance team functioning, the learning environment, and/or the health care delivery system.
• Demonstrate a strong work ethic, respect and organization that instills confidence in patients, families, and members of the health care team.
• Recognize that ambiguity is part of clinical health care and respond by utilizing appropriate resources in dealing with uncertainty.
• Communicate effectively with colleagues and other health care professionals.
• Set realistic learning objectives and areas of improvement goals.
• Identify and perform learning activities that address one's gaps in knowledge, skills, and/or attitudes.
• Be receptive and be able to incorporate feedback into daily practice.
• Locate, appraise, and assimilate evidence from scientific studies related to patients' health problems.
• Use information technology to optimize learning.
• Participate in the education of patients, families, students, trainees, peers and other health professionals.
• Learn how to obtain and utilize information about individual patients, populations of patients, or communities from which patients are drawn to improve care.
• Learn how to continually identify, analyze, and implement new knowledge, guidelines, standards, technologies, products, or services that have been demonstrated to improve outcome.
• Communicate effectively with patients and families as appropriate, across a broad range of socioeconomic and cultural backgrounds.
• Identify strengths, deficiencies, and limits in one's knowledge and expertise.
• Work effectively with others as a member of a health care team.
• Learn how the clinical supervisors act in a consultative role to other health professionals.
• Maintain comprehensive, organized, timely, and legible medical records.
• 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.
• Demonstrate insight and understanding about emotions and human responses to emotions that allow one to develop and manage interpersonal interactions.
• Demonstrate compassion, integrity, and respect for others.
• Demonstrate responsiveness to patient needs that supersedes self-interest.
• Demonstrate respect for patient privacy and autonomy.

Activities

• Medical Subspecialty Selectives

• Medical Subspecialty Selectives

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Clerkship Medical Subspecialty Selective Internal Medicine 1.1 Gather essential and accurate information about patients and their health through history-taking, physical examination, and the use of laboratory data, imaging, and other tests. 1.2 Organize and prioritize responsibilities to provide care that is safe, effective, and efficient 1.3 Interpret laboratory data, imaging studies, and other tests required for the area of practice 1.4 Make informed decision about diagnostic and therapeutic interventions based on patient information and preferences, up-to-date scientific evidence, and clinical judgment 1.5 Develop and carry out patient management plans 1.6 Perform or assist with medical, diagnostic, and surgical procedures considered essential for the area of practice. 1.7 Counsel and educate patients and their families to empower them to participate in their care and enable shared decision-making 1.8 Provide appropriate referral of patients including ensuring continuity of care throughout transitions between providers or settings, and following up on patient progress and outcomes 1.9 Provide health care services to patients, families, and communities aimed at preventing health problems or maintaining health 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. 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 3.8 Obtain and use information about individual patients and their caregivers, populations of patients, or communities with which patients identify to improve care 4.1 Communicate effectively with patients, families, and the public, as appropriate, across a broad range of socioeconomic and sociocultural backgrounds 4.2 Participate in the education of patients, families, students, trainees, peers and other health professionals 4.3 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 4.4 Demonstrate insight and understanding about emotions and human responses to emotions that allow one to develop and manage interpersonal interactions, including the ability to manage one’s own interpersonal responses 4.5 Maintain comprehensive, timely, and legible medical records 5.1 Demonstrate accountability to patients, society, and the profession 5.11 Demonstrate trustworthiness and reliability that makes colleagues feel secure when one is responsible for the care of patients 5.12 Present oneself professionally to patients, families, and members of the health care team 5.2 Demonstrate compassion, integrity, and respect for others 5.4 Demonstrate respect for patient confidentiality, privacy and autonomy 5.5 Demonstrate sensitivity and responsiveness to a diverse patient population, including all dimensions of diversity such as those that are included in human rights legislation and federal and provincial law. 5.7 Demonstrate the application of ethical principles to commonly encountered ethical issues such as the provision or withholding of care, confidentiality, informed consent, and including compliance with relevant laws, policies, and regulations 5.8 Balance personal values and beliefs with professional and societal ethics 5.9 Maintain appropriate boundaries with patients and other professionals 6.1 Understand the systems of healthcare, including federal, provincial, municipal and local, and the influences they have on the health of individuals and populations 6.2 Identify aspects of the healthcare system that serve as barriers and enablers of providing healthcare to and optimizing the health of patients and the population 6.3 Advocate for quality patient care and optimal patient care systems that support patient- and population-centred care that is safe, timely, efficient, effective, and equitable 6.5 Work effectively in various health care delivery settings and systems relevant to a variety of clinical specialties 6.6 Coordinate patient care within the health care system relevant to a variety of clinical specialties 6.9 Perform administrative and practice management responsibilities commensurate with one’s role, abilities, and qualifications 7.1 Work with other health professionals to establish and maintain a climate of mutual respect, dignity, inclusion, ethical integrity, and trust 7.2 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 7.3 Communicate with other health professionals in a responsive and responsible manner that supports the maintenance of health and the provision of healthcare in individual patients and populations 7.4 Demonstrate the ability to consult with and to other health professionals 7.6 Participate in different team roles and appropriately apply leadership skills to establish, develop, and continuously enhance team function. 8.1 Demonstrate healthy coping mechanisms to respond to stress 8.2 Practice flexibility and maturity in adjusting to change with the capacity to alter one’s behaviour 8.4 Demonstrate awareness and acceptance of different points of view 8.5 Recognize that ambiguity is part of clinical health care and respond by utilizing appropriate resources in dealing with uncertainty