Internal Medicine Rotation
Assessment
Mid-Rotation Assessment
Mid-Rotation Assessment
Domains assessed: Fund of Knowledge, Knowledge Integration, History taking, Clinical Examination, Clinical Management, Learning Skills, Communication Skills, Professional Responsibility and Integrity, Pursuit of Excellence and Insight, Personal Interactions. Essential Clinical Encounters review.
Curriculum Block
Clerkship / Internal Medicine Rotation
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Objectives
Clerkship Objectives
- Demonstrate the ability to operate electronic patient information systems.
- Write prescriptions accurately (under supervision).
- Develop a management plan including: Pharmacologic treatment and non-pharmacologic treatment.
- Assess for risk of drug interactions (including an approach to polypharmacy in the elderly)
- Assess for risk of iatrogenic complications (including increased risk among the elderly).
- Participate in a care plan discussion with a patient understanding the role of shared-decision making.
- Understand the roles of and collaborate with allied health professionals in a patient’s care.
- Assess a patient’s competence to make decisions regarding therapy.
- Undertake discharge planning including arranging and communicating follow-up plans.
- Consider the concepts of resource stewardship and high value care in making treatment decisions.
- Monitor for response to therapy including compliance and potential adverse effects.
- Consider legal and/or ethical issues as well as psychosocial aspects in deciding on an appropriate treatment.
- Identify resources to help determine appropriate treatment options for common and uncommon medical problems.
- Demonstrate timely and effective communication with patients, caregivers, and community care teams including primary care physicians.
- Demonstrate the application of newly acquired knowledge into patient care.
Tags
Curriculum Block
Clerkship
Internal Medicine Rotation
Discipline
Internal Medicine
McMaster Program Competencies
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
8.2 Practice flexibility and maturity in adjusting to change with the capacity to alter one’s behaviour
8.3 Develop the ability to use self-awareness of knowledge, skills, and emotional limitation to seek help appropriately
8.4 Demonstrate awareness and acceptance of different points of view
MeSH
Clinical Clerkship [I02.358.399.450.110]
Internal Medicine [H02.403.429]
