Medical Subspecialty Selectives
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 / Medical Subspecialty Selective
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Objectives
Clerkship Objectives
- 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.
- 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.
- Professionalism: Demonstrate a commitment to carrying out professional responsibilities and an adherence to ethical principles.
- Demonstrate compassion, integrity, and respect for others.
- Demonstrate responsiveness to patient needs that supersedes self-interest.
- Demonstrate respect for patient privacy and autonomy.
- Demonstrate accountability to patients, society, and the profession.
- 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.
- Systems-Based Practice: Demonstrate an awareness of and responsiveness to the larger context and system of health care, as well as the ability to call effectively on other resources in the system to provide optimal health care.
- 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 how the clinical supervisors act in a consultative role to other health professionals.
- Inter-professional Collaboration: Demonstrate the ability to engage in an interprofessional team in a manner that optimizes safe, effective patient- and population-centered care.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Personal and Professional Development: Demonstrate the qualities required to sustain lifelong personal and professional growth.
- 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.
- Learn how to apply principles of social-behavioral sciences to provision of patient care, including assessment of the impact of psychosocial and cultural influences on health, disease, care-seeking, care compliance, and barriers to and attitudes toward care.
- Gather essential and accurate information about patients and their conditions through history-taking, physical examination, and the use of laboratory data, imaging, and other tests.
- Learn the importance of medical documentation and how to document clearly and in an organized manner in the patient’s chart.
- Organize and prioritize responsibilities to provide care that is safe, effective, and efficient.
- Learn how to interpret laboratory data, imaging studies, and other tests required for the area of practice.
- Make informed decisions about diagnostic and therapeutic interventions based on patient information and review of up-to-date scientific evidence, and clinical judgment in association with the clinical supervisor.
- Learn how to develop and carry out patient management plans in association with the clinical supervisor.
- Learn how to interact with, counsel and educate patients and their families to empower them to participate in their care and enable shared decision making.
- Provide appropriate referral of patients including ensuring continuity of care throughout transitions between providers or settings, and following up on patient progress and outcomes.
- Learn about the different health care services available to patients in order to provide patients and their families, optimal health care services as well as services aimed at preventing health problems and maintaining health.
- Knowledge for Practice: Demonstrate knowledge of established and evolving biomedical, clinical, epidemiological and social-behavioral sciences, as well as the application of this knowledge to patient care.
- Demonstrate an investigatory and analytic approach to clinical situations.
- Learn how to apply established and emerging bio-physical scientific principles fundamental to health care for patients and populations
- Learn how to apply established and emerging principles of clinical sciences to diagnostic and therapeutic decision-making, clinical problem-solving and other aspects of evidence-based health care.
- Learn how to apply principles of epidemiological sciences to the identification of health problems, risk factors, treatment strategies, resources, and disease prevention/health promotion efforts for patients and populations.
- Patient Care: Provide patient-centered care that is compassionate, appropriate and effective for the treatment of health problems and the promotion of health
- Practice - based Learning and Improvement: Demonstrate the ability to investigate and evaluate one’s care of patients, to appraise and assimilate scientific evidence, and to continuously improve patient care based on constant self-evaluation and life-long learning.
- Identify strengths, deficiencies, and limits in one's knowledge and expertise.
- 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.
- Interpersonal and Communication Skills: Demonstrate interpersonal and communication skills that result in the effective exchange of information and collaboration with patients, their families, and health professionals.
- Communicate effectively with patients and families as appropriate, across a broad range of socioeconomic and cultural backgrounds.
- Communicate effectively with colleagues and other health care professionals.
- Work effectively with others as a member of a health care team.
Tags
Curriculum Block
Clerkship
Medical Subspecialty Selective
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]
