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McMaster Program Competencies

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

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Activities

Ethics - Consent
PC Session

Part 1 / Professional Competencies 1 / Week 2

Ethics - Confidentiality
PC Session

Part 1 / Professional Competencies 1 / Week 4

Communication Skills 1
PC Session

Part 1 / Professional Competencies 1 / Week 6

Ethical Decision-making
PC Session

Part 1 / Professional Competencies 1 / Week 7

Introduction to History Taking
Clinical Skills Sessions

Part 1 / Medical Foundation 1 / Introduction to Medicine / Week 2

Introduction to Effective Physician-Patient Communication
Clinical Skills Sessions

Part 1 / Medical Foundation 1 / Introduction to Medicine / Week 3

End of Life Care-Part 2 (Archived)
Large Group Session

Part 1 / Medical Foundation 1 / Hematology

Communication Skills 2
PC Session

Part 2 / Professional Competencies 2 / Week 3

Narrative in Medicine
PC Session

Part 2 / Professional Competencies 2 / Week 5

Introduction to Indigenous People's Health
PC Session

Part 2 / Professional Competencies 2 / Week 6

Shalini Mehta MF3 Reproduction
Tutorial

Part 3 / Medical Foundation 3 / Reproduction and Pregnancy / Week 1

Rachel Kowalski MF3 Reproduction
Tutorial

Part 3 / Medical Foundation 3 / Reproduction and Pregnancy / Week 2

Rosemary and Tony MF3 Reproduction
Tutorial

Part 3 / Medical Foundation 3 / Reproduction and Pregnancy / Week 3

Communication Skills 3
PC Session

Part 3 / Professional Competencies 3 / Week 2

LGBTQ2S Health
PC Session

Part 3 / Professional Competencies 3 / Week 3

Using Evidence-Based Medicine at Point of Care Part 2
PC Session

Part 3 / Professional Competencies 3 / Week 9

Ethical Issues in Reproductive Health Care
PC Session

Part 3 / Professional Competencies 3 / Week 10

Lauren Bick MF3 Endocrinology
Tutorial

Part 3 / Medical Foundation 3 / Gastroenterology and Nutrition / Week 4

Riley Walker MF3 Endocrinology
Tutorial

Part 3 / Medical Foundation 3 / Endocrinology / Week 3

Chantal Landry MF3 Reproduction
Tutorial

Part 3 / Medical Foundation 3 / Endocrinology / Week 4

Substance Use Disorders
Active Large Group Session

Part 4 / Medical Foundation 4 / Brain and Behaviour

Developmental Disabilities
e-Learning Module

Part 4 / Medical Foundation 4 / Brain and Behaviour

Mental Health Law (Archived)
Large Group Session

Part 4 / Medical Foundation 4 / Brain and Behaviour / Week 1

Mental Status Exam Part 1 (Archived)
Large Group Session

Part 4 / Medical Foundation 4 / Brain and Behaviour / Week 1

MSE part 1: Assessment of mood and anxiety
e-Learning Module

Part 4 / Medical Foundation 4 / Brain and Behaviour / Week 1

Intro to the Mental Status Exam
e-Learning Module

Part 4 / Medical Foundation 4 / Brain and Behaviour / Week 1

Suicide Risk Assessment
Clinical Skills Sessions

Part 4 / Medical Foundation 4 / Brain and Behaviour / Week 2

MSE part 3: Assessment of suicide and violence risk
e-Learning Module

Part 4 / Medical Foundation 4 / Brain and Behaviour / Week 2

Personality Disorders
Active Large Group Session

Part 4 / Medical Foundation 4 / Brain and Behaviour / Week 3

Assessment of Psychosis & Delirium
Clinical Skills Sessions

Part 4 / Medical Foundation 4 / Brain and Behaviour / Week 3

MSE part 2: Assessment of psychosis
e-Learning Module

Part 4 / Medical Foundation 4 / Brain and Behaviour / Week 3

Form 1 of the Mental Health Act
e-Learning Module

Part 4 / Medical Foundation 4 / Brain and Behaviour / Week 3

Teaching OSCE (Psychology)
Clinical Skills Sessions

Part 4 / Medical Foundation 4 / Brain and Behaviour / Week 4

Shelley Williams MF4 Brain and Behaviour
Tutorial

Part 4 / Medical Foundation 4 / Brain and Behaviour / Week 4

Ryan Smith MF4 MSK
Tutorial

Part 4 / Medical Foundation 4 / Musculoskeletal Medicine / Week 1

Gayle Parker MF4 MSK
Tutorial

Part 4 / Medical Foundation 4 / Musculoskeletal Medicine / Week 1

Jane Young MF4 MSK
Tutorial

Part 4 / Medical Foundation 4 / Musculoskeletal Medicine / Week 3

Communication Skills 4
PC Session

Part 4 / Professional Competencies 4 / Week 5

Medical Colonialism and Access to Healthcare for Indigenous People
PC Session

Part 4 / Week 6

Ethical Issues in End-of-Life Care
PC Session

Part 4 / Professional Competencies 4 / Week 7

Medical/Legal Issues
PC Session

Part 4 / Professional Competencies 4 / Week 12

Arielle D
Tutorial

Part 5 / Integration Foundation

Godlewski Family IF Host Defence and Neoplasia
Tutorial

Part 5 / Integration Foundation / Host Defense and Neoplasia / Week 3

From White Coat to Blue Gown
PC Session

Part 5 / Professional Competencies IF / Week 2

Brain Death and Organ Donation
PC Session

Part 5 / Professional Competencies IF / Week 4

Serious Illness Conversations
PC Session

Part 5 / Professional Competencies IF / Week 5

Addictions
PC Session

Part 5 / Professional Competencies IF / Week 6

Recognizing and Responding to Intimate Partner Violence (IPV)
PC Session

Part 5 / Professional Competencies IF / Week 7

Trauma Informed Care
PC Session

Part 5 / Professional Competencies IF / Week 8

Patient Safety
PC Session

Part 5 / Professional Competencies IF / Week 10

Adrian Scholtz Part 2
Tutorial

Part 5 / Integration Foundation / Maternal Health Risks/Aging-Related Care / Week 4

Joe and Maria Russo IF Age-Related Health Care
Tutorial

Part 5 / Integration Foundation / Maternal Health Risks/Aging-Related Care / Week 3

Henry Baker IF Chronicity and Complexity
Tutorial

Part 5 / Integration Foundation / Complexity and Chronicity / Week 1

Hannah Rosen Part 2 IF Chronicity and Complexity
Tutorial

Part 5 / Integration Foundation / Complexity and Chronicity / Week 4

Examination: Trauma and burn
Clinical Exposure

Clerkship / Emergency Medicine Rotation

Emergency Medicine Clerkship
Clinical Exposure

Clerkship / Emergency Medicine Rotation

Emergency Medicine Triage Shift
Clinical Exposure

Clerkship / Emergency Medicine Rotation

Family Medicine Palliative Case
e-Learning Module

Clerkship / Family Medicine Rotation

Family Medicine Clinical Placement
Preceptor

Clerkship / Family Medicine Rotation

Family Medicine Geriatric Case
e-Learning Module

Clerkship / Family Medicine Rotation

Participate in a discussion on end-of-life care.
Essential Clinical Experience

Clerkship / Family Medicine Rotation / Internal Medicine Rotation

Internal Medicine Clinical Exposure
Clinical Exposure

Clerkship / Internal Medicine Rotation

Obstetrics and Gynecology Rotation (Hospital)
Clinical Exposure

Clerkship / Obstetrics and Gynecology Rotation

Obstetrics and Gynecology Rotation (Ambulatory)
Clinical Exposure

Clerkship / Obstetrics and Gynecology Rotation

Pediatrics Clerkship
Clinical Exposure

Clerkship / Pediatrics Rotation

Participate in a discussion regarding the impact of stigma upon patients with mental illness.
Essential Clinical Experience

Psychiatry Rotation

Psychiatry Clerkship
Clinical Exposure

Clerkship / Psychiatry Rotation

Psychiatric Emergency Service
Clinical Exposure

Clerkship / Psychiatry Rotation

Participate in a discussion in which "bad news" is communicated to a patient or family.
Essential Clinical Experience

Emergency Medicine Rotation / Surgery Rotation

Professional Competencies in Surgery
Small Group Session

Clerkship / Surgery Rotation

Surgery Clerkship
Clinical Exposure

Clerkship / Surgery Rotation

Orthopedic Surgery Clerkship
Clinical Exposure

Clerkship / Orthopedic Surgery Rotation

Medical Subspecialty Selectives
Clinical Exposure

Clerkship / Medical Subspecialty Selective

Dorothy Little MF4 Neoplasia (Archived)
Tutorial

Assessments

MF 2 Reflection
PC Reflective Physician Portfolio

Part 2 / Professional Competencies 2

MF 3 Reflection
PC Reflective Physician Portfolio

Part 3 / Professional Competencies 3 / Week 9

IF Reflection
PC Reflective Physician Portfolio

Part 4 / Professional Competencies 4 / Week 12

MF 4 Reflection
PC Reflective Physician Portfolio

Part 5 / Professional Competencies IF / Week 9

Giving Bad News / Advocacy
Clerkship Reflection Paper

Clerkship / Emergency Medicine Rotation

Psychiatry Clerkship Clinical Placement
Preceptor Evaluation

Clerkship / Psychiatry Rotation

Psychiatric Emergency Service
Preceptor Evaluation

Clerkship / Psychiatry Rotation

Communicate in difficult situations
Direct Observation Tool

Clerkship / Family Medicine Rotation / Psychiatry Rotation

Medical Subspecialty Selectives
Final Rotation Assessment

Clerkship / Medical Subspecialty Selective

Objectives

Discuss the ethical, moral and psychological implications of a positive prenatal screening test.
General Objectives

Part 3 / Medical Foundation 3 / Reproduction and Pregnancy

Upon completion of this problem, students should be able to explain the mechanisms that regulate puberty and explain the etiology of precocious puberty.
Global Objectives

Part 3 / Medical Foundation 3 / Reproduction and Pregnancy

Upon completion of this problem, students should be able to define infertility, to discuss its underlying causes and to describe a basic diagnostic approach to its evaluation. The student should be able to describe the psychological and sexual impacts of infertility.
Global Objectives

Part 3 / Medical Foundation 3 / Reproduction and Pregnancy

Upon completion of this problem, students will be able to define conception, normal and abnormal implantation and early pregnancy failure. Students will also review available options for contraception and their mechanisms of action and efficacy.
Global Objectives

Part 3 / Medical Foundation 3 / Reproduction and Pregnancy

Upon completion of this problem, students will recognize prenatal screening and diagnosis in reproduction.
Global Objectives

Part 3 / Medical Foundation 3 / Reproduction and Pregnancy

Upon completion of this problem, students are expected to describe the key developmental milestones of the peri-pubertal stage and the nutritional requirements of the adolescent and the impact of extreme lifestyle behaviours on growth and nutritional health of adolescents. Students will describe common presentations of eating disorders.
Global Objectives

Part 3 / Medical Foundation 3 / Endocrinology

Upon completion of this problem, students should be able to describe the production of steroid hormones and to interpret the implications of steroidogenic enzyme deficiencies on embryologic development and postnatal health. Students will also have reviewed the inheritance of Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia, discussed related genetic counselling, and considered a patient-centered approach to caring for intersex patients.
Global Objectives

Part 3 / Medical Foundation 3 / Endocrinology

Disorientation and memory disturbance.
General Objectives

Part 4 / Medical Foundation 4 / Brain and Behaviour

Identify the risk factors for suicide.
Activity Objectives

Part 4 / Medical Foundation 4 / Brain and Behaviour

Describe how to assess for suicide risk.
Activity Objectives

Part 4 / Medical Foundation 4 / Brain and Behaviour

By the completion of this presentation attendees will be aware of questions to use in a suicide risk assessment.
Activity Objectives

Part 4 / Medical Foundation 4 / Brain and Behaviour

Upon completion of this problem, students will be able to describe musculoskeletal embryology and normal limb development, and explain the assessment and management of congenital foot abnormalities in children.
Global Objectives

Part 4 / Medical Foundation 4 / Musculoskeletal Medicine

Upon completion of this case, students will be able to describe spinal deformities and their implications in children.
Global Objectives

Part 4 / Medical Foundation 4 / Musculoskeletal Medicine

Upon completion of this problem, students will be able to explain key concepts in Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis (JIA).
Global Objectives

Part 4 / Medical Foundation 4 / Musculoskeletal Medicine

Demonstrate the specific skills for interacting with and responding to patients who present moderate communication challenges (anger; anxiety; values different from the students’ own).
General Objectives

Professional Competencies IF

Summarize the concepts, principles, and research evidence that support the importance and efficacy of developing communication and interpersonal skills in medicine.
General Objectives

Professional Competencies 1 / Professional Competencies 2 / Professional Competencies 3 / Professional Competencies IF

Demonstrate the acquisition of communications skills (defined by the Kalamazoo Consensus Statements as a set of conscious and behavioural norms) required to build a therapeutic relationship, to conduct an interview with a patient, to communicate about a patient, and to communicate about medicine and science.
General Objectives

Professional Competencies 3 / Professional Competencies IF

Explain the legal obligations of physicians to report concerns regarding driving safety, with a focus on the importance of cognition.
General Objectives

Part 5 / Integration Foundation / Maternal Health Risks/Aging-Related Care

Explain how the concept of frailty impacts decision-making, goals of care, and care recommendations in older adults.
General Objectives

Part 5 / Integration Foundation / Maternal Health Risks/Aging-Related Care

Upon completion of this problem, the student should be able to describe chronic pain in a biopsychosocial framework which recognizes nociceptive, neuropathic, cognitive-perceptual, brain and behaviour and socio-environmental factors.
Global Objectives

Part 5 / Integration Foundation / Complexity and Chronicity

Describe the medical and ethical principles of organ transplantation and living and deceased donation.
General Objectives

Part 5 / Integration Foundation / Complexity and Chronicity

Describe chronic pain in a biopsychosocial framework which recognizes nociceptive, neuropathic, cognitive-perceptual, brain and behaviour and socio-environmental factors.
General Objectives

Part 5 / Integration Foundation / Complexity and Chronicity

Practice effective communication including the use of empathy, non-verbal communication and respectful counseling with patients and their families.
Clerkship Objectives

Clerkship / Emergency Medicine Rotation

Provide clear discharge instructions for patients, including return to care instructions and ensure appropriate follow-up care.
Clerkship Objectives

Clerkship / Emergency Medicine Rotation

End of Life Management
Clerkship Objectives

Clerkship / Integration Foundation / Family Medicine Rotation

Participate in a discussion on end-of-life care.
Essential Clinical Experience

Clerkship / Family Medicine Rotation / Internal Medicine Rotation

Take a history from a geriatric patient with special emphasis on physical and mental functioning.
Clerkship Objectives

Clerkship / Internal Medicine Rotation

Perform a physical examination and functional assessment on an elderly patient, adapting it to possible conditions of frailty, mobility, hearing loss, memory loss and other impairments.
Clerkship Objectives

Clerkship / Internal Medicine Rotation

Perform a mental status examination to evaluate confusion and/or memory loss in an elderly patient.
Clerkship Objectives

Clerkship / Internal Medicine Rotation

Participate (with guidance and supervision) in breaking bad news to patients.
Clerkship Objectives

Clerkship / Internal Medicine Rotation

To develop the skills to perform an appropriate sexual health history procedures.
Clerkship Objectives

Clerkship / Obstetrics and Gynecology Rotation

To identify and demonstrate the management of abnormal labour.
Clerkship Objectives

Clerkship / Obstetrics and Gynecology Rotation

To describe the approach to the management of patients presenting with a history of domestic violence.
Clerkship Objectives

Clerkship / Obstetrics and Gynecology Rotation

To demonstrate communication skills appropriate to the sensitive and personal nature of the specialty.
Clerkship Objectives

Clerkship / Obstetrics and Gynecology Rotation

To develop communication skills that encourages a positive experience during pregnancy and delivery for the patient and her family.
Clerkship Objectives

Clerkship / Obstetrics and Gynecology Rotation

To recognize the personal nature of the interactions with both obstetrical and gynaecologic patients.
Clerkship Objectives

Clerkship / Obstetrics and Gynecology Rotation

Participate in a discussion regarding the impact of stigma upon patients with mental illness.
Essential Clinical Experience

Clerkship / Psychiatry Rotation

Conduct a general interview: learn specific skills that convey empathy. Take a psychiatric history in an empathic manner that enables the assessment of relevant psychological, medical and social factors. Adapt their interview techniques to deal with common sorts of "special" situations/patients (e.g., children, the elderly, those who don't speak English, those with communication or cognitive problems, use of interpreters, family members for collateral, etc.). Adapt their interview techniques to deal with common sorts of "challenging" styles (e.g., silent, over-talkative, angry, seductive, suspicious, passive, dependent, defensive, evasive patients, or those who deny they need help).
Clerkship Objectives

Clerkship / Psychiatry Rotation

Participate in a discussion in which "bad news" is communicated to a patient or family.
Essential Clinical Experience

Clerkship / Emergency Medicine Rotation / Surgery Rotation / Orthopedic Surgery Rotation

For the following disorders the student will interpret the information provided and synthesize an appropriate basic management plan including:
Clerkship Objectives

Clerkship / Orthopedic Surgery Rotation

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.
Clerkship Objectives

Clerkship / Medical Subspecialty Selective

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.
Clerkship Objectives

Family Medicine TTR / Clerkship / Family Medicine Rotation

Participate in discussions (with guidance and supervision) about the basic issues regarding advanced directives and/or end-of-life care with patients and their caregivers.
Clerkship Objectives

Internal Medicine TTR / Clerkship / Internal Medicine Rotation

Acknowledge/demonstrate the principals of dealing with challenging communication issues including: obtaining informed consent, delivering bad news, disclosing adverse medical events, and addressing anger, confusion, and misunderstanding.
Clerkship Objectives

Pediatrics TTR / Clerkship / Pediatrics Rotation

Assess and manage other psychiatric emergencies/crises and acute presentations: toxidromes and withdrawal; overdoses: (e.g. TCA, acetaminophen); severe drug reactions: NMS, sertonin syndrome, dystonia; medical conditions with possible psychiatric presentation (e.g. catatonia, delirium)
Clerkship Objectives

Psychiatry TTR / Clerkship / Psychiatry Rotation

Broaden their Procomp experience by observing a discussion obtaining consent for surgery with a patient, an explanation of an adverse event or ‘bad news’ to a patient, and/or positive examples by mentors dealing with challenges to ethics, communication or professionalism.
Clerkship Objectives

Surgery TTR / Clerkship / Surgery Rotation / Transition to Residency

Identify, reflect on, and discuss with peers a “Procomp Moment” during your surgical clerkship that involved communication, consent, adverse event, professional behavior, personal health, or medical student role in the hierarchy.
Clerkship Objectives

Surgery TTR / Clerkship / Surgery Rotation / Transition to Residency

How to distinguish sporadic cancers from hereditary cancers, and current practices in genetic counseling and clinical management of people at increased risk for hereditary cancers.
General Objectives

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4. 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.

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