NSU HPD Catalog 2024-2025

570 Dr. Kiran C. Patel College of Allopathic Medicine—M.D. Program General Competency Education Program Objectives Practice-Based Learning and Improvement (PBLI): Students will demonstrate the ability to evaluate their professional development and approach to patient care, to appraise and assimilate scientific evidence, and to improve based on selfassessment and lifelong learning. PBLI1: Identify personal strengths and areas for improvement based on self-awareness and feedback from patients, peers, and/or faculty members. PBLI2: Set clear learning and improvement goals to address gaps in knowledge, skills, and/or attitudes. PBLI3: Demonstrate giving and responding to constructive feedback to improve performance of self and others. PBLI4: Identify, critically appraise, and apply evidence from scientific studies to enhance learning and to improve patient care. PBLI5: Use principles of evidence-based medicine to evaluate the efficacy of diagnostic and therapeutic options. PBLI6: Apply knowledge of research design to answer or create a research question with the intent of assessing a hypothesis. Interpersonal Skills and Communication (ISC): Students will demonstrate interpersonal skills and communication that result in the effective exchange of information and collaboration with patients, their families, and health professionals. ISC1: Demonstrate respectful interactions with peers, faculty members, and other health professionals. ISC2: Communicate effectively with patients and families across a broad range of socioeconomic and cultural backgrounds. ISC3: Practice person-centered care, including communication that is driven by, and unique to, the needs of the patient. ISC4: Practice shared decision-making with patients to facilitate their active participation in their health care. ISC5: Communicate effectively through oral presentations and written documentation. ISC6: Communicate and engage with other health professionals in a responsive and responsible manner that supports the maintenance of health and the treatment of diseases in individual patients and populations. Ethics and Professionalism (EP): Students will carry out professional responsibilities with the highest standards of excellence and integrity and adherence to ethical principles. EP1: Identify approaches to support the needs, dignity, privacy, and autonomy of the patient. EP2: Describe strategies to recognize and overcome unconscious bias to improve health outcomes. EP3: Demonstrate compassion, honesty, integrity, respect, responsibility, accountability, and self-discipline in relationships with patients, families, peers, faculty members, and others. EP4: Describe the ethical and legal principles governing medical practice and research. EP5: Identify social determinants of health and the impact on health, care seeking, care compliance, barriers to care, and attitudes toward care.

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