Patient-Centered Care and Clinical Skills
Graduates are expected to provide patient care that is compassionate, appropriate, and effective for the promotion and maintenance of health and the restoration to health of patients who are ill. The student will have demonstrated the ability to:
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PC1. Form an effective therapeutic relationship with patients, recognizing that the dimensions of diversity include race, ethnicity and culture, socioeconomic status, age, physical and emotional well-being, gender and gender identity, and sexual orientation and that these play major roles in the patient’s approach to health care.
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PC2. Elicit and record a complete and organized history.
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PC3. Perform and record a complete physical examination.
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PC4. Interpret accurately the results of commonly ordered clinical tests, including electrocardiograms, laboratory tests, and radiology studies.
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PC5. Generate and prioritize an initial differential diagnosis, based upon key history, physical, and laboratory findings.
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PC6. Develop evidence-based diagnostic and treatment strategies that are cost-effective using appropriate information technologies.
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PC7. Perform procedures expected of primary care physicians.
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PC8. Identify and initiate initial treatment plans for emergency and life-threatening situations.
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PC9. Make decisions in the context of uncertainty, mindful of the risks of doing so.
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PC10. Apply the principles of pain management to reduce patient suffering.
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PC11. Manage patients, mindful of salient legal, ethical, spiritual, and psychosocial constructs.