By the time of graduation, all students will be able to:
I. Apply the multidisciplinary body of biomedical, behavioral, and socioeconomic sciences to clinical analysis and problem solving.
II. Describe the etiology, pathogenesis, structural and molecular alterations as they relate to the signs, symptoms, laboratory results, imaging investigations and causes of common and important diseases.
III. Incorporate bio-psycho-sociocultural factors including aging, behavior, health care delivery, psychological, cultural, environmental, genetic and epigenetic, nutritional, social, economic, geographical, religious, and developmental; and their effects on the health and disease of individual patients and populations into clinical reasoning.
IV. Utilize evidence-based therapeutic strategies for the prevention, treatment, and palliation of disease.
V. Locate, appraise, and assimilate evidence from scientific studies related to patients' health problems.