Professional Behavior

By the time of graduation, all students will be able to:

  1. Demonstrate the ability to foster a positive, healthy professional identity encompassing conscientiousness, excellence, and a commitment to personal growth through the incorporation of new knowledge, skills and behaviors based on self-evaluation and life-long learning.
  2. Demonstrate the professional qualities expected of a physician, including empathy, compassion, compliance, punctuality, reliability, responsibility, appropriate demeanor, honesty, and teamwork.
  3. Engage in behaviors that exemplify humility, value diversity, and foster an inclusive and equitable environment free of bias.
  4. Display ethical behavior, including a respect for patient privacy and autonomy and informed consent.
  5. Demonstrate the ability to engage in an interprofessional team in a manner that optimizes safe, effective patient- and population-centered care.
  6. 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.