By the time of graduation, all students will be able to:
- Demonstrate effective verbal, nonverbal, and written communication skills; and build collaborative and trusting relationships with patients, their families, and all members of the health care team while delivering patient care.
- Demonstrate clinical reasoning and problem-solving skills in the care of individual patients and appropriately use emerging physician support systems/tools/technologies ethically, transparently, and with accountability.
- Gather essential and accurate information about patients and their conditions through history-taking, physical examination; and the use of laboratory data, imaging, and other tests.
- Demonstrate competence in routine manual skills.
- Continually seek out, critically evaluate, and apply emerging knowledge, guidelines, standards, technologies, and services that have been shown to improve patient care and health outcomes.
- Demonstrate the ability to investigate and evaluate one’s care of patients, to appraise and assimilate scientific evidence, and to seek guidance where appropriate, to continuously improve patient care.
- Demonstrate an awareness of and responsiveness to the larger context and system of health care, as well as the ability to call effectively on other resources in the system to provide optimal health care.