Tulane University School of Medicine | |
1. Patient Care | |
1.1 | Perform all medical, diagnostic, and surgical procedures considered essential for the area of practice |
1.2 | 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 |
1.3 | Organize and prioritize responsibilities to provide care that is safe, effective, and efficient |
1.4 | Interpret laboratory data, imaging studies, and other tests required for the area of practice |
1.5 | Make informed decisions about diagnostic and therapeutic interventions based on patient information and preferences, up-to-date scientific evidence, and clinical judgment |
1.6 | Develop and carry out patient management plans |
1.7 | Counsel and educate patients and their families to empower them to participate in their care and enable shared decision-making |
1.8 | Provide appropriate referral of patients including ensuring continuity of care throughout transitions between providers or settings, and following up on patient progress and outcomes |
1.9 | Provide health care services to patients, families, and communities aimed at preventing health problems or maintaining health |
2. Knowledge for Practice | |
2.1 | Demonstrate an investigatory and analytic approach to clinical situations |
2.2 | Apply established and emerging biophysical scientific principles fundamental to health care for patients and populations |
2.3 | Apply established and emerging principles of clinical sciences to diagnostic and therapeutic decision-making, clinical problem-solving, and other aspects of evidence-based health care |
2.4 | Apply principles of epidemiological sciences to the identification of health problems, risk factors, treatment strategies, resources, and disease prevention/health promotion efforts for patients and populations |
2.5 | Apply principles of social-behavioral sciences to provision of patient care, including assessment of the impact of psychosocial and cultural influences on health, disease, care-seeking, care compliance, and barriers to and attitudes toward care |
2.6 | Contribute to the creation, dissemination, application, and translation of new health care knowledge and practices |
3. Practice-based Learning and Improvement | |
3.1 | Identify strengths, deficiencies, and limits in one’s knowledge and expertise |
3.2 | Set learning and improvement goals |
3.3 | Identify and perform learning activities that address one’s gaps in knowledge, skills, and/or attitudes |
3.4 | Systematically analyze practice using quality improvement methods |
3.5 | Incorporate feedback into daily practice |
3.6 | Locate, appraise, and assimilate evidence from scientific studies related to patients’ health problems |
3.7 | Use information technology to optimize learning |
3.8 | Participate in the education of patients, families, students, trainees, peers and other health professionals |
3.9 | Obtain and utilize information about individual patients, populations of patients, or communities from which patients are drawn to improve care |
3.10 | Continually identify, analyze, and implement new knowledge, guidelines, standards, technologies, products, or services that have been demonstrated to improve outcomes |
4. Interpersonal and Communication Skills | |
4.1 | Communicate effectively with patients, families, and the public, as appropriate, across a broad range of socioeconomic and cultural backgrounds |
4.2 | Communicate effectively with colleagues within one’s profession or specialty, other health professionals, and health-related agencies |
4.3 | Work effectively with others as a member or leader of a health care team or other professional group |
4.4 | Act in a consultative role to other health professionals |
4.5 | Maintain comprehensive, timely, and legible medical records |
4.6 | Demonstrate sensitivity, honesty, and compassion in difficult conversations, including those about death, end of life, adverse events, bad news, disclosure of errors, and other sensitive topics |
4.7 | Demonstrate insight and understanding about emotions and human responses to emotions that allow one to develop and manage interpersonal interactions |
5. Professionalism | |
5.1 | Demonstrate compassion, integrity, and respect for others |
5.2 | Demonstrate responsiveness to patient needs that supersedes self-interest |
5.3 | Demonstrate respect for patient privacy and autonomy |
5.4 | Demonstrate accountability to patients, society, and the profession |
5.5 | 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 |
5.6 | Demonstrate a commitment to ethical principles pertaining to provision or withholding of care, confidentiality, informed consent, and business practices, including compliance with relevant laws, policies, and regulations |
6. Systems-based Practice | |
6.1 | Work effectively in various health care delivery settings and systems relevant to one’s clinical specialty |
6.2 | Coordinate patient care within the health care system relevant to one’s clinical specialty |
6.3 | Incorporate considerations of cost awareness and risk-benefit analysis in patient and/or population-based care |
6.4 | Advocate for quality patient care and optimal patient care systems |
6.5 | Participate in identifying system errors and implementing potential systems solutions |
6.6 | Perform administrative and practice management responsibilities commensurate with one’s role, abilities, and qualifications |
7. Interprofessional Collaboration | |
7.1 | Work with other health professionals to establish and maintain a climate of mutual respect, dignity, diversity, ethical integrity, and trust |
7.2 | Use the knowledge of one’s own role and the roles of other health professionals to appropriately assess and address the health care needs of the patients and populations served |
7.3 | Communicate with other health professionals in a responsive and responsible manner that supports the maintenance of health and the treatment of disease in individual patients and populations. |
7.4 | Participate in different team roles to establish, develop, and continuously enhance interprofessional teams to provide patient- and population-centered care that is safe, timely, efficient, effective, and equitable |
8. Personal and Professional Development | |
8.1 | Develop the ability to use self-awareness of knowledge, skills, and emotional limitations to engage in appropriate help-seeking behaviors |
8.2 | Demonstrate healthy coping mechanisms to respond to stress |
8.3 | Manage conflict between personal and professional responsibilities |
8.4 | Practice flexibility and maturity in adjusting to change with the capacity to alter one’s behavior |
8.5 | Demonstrate trustworthiness that makes colleagues feel secure when one is responsible for the care of patients |
8.6 | Provide leadership skills that enhance team functioning, the learning environment, and/or the health care delivery system |
8.7 | Demonstrate self-confidence that puts patients, families, and members of the health care team at ease |
8.8 | Recognize that ambiguity is part of clinical health care and respond by utilizing appropriate resources in dealing with uncertainty |
9. Community Engagement and Service | |
9.1 | Describe the social determinants of health and identify how they create barriers to wellness for under-served populations |
9.2 | Use community resources to improve individual and population health |
9.3 | Partner with a community health stakeholder to design, implement, evaluate or enhance an intervention to address at least one social determinant of health |
9.4 | Explain methods of community health assessment |
Originally adopted and approved by the Curriculum Committee (CC) on July 27, 2016. Last reviewed and approved by the CC on September 6, 2023.
