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Principal Educational Goal for Undergraduate Medical School Education
The principal goal is to foster development of knowledge, skills, attitudes, and values that effectively prepare students to enter post-graduate training in a rapidly changing healthcare environment.
Medical School Objectives
Physicians must be altruistic
Graduates will have demonstrated the following:
1. Knowledge of the bases governing ethical decision making.
2. Compassionate patient care and respect for the privacy and dignity of their patients.
3. Honesty and integrity in all interactions with patients’ families, colleagues, and others with whom physicians must interact professionally.
4. An understanding of, and respect for, the roles of other health care professionals, and of the need to collaborate with others in providing care for individuals and populations.
5. An understanding of the threats posed by conflicts of interest in medical practice.
6. The capacity to recognize and accept limitations in one’s knowledge and clinical skills.
Physicians must be knowledgeable
Graduates will have demonstrated the following:
1. Knowledge of normal structure and function and embryonic development of the body.
2. Knowledge of the molecular, biochemical, and cellular mechanisms regulating homeostasis.
3. Knowledge of molecular, biochemical, and cellular mechanisms underlying the pathology of diseases.
4. Knowledge of pathologic changes in structure and function of organ systems as a result of disease.
5. Knowledge of scientific methods to investigate the causation of disease and evaluate efficacy of traditional and non-traditional therapies.
6. Knowledge of mechanisms of drug action, pharmacokinetic parameters, pharmacodynamics, and pharmocotherapeutics.
7. Skills for life-long learning.
8. Knowledge of the psychological, social, or cultural factors that may significantly impact health.
Physicians must be skillful
Graduates will have demonstrated the following:
1. The ability to obtain an accurate medical history, including such related issues as age, gender, and socioeconomic status.
2. The ability to perform a both comprehensive and organ system specific examinations, including a mental status examination.
3. The ability to perform routine technical procedures including at a minimum venipuncture, inserting an intravenous catheter, arterial puncture, lumbar puncture, insertion of an nasogastric tube, insertion of a Foley catheter, and suturing lacerations.
4. The ability to interpret the results of commonly used diagnostic tests with recognition of their limitations.
5. Knowledge of the most frequent clinical, laboratory, roentgenologic, and pathologic manifestations of common maladies.
6. The ability to reason deductively in solving clinical problems.
7. The ability to construct appropriate diagnostic and management strategies for patients with common conditions, both acute and chronic, including medical, psychiatric, and surgical conditions, as well as those requiring short- and long-term rehabilitation.
8. The ability to recognize patients with life threatening conditions and to participate in the initial course of management.
9. Knowledge about relieving pain and ameliorating suffering.
10. The ability to communicate effectively and kindly with patients, their families, and members of the healthcare team.
Physicians must be dutiful
Graduates will have demonstrated the following:
1. The ability to recognize the important non-biological determinants (such as economic, psychological, social, and cultural factors) contributing to poor health.
2. The ability to recognize the epidemiology of common medical disorders within a defined population, and the systematic approaches useful in reducing the incidence and prevalence of those disorders.
3. The ability to identify factors that place individuals at risk for disease or injury, to select appropriate tests for detecting patients at risk for specific diseases or in the early stage of disease, and to determine strategies for responding appropriately.
4. The ability to retrieve, manage and utilize biomedical information for solving problems and making decisions relevant to the care of individuals and health of populations.
5. The ability to recognize effective approaches to the organization, financing, and delivery of health care to all individuals.