Skills and Competencies

In the following pages, seven clinical departments describe the training tasks that students undertake as they rotate through the different clerkships. It is through these tasks that students develop the competencies required by each specialty and, ultimately, required by the school for graduation. Students should become aware of the similarities and differences between the different clerkships. While medical knowledge and aspects of clinical skills differ from specialty to specialty, certainly professional behavior, interpersonal skills and communication are universal.

 

 

Competency:

Category:

ILOs:

  1. Medical knowledge.

 

  1. Basic knowledge

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  1. Diagnostic knowledge

 

 

 

  1. Management knowledge

 

  1. Explain the relationship between the symptoms, signs, diagnostic tests, and imaging results of common and significant diseases and their underlying etiology, pathophysiology, structural, and molecular abnormalities.
  2. Analyze bio-psycho-social factors, such as aging, behavior, health care delivery, psychological, cultural, environmental, genetic, and epigenetic, nutritional, social, economic, geographical, religious, and developmental factors, and how they affect the health and disease of specific patients and populations.
  3. Describe the genetic, developmental, metabolic, toxic, microbiologic, autoimmune, neoplastic, degenerative, and traumatic noxious effects on the body and mind.

 

 

 

  1. Recommend  Common Diagnostic and Screening Test
  2. Summarize a Differential Diagnosis Following a Clinical Encounter
  3. Distinguish about the indications and contraindications of each diagnostic test.

 

 

  1. Recognize a Patient in Need of Urgent or Emergent Care and Commence Evaluation and Treatment
  2. Explain evidence-based therapeutic strategies for the prevention, treatment, and palliation of disease
  3. Identify the action, metabolism, and toxic effects of drugs as well as their therapeutic applications, indications, contraindications, and adverse effects.
  4. Apply the multidisciplinary body of biomedical, behavioral, and socioeconomic sciences to clinical analysis, and problem solving
  5. Apply scientific studies related to patients' health problems.
  6. Explain  the principles of health maintenance, education, prevention and screening.
  1. Clinical Skills.

 

  1. Students should be able to gather essential and accurate information about patients and their conditions through history- taking, physical examination.
  2. distinguish between normal and abnormal physical findings.
  3. present patients history and physical findings in a logical and concise manner.

 

 

 

  1. list a differential diagnosis.
  2. formulate plans to more clearly define the diagnosis.
  3. apply effective problem solving strategies to patient care
  4. Continually identify new knowledge, guidelines, standards, technologies, products, or services that have been demonstrated to improve outcomes into patient care.
  5. implement new knowledge, guidelines, standards, technologies, products, or services that have been demonstrated to improve outcomes into patient care.
  6. recognize life threatening emergencies.
  7. initiate appropriate primary evaluation and intervention in  life threatening emergencies.
  8. to outline the management plan for patients under the following categories of care: preventive, acute, chronic, emergency, end of life, continuing and rehabilitative.
  9. To continually reevaluate management plans based on the progress of the patient’s condition and appraisal of current scientific evidence and medical information.

 

 

  1. perform routine and basic medical procedures.
  2. demonstrate the technical  skills required for the procedure
  3. define the anatomy, physiology, indications, risks,  contraindications, benefits, alternatives, and potential complications of the procedure  .  
  4. Communicate with the patient/family to ensure pre–and post- procedure explanation and instructions .
  5. manage post-procedure complications .
  1. Interpersonal and Communication Skills.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  1. Students should be able to demonstrate the psychosocial skills needed to develop trusting relationships with collogues,  patients and health professionals in the community.
  2. acknowledge patient's accomplishments, progress, challenges. And to  express caring, empathy .
  3. listen and give patient undivided attention
  4. Maintain a respectful tone while talking to patients.
  5. collaborate as a member of interprofessional team.
  6. Learn to work effectively as a member or leader of a health care team.
  7. identify preventive health measures.
  8. demonstrate appropriate teaching techniques to patients and serve as an educator who instructs patients in preventive medicine, responsibility for personal health care, and community medicine.
  9. Learn to maintain comprehensive, timely, and legible medical records associated with patient’s care.
  10. Demonstrate the ability to clearly and concisely present oral and written summaries of patients to members of the health care team.
  1. Professionalism.

 

  1. exhibit high ethical standards for medical practice
  2. identify ethical issues that arise in the practice.
  3. respond effectively to ethical issues that arise frequently in the practice.
  4. Demonstrate compassion, integrity and respect towards patients, their families and other staff members.
  5. maintain confidentiality
  6. respect patient’s welfare and autonomy.
  7. obtain informed consent for tests and procedures .
  8. demonstrate sensitivity, honesty and responsiveness to the needs of a diverse patient population, including  sex, gender, age, culture, race, ethnicity, religion, disabilities, and socioeconomic status.
  9. demonstrate commitment to lifelong learning, personal and professional growth.

 

 

College og Medicine,

Palestine Polytechnic University,

Wadi al-haria, Hebron, Palestine

P.O. Box: 198,

Email: dean-medicine@ppu.edu

Telephone: 02-2233050