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ACGME Competencies and Required Skills |
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The residency program must require its residents to obtain competencies in the 6 areas below to the level of a new practioner. Towards this end, programs must define the specific knowledge, skills, and attitudes required and provide educational experiances as needed in order for their residents to demonstrate:
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| 1. | Patient Care that is compassionate, appropriate, and effective for the treatment of health problems and the promotion of health | |
| a. | Caring and respectful behaviors | |
| b. | Interviewing | |
| c. | Informed decision-making | |
| d. | Develop & carry out patient management plans | |
| e. | Counsel & educate patients & families | |
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Performance of procedures - Routine physical exam - Medical procedures |
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| g. | Preventive health services | |
| h. | Work within a team | |
| 2. | Medical Knowledge about established and evolving biomedical, clinical, and cognate (e.g. epidemiological and social-behavioral) sciences and the application of this knowledge to patient care | |
| a. | Investigatory and analytic thinking | |
| b. | Knowledge and application of basic sciences | |
| 3. | Practice-Based Learning and Improvement that involves investigation and evaluation of their own patient care, appraisal and assimilation of scientific evidence, and improvements in patient care | |
| a. | Analyze own practice for needed improvements | |
| b. | Use of evidence from scientific studies | |
| c. | Application of research and statistical methods | |
| d. | Use of information technology | |
| e. | Facilitate learning of others | |
| 4. | Interpersonal and Communication Skills that result in effective information exchange and teaming with patients, their families, and other health professionals | |
| a. | Creation of therapeutic relationship with patientss | |
| b. | Listening skillss | |
| 5. | Professionalism, as manifested through a commitment to carrying out professional responsibilities, adherence to ethical principles, and sensitivity to a diverse patient population | |
| a. | Respectful, altruistic | |
| b. | Ethically sound practice | |
| c. | Sensitive to cultural, age, gender, disability issues | |
| 6. | Systems-Based Practice, as manifested by actions that demonstrate an awareness of and responsiveness to the larger context and system of health care and the ability to effectively call on system resources to provide care that is of optimal value | |
| a. | Understand interaction of their practices with the larger system | |
| b. | Knowledge of practice and delivery systems | |
| c. | Practice cost effective care | |
| d. | Advocate for patients within the health care system. | |
