Educational Program Objectives

A Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine graduate will be able to:

Medical Knowledge: Establish and maintain medical knowledge necessary for the care of patients (MK)

  • MK.1: Demonstrate knowledge of basic, clinical, pathophysiologic, biopsychosocial, health systems sciences, and humanities, needed for clinical practice.
  • MK.2: Apply foundational knowledge for clinical problem-solving, diagnostic reasoning, and decision-making to clinical scenarios.
  • MK.3: Demonstrate knowledge of research design, interpretation, and application of research outcomes to clinical questions.

Clinical Skills & Diagnostic Reasoning: Demonstrate clinical skills and diagnostic reasoning needed for patient care (CSDR)

  • CSDR.1: Gather complete and hypothesis driven histories from patients, families, and electronic health records in an organized manner.
  • CSDR.2: Conduct complete and hypothesis-driven physical exams interpreting abnormalities while maintaining patient comfort.
  • CSDR.3: Develop and justify the differential diagnosis for clinical presentations by using disease and/or condition prevalence, pathophysiology, and pertinent positive and negative clinical findings.
  • CSDR.4: Develop a management plan and provide an appropriate rationale.
  • CSDR.5: Deliver an organized, clear, and focused oral presentation
  • CSDR.6: Document patient encounters accurately, efficiently, and promptly including independent authorship for reporting of information, assessment, and plan.
  • CSDR.7: Perform common procedures safely and correctly, including participating in informed consent, following universal precautions, and sterile technique while attending to patient comfort.
  • CSDR.8: Identify one’s explicit and implicit biases and implement mitigation strategies to reduce the impact of cognitive biases on decision making and patient care.

Communication: Effectively communicate with patients, families, colleagues and interprofessional team members (C)

  • C.1: Demonstrate the use of effective communication skills and patient-centered frameworks in history taking and physical examination
  • C.2: Explain common diagnostic and therapeutic interventions, assessment, plan, and underlying rationale to patients, families and caregivers and provides counseling and education with attention to patient centered language and health literacy.
  • C.3: Communicate clearly and effectively with colleagues within one’s profession and team, consultants, and other members of the interprofessional team.
  • C.4: Communicate effectively using digital technology, including EMR and telehealth, to optimize decision making and treatment of individuals and across the health care system.

Patient-Centered Care: Practice relationship centered care to build therapeutic alliances with patients and caregivers

  • PCC.1: Demonstrate humanism, integrity, respect, honesty, compassion, accountability, cultural humility, and responsiveness
  • PCC.2: Demonstrate a commitment to ethical principles pertaining to autonomy, confidentiality, justice, equity, and informed consent.
  • PCC.3: Explore patient and family understanding of well-being, illness, concerns, values, and goals in order to develop goal-concordant treatment plans across settings of care.

Personal & Professional Development: Exhibit skills necessary for personal and professional development needed for the practice of medicine (PPD)

  • PPD.1: Demonstrate trustworthiness and responsible behavior needed for the care of patients, including completing duties and tasks in a timely, thorough, and reliable way.
  • PPD.2: Demonstrate awareness of one’s own limitations, seek additional help when needed, display professionalism and flexibility needed to manage the uncertainty inherent to the practice of medicine.
  • PPD.3: Identify opportunities for growth in one’s performance through informed self-assessment and reflective practice, goal setting and actively seeking and incorporating feedback to improve.
  • PPD.4: Locate, critically appraise, and synthesize information to support evidence-informed, patient-centered clinical decisions while implementing new knowledge, guidelines, and technologies demonstrated to improve patient outcomes.

Health Systems: Demonstrate knowledge of health care delivery and systems needed to provide optimal care to patients and populations (HS)

  • HS.1: Work with the interprofessional team, demonstrating respect for the unique cultures, values, roles/responsibilities, and expertise of team members to address the needs of patients and coordinate patient care across healthcare systems.
  • HS.2: Describe patient safety interventions and continuous quality improvement methods that enhance care for patients and populations
  • HS.3: Explain how the healthcare system, health policy, economic factors, prevention efforts, health programs, and community organizations influence the health of individuals and communities.

Health Equity: Exhibit commitment to promoting and advancing health equity for all patients (HE)

  • HE.1: Demonstrate understanding of the historical and current drivers of structural inequities, their impact on healthcare, research, medical decision making and disparities in health outcomes.
  • HE.2: Explain how one’s own identity, lived experiences, privileges, and biases influence their perspectives of colleagues, patients, and clinical decision making.
  • HE.3: Identify and explain potential strategies to reduce health disparities in patients and communities at the individual, local, community, and systems-based levels.

Approved by the Medical Education Committee in February 2025.