Medical Interviewing

• Describe the components and demonstrate the ability to conduct a medical interview.
• Identify strengths and weaknesses in your interviewing skills.
• Describe a patient-centered and a doctor-centered interview.
• Describe effective techniques for eliciting a patient’s cultural and health beliefs.
• Define the characteristics and qualities of the physician-patient relationship.
• Recognize the importance of the Doctor-patient relationship in patient outcomes.
• Evaluate Pediatric, Adolescent, Adult, and Geriatric patients with common complaints.
• Build a complete medical history.

Oral and Written Presentation Skills

• Describe the components of an oral presentation.
• Present a patient’s story.
• Describe the components of the written patient history.
• Transcribe a patient history.

Behavioral Science in Medical Practice

• Discuss Culture and the influence Culture has on adherence and outcomes.
• Discuss psychological, socio-cultural, socioeconomic and behavioral factors influencing health, illness and patient care.
• Discuss the human life cycle in terms of normal development, identifying age-appropriate tasks physically, cognitively, psychologically, and socially.
• Describe appropriate mechanisms for nurturing, disciplining, and mentoring children.
• Application of basic psychological concepts and theories of human behavior.
• Discuss health care resources and methods patients’ use while also receiving traditional allopathic care (e.g., traditional healers, folk/home remedies).
• Describe the signs and symptoms of common psychiatric disorders (e.g., depression and alcohol dependence) seen in medical practice.
• Describe and experience transference and counter-transference and suggest ways to cope with transference and counter-transference.

Medical Informatics Skills

• Be aware of and to be able retrieve information.
• • Become familiar with and be able to retrieve information from standard medical resources.
  • Formulate and execute effective search strategies using the Ovid Search Engine
  • Evaluate Internet websites.
  • Be knowledgeable understand and accept Copyright and the Teach Act as part of medical education and as an individual.

Life-long, Self-directed Learning Skills

• Demonstrate the ability to self-identify areas of knowledge and skill deficiencies.
• Demonstrate the ability to acquire new information and teach others.
• Demonstrate the ability to apply newly acquired information to learning contexts.
• Recognize high quality or reliable sources for information.

Patient Care and Professional Development

• Describe what professionalism means for a physician.
• Promote altruism and dutifulness in self and others
• Demonstrate professionalism in patient care and educational settings through demeanor, appropriate communication, and dress.
• Participate with cooperation, integrity and a collegial manner with peers and instructors.
• Demonstrate respect and compassion for patients, classmates and faculty.
• Demonstrate openness to opinions and different cultures.
• Offer and accept instructive feedback.
• Initiate an understanding and self-reflection of the psychological, socio-cultural and familial factors influencing your behaviors as a person, student doctor and a physician.

Community-based Medicine

• Identify issues related to health care systems and the pharmacology industry in the community.
• Identify the art of medicine by exposure to health care providers from multiple disciplines and backgrounds.