Office of Education

Competencies and Objectives of the Education Program Effective 2025-26 Academic Year

1. ‎Professionalism and Humanism (PH)
Demonstrates integrity, respect, and ethical reasoning, and promotes inclusion of differences in all interactions to improve health care for patients, communities, and populations. 

2. Patient Care & Procedural Skills (PC)
Demonstrates compassionate, effective, holistic, evidence-informed, and equitable patient-centered care. 

3. Medical Knowledge (MK)
Applies and integrates foundational knowledge to improve health care for patients and populations.

4. Practice Based Learning and Improvement (PBLI)
Integrates feedback, evidence, and reflection to adapt behavior, foster improvement, and cultivate life-long learning.

5. Interpersonal and Communication Skills (ICS)
Effectively communicates and interacts with patients, caregivers, and the health care team to contribute to high-quality patient-centered care. 

6. Systems Based Practice (SBP)
Applies knowledge of the larger context of health, including its social and structural determinants, and of systems and resources within and outside of health care, to optimize high- quality care for patients, communities, and populations.

7. Health Equity (HE)
Recognizes mechanisms to reduce disparities and advance health equity in patients, communities, and health care systems.

8. Discovery and Dissemination (DD) (Phased Implementation in 2026-27)
Applies the scientific principles of clinical and translational research. 

For the 2024-25 AY Goals and Objectives, please click here.