Patient Management Skills
The student graduating from this medical school will be able to:
Manage Patients as a member of the Health Care Team
- Undertake a appropriate informal and formal consultation with physician colleagues
- Participate in appropriate referrals to other health care professionals
- Solicit the advice of other health care team members
- Interact effectively with clinic and hospital support staff
- Appropriately prescribe commonly used medications
- Correctly and competently manage common problems occurring in the inpatient setting
- Correctly and competently manage common problems occurring in the outpatient setting
- Assist with common inpatient and outpatient procedures and surgeries
- Coordinate care for a patient
- Appropriately answer patients questions about their common illnesses
- Participate in advanced care planning for patients
- Appropriately plan discharge for hospitalized patients
- Arrange follow-up for patients
