Commitment to Continuing Professional Development

The student graduating from this school will demonstrate:

  • Strong commitment to learning and scholarship
  • Understanding of the importance of lifelong learning
  • Ability to identify and acknowledge limits of knowledge and skills, including uncertainty
  • Accurate self-assessment
  • Ability to learn from experience and feedback
  • Ability to stay current with medical literature
  • Understanding of Evidence-Based Medicine (EBM) with respect to:
    • Formulating patient-based questions
    • Efficiently searching literature databases
    • Appraisal of quality of studies
    • Applying the results of a literature search to direct patient care