Overview

Overview

The philosophy of CCLCM is that assessment should enhance learning. As such, you are provided feedback on your progress in basic science, research and clinical disciplines from multiple sources. This feedback allows you to identify your own strengths and weaknesses in comparison to defined, expected standards of performance.

No grades or comprehensive exams are given. Rather, you will submit essays and supporting evidence of your achievement of the nine competency milestones to the Medical Student Performance and Review Committee to inform promotion recommendations to the next year.

This competency assessment is similar to the assessments used in residency training in the U.S. as mandated by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME).

The nine competencies are:

  • Research and Scholarship: Demonstrates knowledge and skills required to interpret, critically evaluate, and conduct research.
  • Knowledge for Practice:  Demonstrates knowledge of established and evolving biomedical, clinical, epidemiological and social-behavioral sciences as well as the application of this knowledge to patient care.
  • Interpersonal and Communication Skills:  Demonstrates effective listening, written and oral communication skills with patients, peers, faculty and other health care professionals in the classroom, research, and patient care settings.
  • Professionalism:  Demonstrates commitment to high standards of ethical, respectful, compassionate, reliable and responsible behaviors in all settings, and recognizes and addresses lapses in professional behavior.
  • Personal and Professional Development:  Demonstrates the qualities required to sustain lifelong personal and professional growth.
  • Patient Care:  Demonstrates proficiency in clinical skills and clinical reasoning; engages in patient-centered care that is appropriate, compassionate and collaborative in promoting health and treating disease.
  • Teamwork and Interprofessional Collaboration:  Demonstrates knowledge, skills and attitudes to promote effective teamwork and collaboration with health care professionals across a variety of settings.
  • Systems Based Practice:  Demonstrates an understanding of and responsiveness to health care systems, as well as the ability to call effectively on resources to provide high value care.
  • Reflective Practice:  Demonstrates habits of ongoing reflection and analysis to both identify learning needs, increase self-awareness and continuously improve performance and personal growth.
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