Students must demonstrate compassionate, evidence-informed, effective, and equitable patient-centered care. Competencies include:

• Gather essential and accurate information about patients and their conditions through history-taking, physical examination, and the use of laboratory data, imaging, and other diagnostic tests
• Interpret laboratory data, imaging studies, and other tests required for the area of practice
• Make informed decisions about diagnostic and therapeutic interventions
• Perform medical, diagnostic, and surgical procedures considered essential for the area of practice
• Counsel and educate patients and their families so that they can participate in their care and enable shared decision making
• Provide appropriate referral of patients, including a focus on continuity of care, throughout transitions between providers or settings, and following up on patient progress and outcomes
• Provide health care services to patients, families, and communities aimed at maintaining health and well-being

Students must apply and integrate foundational, clinical, and social sciences knowledge to improve health care for patients and populations. Competencies include:

• Apply knowledge of biomedical sciences to care for patients.
• Apply established and emerging principles of clinical sciences to diagnostic and therapeutic decision-making, clinical problem-solving, and other aspects of evidence- based health care.
• Apply principles of public and population health to the identification of health problems, risk factors, treatment strategies, resources, and disease prevention/health promotion efforts for patients and populations.
• Apply principles of social-behavioral sciences to the delivery of health care.
• Create and present a scholarly product related to the field of medicine.

Students must integrate feedback, evidence, and reflection to adapt behavior, foster improvement, and cultivate lifelong learning. Competencies include:

• Locate, appraise, and assimilate evidence from scientific studies related to patients' health problems.
• Demonstrate situational and self-awareness by identifying one’s strengths, deficiencies, and limits in knowledge and abilities to guide thinking and behavior in the practice of medicine.

Students must demonstrate integrity, respect, and ethical reasoning, and promote inclusion in all interactions to improve health care for patients, communities, and populations. Competencies include:

• Demonstrate ethical principles in the care of patients.
• Exhibit the behaviors of honesty, integrity, and respect in interactions with peers, staff, faculty, and patients.
• Evaluate one's personal, professional, and educational needs through reflection, and utilize resources to meet those needs.
• Employ strategies for seeking, receiving, acting upon, and delivering feedback.

Students must apply 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 patient, community, and population health.

• Identify and participate in solutions to failures in high-quality, equitable, and optimal patient care. 

Students must effectively communicate and interact with patients, caregivers, and the health care team to contribute to high-quality, patient-centered care. Competencies include:

• Communicate effectively with patients and families across a broad range of socioeconomic and cultural backgrounds.
• Communicate effectively with colleagues within one's profession or specialty, other health professionals, and health-related agencies.
• Maintain comprehensive, timely medical records.
• Identify and participate in implementing solutions to achieve high-quality, equitable, and optimal patient care.

Students must demonstrate an understanding of the health effects of structural racism. This competency includes:

• Demonstrating approaches to mitigate the manifestations of racism, bias, and social inequities.