- Use a patient-centred approach to care of patients and families through exploration of both the disease and illness experienced, understanding the whole person, and negotiating informed shared decision making regarding management.
- Provide continuity of care to a patient population through coordination, advocacy and interdisciplinary collaboration in a variety of settings.
- Demonstrate an understanding of the process of repatriating a patent in one’s practice after a referral process, including ongoing communications with the specialist(s) or institution(s) involved.
- Demonstrate knowledge of disease processes including undifferentiated presentations, differential diagnoses, diagnostic confirmations and management across the lifespan.
- Differentiate between normal range of experiences and pathological presentations.
- Use a multi-faceted approach to treatment.
- Diagnose and treat serious complications and adverse effects of medications.
- Demonstrate strategies to aid in the management of ‘clinical uncertainty’ and ‘clinical dissonance’.
- Distinguish between serious illness and minor medical concerns and take appropriate action including telephone triage, referring and consulting.
- Perform an appropriate assessment of patients using skilled interviewing and physical examination techniques in gathering clinical data.
- Demonstrate the ability to manage patients with complex and multiple problems.
- Demonstrate an ethical approach to the patient-doctor relationship, maintaining a respectful, non-judgmental focus.
- Demonstrate awareness that illness and disability makes patients vulnerable.
- Discuss the potential effects of power in the relationship of the physician with the patient, the patient’s family, and community.
- Assist the patient to express their own beliefs and values in solving ethical issues.
- Exhibit ethical decision-making such as discussion of capacity of patients to make decisions.
- Demonstrate an understanding of informed consent.
- Discuss issues involved in relaying medical information to the extended family.
- Demonstrate strategies for lifelong learning given that the knowledge of family medicine is vast and rapidly changing.
- Demonstrate application of evidence-based medicine to daily clinical practice.
- Analyze the communities or environments in which patients live and work with regards to their impact on patient health.
- Demonstrate the application of basic occupational disability prevention and management principles and practices in clinical settings.
- Demonstrate an understanding of the impact of occupation on the health of an individual and the impact of health on work.
- Differentiate multiple roles a physician may play in the community and the potential for role conflict.
- Discuss the role of primary health care in Canada and globally as an essential tool towards improving and maintaining the health of people locally and globally.
- Describe community-based care resources and rehabilitation services available.
- Describe the spectrum of institutional care options available.