- Advocate with (or on behalf of when appropriate) individual patients with respect to physical, psychological and social health issues.
- Facilitate access to services for all patients, being mindful of the patient with social, economic and/or health barriers.
- Assess barriers to rehabilitation and recovery.
- Identify and encourage patients’ strengths.
- Incorporate relevant health promotion and disease prevention strategies into the clinical encounter including lifestyle assessment, screening and education.
- Support public education which promotes health and prevention of illness and injury.
- Evaluate the health needs of a community and identify at-risk communities.
- Demonstrate awareness of local culture as it pertains to certain medical conditions (e.g. HIV and international work).
- Develop meaningful and trusting relationships to become an advocate for community issues.
- Outline population-based approaches to health care services and their implication for medical practice including impact on individual patients and prioritization to access (e.g mammography, HIV treatment as prevention).
- Address determinants of health as it pertains to the health status of and individual or community.
- Outline services and resources available to meet the needs of patients in the hospital and community and utilize them appropriately.
- Identify barriers to improved health, and accessing resources in the community, and work to ameliorate these barriers.
- Apply knowledge of the health system and community resources to advocate for change (e.g practice-, hospital-, community- or policy-level) to best care for the people they serve.