Please refer to the CFPC Family Medicine Professional Profile and the CFPC Themes of Professionalism.
- Exhibit day to day behaviour that is responsible, reliable and trustworthy.
- Recognize limits of clinical competence and seek help appropriately.
- Operate with a flexible, open-minded approach that is resourceful and deals with uncertainty.
- Demonstrate confidence without arrogance, and does so even when needing to obtain further information or assistance.
- Act in a caring and compassionate manner.
- Show respect for patients in all ways, maintain appropriate boundaries and demonstrate committed to patient wellbeing.
- Demonstrate effective time management, appropriate availability and willingness to assess performance.
- Demonstrate respect for colleagues and team members.
- Display commitment to societal and community well-being.
- Show commitment to personal health and seek balance between personal life and professional responsibilities.
- Demonstrate a mindful approach to practice by maintaining composure/equanimity, even in difficult situations and by engaging in thoughtful dialogue about values and motives.
- Act in an ethical and honest manner.
- Collaborate and facilitate ethical decision making with patients, families and other health care workers/spiritual caregivers when ethical dilemmas arise.
- Recognize cultural and gender differences in values and demonstrate awareness of how past personal and professional experiences may affect decision making.
- Consider the role of power in interactions with the patient, the patient’s family, and community.
- Outline the Canadian Medical Association’s Code of Ethics.
- Explain the role of professional ethicists and ethics committees and suggest when and how to call on them for assistance.
- Interpret the core principles of medical ethics (autonomy, beneficence, non-maleficence, justice) as they apply to clinical encounters.
- Apply appropriate medical, ethical, and medico-legal frameworks to decision making.
- Explain the regulations around terminating physician-patient relationship.
- Demonstrate knowledge of child protection issues.
- Demonstrate knowledge about patient confidentiality, informed consent, competence and substitute decision makers, about proper interaction with law enforcement agencies and about the role of the medical examiner’s office.
- Demonstrate knowledge of relevant jurisprudence (e.g., Mental Health Act, Duty to Disclose, Apology Act, Health Professions Act).
- Discuss the effect of legal considerations in the application of ethics