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5. Domain 5 (Area 5) Professionalism

Description: Graduates must demonstrate a commitment to carrying out professional responsibilities,

adherence to ethical principles, and sensitivity to a diverse patient population.
Key Competencies

Competency 1: Cope with career demands with suitable balance with personal and family life.

Objective 1: Emphasize and always consolidate the definitions, core values and concepts of
professionalism.

Objective 2: Recognize their value as a professional health care provider who will serve in different
demographics and provide appropriate role modeling that values timely attendance, punctuality, and reliability
in duty performance.
Objective 3: Role model honesty and integrity with all academic and student responsibilities and
implement duties and rules of good doctor practice and doctor attire as well as avoiding smoking, alcohol and
substance abuse, and obligations that may harm physician career.

Objective 4: Role model integrity, altruism, and respect for community needs (awareness,
campaigns, health education and continuous medical education) and ability to differentiate between
appropriate and inappropriate deals, interests, benefits or gifts.

Competency 2: Respect and protect patients’ rights with advocacy for the interests of patients and
society.

Objective 5: Evaluate patient’s autonomy, serve as the patient’s advocate, with great care for
placing the patient's needs before one's own needs and making balance between patient privacy rights and
student rights to learn.
Objective 6: Realize patient confidentiality and need for patient’s permission prior to release of
information to anyone, as well as situations in which the breach of confidentiality is mandated by law, and
what information may be divulged under those circumstances.
Objective 7: Demonstrate respect, sensitivity, and responsiveness to patient diversity (culture, age,
race/ethnicity, gender and disability), provide same standards of quality for all patients, regardless of ability to
pay and realize the civic organization engagement to help in community health needs.

Competency 3: Adhere to principles of medical ethics and laws.

Objective 8: Determine ethical issues and potential conflicts between the needs of individual patients
and those of society, and practice resource allocation and rationing
Objective 9: Propose solutions to moral, ethical and legal problems, considering different ethno-
socio-cultural viewpoints and religious beliefs as well as knowledge of the laws and regulations pertaining to
profession.
Objective 10: Demonstrate awareness of issues and requirements pertaining to the use of human
subject in research and what constitutes research fraud as well as ethical principles pertaining to provision or
withholding of care, or termination of care; and futile care.

Competency 4: Deal with others with honesty, integrity, and respect.

Objective 11: Delineate the difference between appropriate and inappropriate touching, professional
distance and communication styles at different levels. .
Objective 12: Role model integrity, altruism, and respect for others (peers, faculty, patients, society,
and the profession) with careful approach in personal matters.
Objective 13: Reflect on the others' level of impairment or shortage, in context of the available
resources and propose solution options.

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