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P. 6
6. Domain 6 (Area 6) Systems-Based Practice
Description: Graduates must demonstrate an awareness of and responsiveness to the larger context
and system of health care and the ability to effectively call on system resources to provide care that
is of optimal value.
Key Competencies
Competency 1: Recognize different health care systems and their logistics.
Objective 1: Identify health care resources, explain financial planning, and time management, basic
health care economics, cost-benefit analysis, principles of recruitment and appraisal of the current health care
services.
Objective 2: Organize best-practices patient care plans that incorporate referrals to other healthcare
providers and/or health facilities to guarantee best health care needs of the community.
Objective 3: Reflect on administrative and practice management responsibilities commensurate with
one’s role, abilities, and qualifications to help in identifying system errors and implementing potential
solutions.
Competency 2: Advocate for quality patient care with respecting medico-legal issues.
Objective 4: Negotiate surrogate decision-maker for appropriate surrogate decisions, provision and
documentation of care at life’s end, provision of care or the transfer of the unstable patient and what
constitutes medical negligence.
Objective 5: highlight the potential conflicts-of-interest inherent in relationships, including financial
and equity participation with for-profit health care companies such as pharmaceutical companies,
laboratories, imaging centers or rehabilitation centers.
Competency 3: Coordinate health care and community services with diversity of patients.
Objective 6: Delineate the impact of demographic factors on access-to-care, epidemiology of
disease, and response to medication or other therapy.
Objective 7: Clarify the influence of religious beliefs and ethno-cultural viewpoints on the provision of
care and when they may/must be breached.
Objective 8: Be committed to work effectively in various health care delivery settings, situations and
systems relevant to one’s clinical specialty.
Objective 9: Advocate for quality patient care, optimal patient care systems and patient safety.
Summarized distribution of program objectives per competency domain and sub-competencies
No of key No of
Competency Domains %
competencies Objectives
1. Medical Knowledge 3 11 16
2. Patient Care 5 13 19
3. Practice-Based Learning and Improvement 4 12 17
4. Interpersonal and Communication Skills 3 12 17
5. Professionalism 4 13 19
6. Systems-Based Practice 3 9 13
0 22 70 0
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