Upon completion of the UCR School of Medicine Residency Program, all residents will have the following skills.

Patient Care

• Demonstrate caring and respectful behaviors.
• Gather essential and accurate patient information.
• Perform an appropriate, accurate, targeted physical exam.
• Develop an appropriate differential diagnosis.
• Make informed decisions based on information, scientific evaluation, and judgment.
• Counsel and educate patients and families.
• Prescribe and perform procedures.
• Develop and carry out patient management plans.
• Provide health maintenance and anticipatory guidance.
• Work within a team.
• Use information technology to optimize patient care decisions.

Medical Knowledge

• Investigate and analyze to acquire knowledge and solve problems.
• Know, apply, and teach basic and clinical science.

Practice-Based Learning & Improvement

• Analyze practice experience and systematically improve it.
• Locate, appraise, and assimilate evidence from the research literature.
• Obtain and use information about individual patients and local populations.
• Apply, design, and use statistical methods to appraise studies.
• Use information technology for lifelong learning.
• Facilitate the learning of others.

Interpersonal & Communication Skills

• Communicate the create and sustain therapeutic relationships with patients.
• Effectively listen, elicit, and provide information.
• Communicate and team effectively with patients and families of diverse cultures and languages.
• Work well with others as a member or leader of a health team or professional group.

Professionalism

• Demonstrate altruism, respect, compassion, and integrity.
• Demonstrate commitment to ethically sound practice (e.g., confidentiality, informed consent, quality, non-discrimination).
• Demonstrate sensitivity to cultural, ethnic, age, sexual orientation, gender and disability issues.
• Demonstrate responsiveness and accountability to patients, society, and the profession.

Systems-Based Practice

• Understand interactions of the UCR Health Family Medicine Center and hospital with the larger health system.
• Know how practice and delivery systems differ (cost, access, etc.).
• Practice cost-effective care and resource allocation without quality loss.
• Advocate for quality and help patients deal with the health care system.
• Understand reciprocity of health care teams, organizations, and society.