Nine Competencies
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1. Effective Communication
2. Basic Clinical Skills
3. Using Science to Guide, Diagnosis, Management, Therapeutics and Prevention
4. Lifelong Learning
5. Self-Awareness, Self-Care and Personal Growth
6. Social and Community Contexts of Health Care
7. Moral Reasoning and Ethical Judgment
8. Problem Solving
9. Professionalism and Role Recognition
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Competency Basics
Shank JC, Zoppi K. The well trained resident. In: Holloway R (ed), Clinics of North America. New York: Saunders, 2001.
Zoppi K, Epstein R. Es la communicacion una habilidad? Las habilidades communicativas para mantener una Buena relacion. ANALES. Sis San Navarra 2001, Vol. 24, Suplemento 2.
Zoppi K, Epstein R. Is Communication a Skill?
Fam Med
. 2002 34(5):319-324.
Zoppi K. Theoretical influences on the teaching of behavioral sciences. In: Resource Manual for Behavioral Sciences. Kansas City, MO, STFM Publications, 1999.
Competency Methodologies
Mretz J, Sodomka P, Zoppi K. The clinical environment and patient advocacy. In: Earp J, French E (eds), Patient Advocacy. (forthcoming)
Zoppi K, Epstein R. Interviewing in medical settings. In: Gubrium J, Holstein J (ed.), Handbook of Interview Research, Sage Publications Beverly Hills, 2001:355-383.
Competency Implementation
Dankoski ME, Kramer J, Pais S, Renshaw SE, Zoppi K. Using counseling practicum to teach core skills and evaluate competence in family medicine residents.
Ann Behav Sci Med Ed
. Fall 2005.
Suchman A, Williamson P, Litzelman D, Frankel R, Mossbarger D, Inui T, and the Relationship-centered Care Initiative Discovery Team. Towards an Informal Curriculum that Teaches Professionalism: Transforming the Social Environment of a Medical School.
J Gen Intern Med 2004
. (19):501-4.
Competency Assessment
Epstein R, Lang F, Marvel M, Mauksch L, Post D, Pryzbylski M, Schirmer J, Zoppi K. Assessing communication competence, Family Medicine, May 2005.
Competency Integration in Basic Science Courses
Bosin T, Near J, Watkins J. Inclusion of a competency-based curriculum in medical pharmacology.
Naunyn-Schmeideberg’s Arch. Pharmacol
. 2002;366:26-29.
Foley JG, Mescher AL, Neff A, O’Loughlin VD, Schroeder DM, Watkins JB. Anatomy in a competency-based curriculum.
FASEB J
. 2000;14(4):A309.
Martin BJ, Ramsey JW, Watkins JB. Evaluating the metabolic syndrome in a medical physiology laboratory.
Adv Physiol Edu
. 2004 28:195-8.
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