Competencies

General Competencies

Any residency program must require that its residents obtain competence in the six areas listed below to the level expected of a new practitioner. Programs must define the specific knowledge, skills, behaviors, and attitudes required and provide educational experiences as needed in order for their residents to demonstrate the following:

  1. Patient care that is compassionate, appropriate, and effective for the treatment of health problems and the promotion of health.
  2. Medical knowledge about established and evolving biomedical, clinical, and cognate (eg, epidemiological and social-behavioral) sciences and the application of this knowledge to patient care.
  3. Practice-based learning and improvement that involves investigation and evaluation of their own patient care, appraisal and assimilation of scientific evidence, and improvements in patient care.
  4. Interpersonal and communication skills that result in effective information exchange and collaboration with patients, their families, and other health professionals.
  5. Professionalism, as manifested through a commitment to carrying out professional responsibilities, adherence to ethical principles, and sensitivity to a diverse patient population.
  6. Systems-based practice, as manifested by actions that 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.

The Department of Otolaryngology provides each resident a year by year summary of methods to expose and evaluate each resident in the above general competencies.

 

 

 

 

 

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Otolaryngology
Academic Office

336-716-3850

Main Clinic Phone

336-716-4161

Wake Forest School of Medicine
Dept of Otolaryngology
Watlington Hall 4th Fl
Medical Center Blvd
Winston Salem, NC  27157
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