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Relevant Auckland MBChB Learning Outcomes

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4.4: Explain the main principles of ethical practice and apply these to learning scenarios in clinical practice. Communicate effectively about ethical issues with patients, family and other healthcare professionals.
MBChB Graduate Learning Outcomes
 Clinical and Communication Skills
Graduates will, with a culturally competent, empathetic patient-centred approach and with skills appropriate for the stage and setting of practice:
 •  Competently inform and educate patients and their families.
 •  Communicate sensitively and effectively with patients, their families and colleagues using a process of shared decision-making where appropriate;
 Personal and Professional Skills
 •  Practise ethically and with regard to medicolegal obligations;
 •  Practise self-reflection in personal and professional settings;
 •  Work as a constructive and collaborative health care team member and as a leader for elements of health care, with respect for complementary skills and competencies;
MBChB 221: Principles of Medicine
 Clinical and Communication Skills
5 •  Discuss how cultural issues along with counselling and ethical principles guide patient care, using examples from clinical genetics.
MBChB 321: Professional and Clinical Skills 2
 Personal and Professional Skills
11 •  Demonstrate the ability for ethical reasoning about medical dilemmas
MBChB 401: Anaesthesiology
 Clinical and Communication Skills
5 •  gain informed consent for an anaesthetic;
MBChB 401: General Practice
 Personal and Professional Skills
4 •  Listening and talking with patients and colleagues;
 •  Respecting the strengths and weaknesses of views different from your own while maintaining personal integrity;
 •  Admitting to others when you have made a mistake or when you have incomplete knowledge on certain topics;
MBChB 401: General Medicine
 Clinical and Communication Skills
4 •  Communicate information to patients and families in a clear manner
MBChB 401: Specialty Medicine
 Personal and Professional Skills
5 •  Practise ethically and with regard to medicolegal obligations;
 •  Maintain appropriate boundaries with patients and other team members.
MBChB 401: Geriatrics
 Clinical and Communication Skills
3 •  Identify and discuss areas of controversy in patient management.
 Personal and Professional Skills
6 •  Develop respect for patient autonomy and rights of the older patient, by acquisition/clarification of knowledge of legal and ethical aspects of care pertaining to older people;
MBChB 401: Palliative Medicine
 Clinical and Communication Skills
 •  Explain common ethical dilemmas related to decision-making in an acutely unwell patient with known chronic illness, including those relating to the advantages and disadvantages of investigations, treatment and non-intervention.
MBChB 501: General Practice
 Clinical and Communication Skills
3Develop skills for shared decision making with patients.
 •  Explain the importance of patient goals in achieving the best clinical outcome.
 •  Identify specific patient values with particular attention to practicing in a culturally diverse community.
 Personal and Professional Skills
6 •  Share patient experiences with a group of colleagues, using self-reflective practice to improve professional skills.
MBChB 501: Obstetrics & Gynaecology
 Personal and Professional Skills
9 •  Demonstrate ethical decision making including obtaining appropriate consent from patients and families.
MBChB 501: Paediatrics
 Personal and Professional Skills
5 •  Use ethical decision making including obtaining appropriate consent from families.
MBChB 501: Psychiatry
 Clinical and Communication Skills
4 •  Inform and educate patients and their families.
 •  Communicate with patients and families using a clear and sensitive approach.
 Personal and Professional Skills
5 •  Consider the ethical implications during decision making.
 •  Demonstrate capacity for critical thinking and constructive self-criticism.
MBChB 501: Formal Learning Yr 5
 Ethics Symposium: Primnum non tacere: “First, be not silent”
 •  Explain the importance of speaking up
 •  Distinguish potential ethical conflicts that may arise within professional relationships
 •  Identify and engage with the ethical dimension of medicine across diverse settings
 •  Summarise the ethical essentials to practice responsible medicine
 Professionalism in Practice and the PPS Portfolio Made Easy
 •  Demonstrate self-awareness, awareness of impact on others
 •  Identify appropriate help-seeking behaviours for self and others
 Hauora Māori
 •  Identify approaches to address the wider determinants of health including racism
MBChB 551: General Practice
 Applied Science for Medicine
 •  Medical, social and psychological principles are incorporated in the GP consultation.
MBChB 551: General Medicine
 Personal and Professional Skills
 •  Limits in knowledge and skills are identified and action taken to correct these.
 •  Responsibility for decision making at appropriate levels is developed, while recognising the need for assistance.
MBChB 551: Psychiatry
 Personal and Professional Skills
 •  Ethical implications of psychiatric decision-making and ramifications of use of Mental Health Act are considered.