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Personal Awareness & Self-Care

Our graduates will demonstrate the capacity to self-reflect on their acculturation to medicine, to assess the impact of their medical school experiences on their evolving personal and professional values and to tend to their own physical and mental health.

Expand the entries below to learn more about benchmarks in these competencies.

 PASC - 1

Describe awareness of personal values, implicit biases, and changes in perspective during the progression through medical school. Define how differences between personal values and the values of team members and patients may result in conflict that affects patient care.

  • Does Not Meet: Does not describe his/her personal values and/or implicit biases.
  • Phase 1 Benchmark: Begins to describe awareness of his/her personal values and implicit biases and their potential adverse impact on patient care and relationships with members of the health care team.
  • Phase 2 Benchmark: Describes his/her implicit biases and personal values and their actual or potential adverse impact on patient care and relationships with members of the health care team, as well as changes in perspective which accompany his/her progression in medical school.
  • Phase 3 Benchmark: Describes his/her implicit biases and personal values and their actual or potential adverse impact on patient care and relationships with members of the health care team, as well as changes in perspective which accompany his/her progression in medical school; describes application of this insight to complex or challenging situations.
  • Aspirational Behavior: Describes his/her implicit biases and personal values and their actual or potential adverse impact on patient care and relationships with members of the health care team, as well as changes in perspective which accompany his/her progression in medical school; describes application of this insight to complex or challenging situations
    and models his/her behavior for team members.

 PASC - 2

Describe the importance of taking steps to optimize physical and mental health to prevent burnout, and the consequences associated with it, such as isolation, depression, and loss of empathy, and describe coping strategies, including seeking appropriate assistance as needed.

  • Does Not Meet: Does not describe preventive or ongoing health needs, whether physical or mental.
  • Phase 1 Benchmark: Describes physical and mental health needs, strategies to maintain balance, and available services to seek assistance, if needed. Discusses ongoing efforts to maintain physical and mental health during meetings with mentor.
  • Phase 2 Benchmark: Describes physical and mental health needs and strategies to maintain balance in demanding situations, including advanced coping mechanisms and seeking appropriate assistance, when needed. Discusses ongoing efforts to maintain physical and mental health during meetings with mentor.
  • Phase 3 Benchmark: Describes physical and mental health needs and strategies to maintain balance in demanding situations, including advanced coping mechanisms and seeking appropriate assistance, when needed. Describes awareness that symptoms of burnout vary by individual, and attempts to identify those symptoms if he/she has experienced burnout. Discusses ongoing efforts to maintain physical and mental health during meetings with mentor.
  • Aspirational Behavior: Maintains balance in demanding situations and is able to identify colleagues at risk of burnout and assist them with risk reduction and seeking appropriate assistance.

 PASC - 3

Create a thoughtful and deliberate plan for identifying areas of medicine that fit personal goals and abilities through full participation in professional development activities, such as writing a personal statement, a curriculum vitae, and seeking assistance from advisors.

  • Does Not Meet: Does not participate in required professional development activities.
  • Phase 1 Benchmark: Participates in professional development activities.
  • Phase 2 Benchmark: Participates in required professional development activities and describes areas of medicine which fit his/her goals and abilities.
  • Phase 3 Benchmark: Identifies a specialty choice in an area of medicine which fits
    his/her goals and abilities, participates fully in required professional development activities, such as writing a personal statement and a curriculum vitae, and seeks assistance from advisors.
  • Aspirational Behavior: Identifies a specialty choice in an area of medicine which fits
    his/her goals and abilities and has completed required professional development activities.

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