Schoolwide Outcome:

Graduates achieve professional competencies as currently defined by their respective profession.

Objectives: SHP graduates will be able to:

1. Demonstrate appropriate content knowledge as required by either entry-level or post-professional practice
2. Demonstrate clinical, research and/or technical skills necessary for successful performance in the chosen discipline

Program Outcomes:

1. Demonstrate knowledge of established and evolving biomedical, clinical, epidemiological, and social–behavioral sciences, as well as the application of this knowledge to patient care.
2. Locate, appraise, and assimilate evidence from scientific studies related to patients’ health conditions.
3. Demonstrate clinical, research and/or technical skills necessary for successful performance in the chosen discipline
4. Demonstrate appropriate content knowledge as required by either entry-level or post-professional practice

Schoolwide Outcome:

Graduates exhibit professional behaviors such as cultural sensitivity, integrity, respect, compassion, and altruism, and demonstrate excellence in delivery of service and a commitment to their profession.

Objectives: SHP graduates will be able to:

1. Exhibit professional behaviors in all interactions
2. Exhibit a commitment to their profession through professional membership or participation in professional activities, and by interrelating with other professionals
3. Identify and evaluate the impact of culture and diversity on health beliefs, practices, and actions
4. Apply and/or demonstrate leadership principles and strategies in organization or professional settings

Program Outcomes:

1. Demonstrate compassion, integrity, and respect for others
2. Balance coexistence of personal and professional responsibilities
3. Demonstrate respect for patient privacy and autonomy
4. Demonstrate accountability to patients, society, and the profession.
5. Demonstrate sensitivity and responsiveness to a diverse patient population, including but not limited to diversity in gender, age, culture, race, religion, disabilities, and sexual orientation
6. Demonstrate commitment to ethical principles pertaining to provision of care and interaction with the health care community
7. Demonstrate awareness of the importance of self-maintenance of emotional, physical, and mental health
8. Practice flexibility and maturity in adjusting to change with the capacity to alter behavior.
9. Recognize that ambiguity is part of clinical health care and respond by using appropriate resources in dealing with uncertainty

Schoolwide Outcome:

Graduates effectively communicate in oral, written, and technical formats.

Objectives: SHP graduates will be able to:

1. Express concepts in writing using proper grammar and stylistic guidelines
2. Appropriately document health information according to professional standards
3. Demonstrate critical thinking by synthesizing, organizing, presenting, and/or disseminating information following established guidelines at a level appropriate for the target audience
4. Adapt appropriate interactions and/or strategies in order to accommodate diverse audiences

Program Outcomes:

1. Document the medical history in a clear and concise manner using the appropriate format.
2. Document in written form a patient medical record including: HPI, history, ROS, physical examination, assessment, plan and orders.
3. Synthesize information obtained through the history and physical with medical knowledge to create an introductory differential diagnosis, management plan, and orders for acute and chronic conditions.
4. Evaluate patient and develop management plan avoiding bias and with special consideration for disability status or special health care needs, ethnicity and race, gender identity, religion/spirituality, sexual orientation, social determinants of health.

Schoolwide Outcome:

Graduates collaborate with health care team members and other stakeholders to facilitate the attainment of common goals.

Objectives: Within their scope of practice, SHP graduates will be able to:

1. Identify roles and responsibilities of team members in the provision of patient/client/community care
2. Identify opportunities and/or participate with others to set and achieve goals

Program Outcomes:

1. Patient Care: Provide patient care that is compassionate, appropriate, and effective for the treatment of health problems and the promotion of health.
2. Interpersonal and Communication Skills: Demonstrate interpersonal and communication skills that result in the effective exchange of information and collaboration with patients, their families, and health professionals.

Schoolwide Outcome:

Graduates identify, critically evaluate, and practice professional, ethical and legal decision-making.

Objectives: Within their scope of their profession, SHP graduates will be able to:

1. Maintain and/or adhere to professional ethics and legal requirements
2. Articulate ethical and legal decision making practices (process by which an ethical/legal decision was made)
3. Apply ethical and legal principles to Identify breaches of professional ethics or legal requirements

Program Outcomes:

1. Professionalism: Demonstrate a commitment to carrying out professional responsibilities and an adherence to ethical principles; f-Demonstrate a commitment to ethical principles pertaining to provision of care and interaction with the health care community.
2. Systems-Based Practice: Demonstrate an awareness of and responsiveness to the larger context and system of health care, as well as the ability to call effectively on other resources to provide optimal health care; e. Participate in identifying system errors and contribute to a culture of safety and improvement; f- Exhibit an understanding of the legal and regulatory environment.

Schoolwide Outcome:

Graduates incorporate educational strategies into their roles.

Objectives: Within the scope of their profession, SHP graduates will be able to:

1. Identify relevant educational content for a target audience
2. Plan, implement and/or evaluate an educational program appropriate for a target audiences

Program Outcomes:

1. The program curriculum must include instruction in patient evaluation, diagnosis and management. Instruction in patient assessment and management includes caring for patients of all ages from initial presentation through ongoing follow-up. It includes instruction in interviewing and eliciting a medical history; performing complete and focused physical examinations; generating differential diagnoses; and ordering and interpreting diagnostic studies. Patient management instruction addresses acute and longitudinal management. Instruction related to treatment. For each of the disease entities introduced throughout the curriculum, the student will be able to discuss pertinent patient education and counseling.

Schoolwide Outcome:

Graduates apply methods of scientific inquiry and disseminate findings.

Objectives: SHP graduates will be able to:

1. Propose a problem/topic and appropriate methods to investigate it
2. Use systematic search techniques to find and critically appraise research and other sources of evidence
3. Summarize and disseminate findings to appropriate audiences

Program Outcomes:

1. Utilize clinical knowledge and research resources to formulate a hypothesis-driven applied clinical research question
2. Compile information from multiple research articles to prepare a synthesized analysis.
3. Disseminate findings about the research and its application to clinical practice via research paper and a poster presentation.

Schoolwide Outcome:

Graduates identify, critically analyze, and solve a variety of challenges.

Objectives: SHP graduates will be able to:

1. Recognize and respond appropriately to various situations within their discipline regarding clinical, cultural, psychosocial, quality improvement and/or administrative problems
2. Design and/or implement solutions using best evidence and/or practice guidelines
3. Assess outcomes

Program Outcomes:

1. Utilize clinical knowledge and research resources to formulate a hypothesis-driven applied clinical research question
2. Compile information from multiple research articles to prepare a synthesized analysis.
3. Disseminate findings about the research and its application to clinical practice via research paper and a poster presentation.
4. Practice-Based Learning and Improvement: Demonstrate engagement in critical analysis of one’s own practice experience, the medical literature, and other information resources for the purposes of self-evaluation, lifelong learning, and practice improvement.
5. Systems-Based Practice: Demonstrate an awareness of and responsiveness to the larger context and system of health care, as well as the ability to call effectively on other resources to provide optimal health care.
6. Practice-Based Learning and Improvement sub-outcome: Identify quality improvement methods that analyze and change practice; Systems-Based Practice sub-outcome: Participate in identifying system errors and contribute to a culture of safety and improvement
7. Demonstrate engagement in critical analysis of one’s own practice experience, the medical literature, and other information resources for the purposes of self-evaluation, lifelong learning, and practice improvement.

Schoolwide Outcome:

Graduates effectively access, manage and use scientific, health care and/or patient/client information while respecting the ownership and privacy of sources.

Objectives: SHP graduates will be able to:

1. Identify and access sources of evidence/information to inform the decision making process for scholarship or patient care
2. Analyze evidence/information for quality, economic, legal, and social implications
3. Demonstrate proficiency in information privacy regulations, e.g. HIPPA and PHI
4. Adapt to changing technology in their field

Program Outcomes:

1. Demonstrate mastery of evidence-based medicine and its application to clinical medicine.
2. Enhance clinical reasoning skills to appraise medical literature and apply findings to clinical decision making

Schoolwide Outcome:

SHP graduates create a safe practice environment for themselves and their patients.

Objectives: Within their scope of practice, SHP graduates will be able to:

1. Recognize medical, behavioral, and public health emergencies
2. Demonstrate skills to create safe environments and respond to health emergencies.

Program Outcomes:

1. Medical Knowledge: Demonstrate knowledge of established and evolving biomedical, clinical, epidemiological, and social–behavioral sciences, as well as the application of this knowledge to patient care.
2. Patient Care: Provide patient care that is compassionate, appropriate, and effective for the treatment of health problems and the promotion of health; make informed decisions about diagnostic and therapeutic interventions based on patient information and preferences, up-to-date scientific evidence, and clinical judgment.
3. Demonstrate skill in frequently performed procedures in the emergency room including, but not limited to, fluorescein examination of the eyes, incision and drainage of an abscess, suturing lacerations, and applying dressings and bandages.
4. Recognize medical, behavioral, and public health emergencies