Resources Relevant to the Implementation
of Core ACGME-Required Competencies


Module V
    Patient care
          Resources




Additional Resources
      
A number of resources are available concerning patient care. For those wanting more information on the subject, some selected additional resources are presented.

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ACGME The ACGME provides an extensive annotated bibliography of references on assessment of patient care.

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American College
of Physicians -
American Society
of Internal Medicine
ACP-ASIM
The ACP-ASIM offers extensive patient care resources that physicians may find useful in addressing this competency.

The ACP-ASIM offers a Resource Guide to Curriculum Development. In it, they identify a number of competencies that may be useful, including:

     • clinical pharmacology

     • scientific literacy
     • preventive medicine
     • occupational & environmental medicine
     • clinical methodology
     • continuity of care
     • physical diagnosis
     • clinical epidemiology and quantitative clinical reasoning
     • in-depth knowledge of clinical conditions: allergy & immunology

While this resource was developed for internal medicine residency programs, much of the information is generalizable across specialties.

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ACP Journal Club The ACP Journal Club identifies evidence-based articles about patient care. As with most strategies used to search the literature, citations retrieved as a result of a search of key words will produce articles that may or may not be relevant to the question at hand.

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Clerkship Directors
in Internal Medicine (CDIM)
The Clerkship Directors in Internal Medicine offer a curriculum guide that focuses on general clinical core competencies. Several of these competencies, diagnostic decision making, history taking & physical examination, test interpretation, therapeutic decision making, prevention, coordination of care, and occupational health care include specific objectives that are related to the ACGME competency of patient care.

While these objectives were written primarily for use in undergraduate medical education, they may be useful in residency and fellowship training.

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