Table 4. Core Competencies for Health Professions
1. Provide patient-centered care - identify, respect, and care about patients' differences, values, preferences, and expressed needs; relieve pain and suffering; coordinate continuous care; listen to, clearly inform, communicate with, and educate patients; share decision making and management; and continuously advocate disease prevention, wellness, and promotion of healthy lifestyles, including a focus on population health.
2. Work in interdisciplinary teams - cooperate, collaborate, communicate, and integrate care in teams to ensure that care is continuous and reliable.
3. Employ evidence-based practice - integrate best research with clinical expertise and patient values for optimum care, and participate in learning and research activities to the extent feasible.
4. Apply quality improvement - identify errors and hazards in care; understand and implement basic safety design principles, such as standardization and simplification; continually understand and measure quality of care เท terms of structure, process, and outcomes in relation to patient and community needs; and design and test interventions to change processes and systems of care, with the objective of improving quality.
5. Utilize informatics - communicate, manage knowledge, mitigate error, and support decision making using information technology.