GOALS AND OBJECTIVES FOR
RESPIROLOGY
Principle Objectives
To further develop the knowledge base, clinical skills, ability to analyze patients’
problems and formulate management/treatment plans through an exposure to a wide
variety of patients with respiratory diseases.
CanMEDS 2000 ROLE/SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES
Medical Expert/Clinical Decision Maker
1.
To accurately assess patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease,
asthma, pneumonia (community and hospital acquired), lung cancer, acute and
chronic respiratory failure, sleep disorders, pulmonary embolism, and interstitial
lung disease.
2.
To interpret plain films of the chest.
3.
To gain technical experience in the performance of procedures such as
diagnostic and therapeutic thoracentesis, pleural biopsy, arterial puncture and
assist with bronchoscopy.
Communicator
1.
To enhance clinical skills by obtaining case histories of assigned inpatients and
outpatients on the respirology service with a wide variety of respiratory diseases.
2.
To enhance respiratory physical examination skills by obtaining exposure to
inpatients and outpatients with abnormal pulmonary signs.
3.
To further develop skills in medical record keeping by writing the case histories
of patients and formulating appropriate management plans.
4.
To develop skills in dictating patient records by dictating letters to referring
physicians on patients seen in consultation in the outpatient department.
5.
To develop skills in verbal presentation by presenting cases at ward rounds, in
the clinic and on occasion at formal teaching conferences.
Educational Goals and Objectives
RESPIROLOGY
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Collaborator
1.
2.
Recognize and integrate into case management the roles of other health care
providers including thoracic surgeons, physiotherapists, respiratory therapists,
dieticians, nurses and social workers.
Foster respect for and appreciation of the importance of communication with
allied health care workers and referring physicians in the care of patients.
Manager
1.
Utilize health care resources effectively and efficiently, demonstrating an
awareness of a cost effective way of managing patients.
Health Advocate
1.
2.
Recognize the role played by physicians in the care of patients with pulmonary
disease.
Appreciate patient autonomy and the religious, ethnic, and psychosocial factors
which influence the doctor-patient relationship and to take such factors into
account when pursuing problems and understanding patient decisions.
Scholar
1.
2.
3.
Use patient encounters as a stimulus to further reading and review of the current
literature.
Develop and apply skills in critical appraisal and the practice of evidence based
medicine.
Understand the importance of patient education in the management of many
common pulmonary conditions and facilitate such learning whenever possible.
Professional
1. Demonstrate effective ethical medical care with integrity, honesty and compassion.
2. Display appropriate professional behaviors and interpersonal skills.
3. Demonstrate an awareness of and appropriate response to ethical issues in the
management of respiratory illnesses such as palliative care, home ventilation,
cardiopulmonary resuscitation, and withholding and withdrawing life support for
respiratory failure.
June 2003