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All candidates for admission must fulfill
the minimum requirements for admission and all candidates for the M.D. degree must
complete all required courses and clerkships as indicated in the School of Medicine Bulletin.
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All candidates for admission and
all candidates for the M.D. degree should possess sufficient physical, intellectual,
interpersonal, social, emotional, and communication abilities to: (see "b"
category on the right)
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Establish appropriate relationships with a wide range of faculty
members, professional
colleagues, and patients. Candidates should possess the personal qualities of integrity,
empathy, concern for the welfare of others, interest, and motivation. They should possess
the emotional health required for the full use of their intellectual abilities; the
exercise of good judgment; the prompt completion of all responsibilities associated with
the diagnosis and care of patients; and the development of mature, sensitive, and
effective relationships with patients, patients’ families, and professional
colleagues. Candidates should be able to tolerate physically taxing workloads and to
function effectively under stress. They must be able to adapt to changing environments, to
be flexible, and to function in the face of ambiguities inherent in the clinical
situation. Candidates should be able to speak, to hear, to read, to write, and to observe
patients in order to elicit information, to describe changes in mood, activity, posture,
and behavior, and to perceive nonverbal communications. Candidates should be able to
communicate effectively and efficiently in the English language in oral and written form
with all members of the health care team. Candidates must be mobile and able to move
within the clinical environment.
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Obtain a medical history and perform physical and mental examinations
with a wide variety of patients. Candidates must be able to observe patients accurately
both close at hand
and at a distance. Observation requires the functional use of the sense of vision and
other
sensory modalities and is enhanced by the functional use of the sense of smell. Candidates
should have sufficient exteroceptive sense (touch, pain, and temperature), proprioceptive
sense (position, pressure, movement, stereognosis, and vibratory), and motor function to
carry out the requirements of the physical examination. Candidates should have sufficient
motor function to elicit information from patients by palpation, auscultation, percussion,
and other diagnostic operations. They should be able to use effectively and in a
coordinated manner those standard instruments necessary for a physical examination (e.g.,
stethoscope, otoscope, sphygmomanometer, ophthalmoscope, and reflex hammer). Candidates
should be able to execute motor movements required to provide general and emergency
treatment to patients, including cardiopulmonary resuscitation, the administration of
intravenous medication, the application of pressure to stop bleeding, the opening of
obstructed airways, the suturing of simple wounds, and the performance of simple
obstetrical maneuvers. Such actions require coordination of both fine and gross muscular
movements, equilibrium, and functional use of the senses of touch and vision.
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Conduct tests and perform laboratory work. Candidates must be able to
observe demonstrations, collect data, and participate in experiments and dissections in
the basic sciences, including, but not limited to, demonstrations in animals,
microbiologic cultures, and microscopic studies of microorganisms and tissues in normal
and pathologic states. They should be able to understand basic laboratory studies and
interpret their results, draw arterial and venous blood, and carry out diagnostic
procedures (e.g., proctoscopy, paracentesis).
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Ultimately, make logical diagnostic and therapeutic judgments.
Candidates should be able to make measurements, calculate, and reason; to analyze,
integrate, and synthesize data; and to solve problems. Candidates should be able to
comprehend three-dimensional relationships and to understand the spatial relationships of
structures. Candidates should be able to integrate rapidly, consistently, and accurately
all data received by whatever sense(s) employed. Continue to next page |
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