Students apply evidence- based principles of etiological, biomedical, clinical, epidemiological, pharmacological and social- behavioral sciences to guide diagnosis, treatment and patient care decisions.
Medical Knowledge 1: Physiology
Apply knowledge of normal human structure, function and development from the molecular through whole body levels, to distinguish health from disease and explain how physiologic mechanisms are integrated and regulated in the body.
Medical Knowledge 2: Etiology
Explain the causes (behavioral, degenerative, developmental, genetic, immunologic, inflammatory, metabolic, microbiologic, neoplastic, toxic, environmental and traumatic) of diseases, injuries and functional deficits affecting organ systems.
Medical Knowledge 3: Pathophysiology
Describe the altered structure and function resulting from diseases, injuries and functional deficits affecting organ systems, with an ability to interpret the clinical, histopathologic, laboratory and radiographic manifestations commonly seen in practice.
Medical Knowledge 4: Interventions
Pharmacology and medication management. Provide justifications for interventions to diagnose, prevent, treat and manage individual patients' diseases, injuries and functional deficits of organ systems.