Virtue Based Master List of Professionalism Objectives

Virtue	Skill, Behavior or Attitude	PGY-4 Expectation	PGY-5 Expectation	PGY-6 Expectation
Competence
	Administrative competence (punctual, completes task as asked, follows direction, timely response to staff needs including pages and abnormal lab results, follow up on patient care issues without prompting).	Essential	Essential	Essential
	Self directed learning.	Expected,i.e. reads about patients	Expected, i.e spontaneously presents literature and evidence related to patient care	Expected, i.e spontaneously presents literature and evidence related to patient care
	Able to deliver bad news.	Expected	Expected	Essential
	Understands and is competent to work w/patients regarding advanced directives, DNR status, Futility, withholding* or withdrawing* therapy.	Expected	Expected	Essential
	Able to assess and use informed consent and provision of care*.	Expected	Essential	Essential
Honesty
	Understands and recognizes mistakes and notifies attending, patients and/or medical staff (if appropriate).	Essential	Essential	Essential
	Tells the truth and is absolutely trustworthy.	Essential	Essential	Essential
	Makes honest use of coding, billing and referral principles in order to maintain coding and billing compliance..	Essential	Essential	Essential
	Understands and appropriately maintains patient confidentiality*.	Essential	Essential	Essential
Compassion
	Fellow's attitude manifests an interest in helping to provide compassionate*, and quality care to all patients.	Essential	Essential	Essential
Respect for Others
	Demonstrates respect and compassion for all patients*.	Essential	Essential	Essential
	Understands and compassionately responds to issues of culture, age, sex, sexual orientation, and diasbility in patient care.	Essential	Essential	Essential
Professional Responsibility
	Recognizes that physicians have a responsibility for the safety and well being of patients, colleagues, and staff.	Essential	Essential	Essential
	Understands that there are moral and ethical concerns about receiving gifts from patients.	Essential	Essential	Essential
	Understands the moral and ethical concerns in receiving gifts from pharmaceutical representatives.	Essential	Essential	Essential
	Able to discuss and defend ones own ethical understanding of his/her relationship with pharmaceutical representatives.	Expected	Essential	Essential
	Willing to provide coverage for sick/unavailable colleagues.	Expected	Expected	Expected
	Demonstrates intellectual curiosity.	Expected	Expected	Expected
	Spontaneously teaches and exhibits concern for the educational development of residents and fellow sub-specialty residents, as well as medical students.	Expected	Expected	Expected
	Provides leadership on teams associated with the internal medicine residency and medical student programs.	Expected	Expected	Expected
	Understands that in the patient-physician relationship, the physician's primary concern is the patient's care and interests, not his/her own. That the relationship is fiduciary.	Expected	Essential	Essential
Social Responsibility
	Volunteers for activities that are for the "good of the institution" (e.g. recruiting interviews, committee membership, accrediting program site reviews and etc.	Expected	Essential	Essential
	Participation in community organizations.	Not an objective	Appreciated	Appreciated
	Responsive to the needs of society that supercede self-interest*.	Expected	Expected	Expected

*Denotes specific ACGME requirement.