In order to ensure that patients receive
the best medical care possible, certain technical standards are required
of EVMS students. Candidates for the medical degree must be able to:
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perform demonstrations and experiments in
the basic sciences
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observe a patient accurately, both at a
distance and close at hand; this ability requires the functional use
of vision and somatic sensation
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speak, to hear, and to observe patients in
order to elicit information, describe changes in mood, activity, and
posture, and perceive nonverbal communications
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communicate effectively and efficiently in
oral and written form
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execute movements reasonably required to
provide patients with general care and emergency treatment
Candidates should also have sufficient
motor function to elicit information from patients by palpation,
auscultation, percussion and other diagnostic techniques.
The ability to solve problems, a skill
which is critical to the practice of medicine, requires the intellectual
abilities of measurement, calculation, reasoning, analysis and
synthesis. In addition, a candidate for medical school must possess the
emotional health required for full utilization of his or her
intellectual abilities, the exercise of good judgment, the prompt
completion of all responsibilities required for the diagnosis and care
of patients, and the development of mature, sensitive, and effective
relationships with patients. All
students of medicine must possess the intellectual, ethical, physical,
and emotional capabilities required to undertake the full curriculum and
to achieve the levels of competence required by the faculty. |
