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Technical
Standards
The abilities and
skills candidates and students must possess in order to complete
the education and training of the Biomedical Sciences Medical Master’s
program are referred to as “Technical Standards.” These abilities and
skills are essential for entry into most professional practice settings
associated with this degree program.
1.0 Observation
Skills Technical Standard
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1.01 |
Demonstrate sufficient attention and accuracy in
observation skills (visual, auditory, and tactile) in the lecture
hall, laboratory, and/or online settings. |
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1.02 |
Indicators
include, but are not limited to, this example: |
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a. |
Accurate visualization and discrimination of text,
numbers, patterns, graphic illustrations, and other imaging texts.
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2.0 Communication
Skills Technical Standard
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2.01 |
Demonstrate effective communication skills with health
care professionals, and with people of varying cultures, ethnicities
and personalities. |
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2.02 |
Indicators
include, but are not limited to, these examples: |
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a. |
Clear, efficient, and intelligible articulation of spoken English
language. |
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b. |
Legible,
efficient, and intelligible written English language. |
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c. |
Accurate and
efficient English language reading skills. |
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d. |
Accurate and
efficient expressive and receptive communication skills. |
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e. |
Ability to
accurately follow oral and written directions. |
3.0 Critical
Reasoning Skills Technical Standard
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3.01 |
Demonstrate
critical reasoning skills, including, but not limited to,
intellectual, conceptual, integrative, and quantitative abilities. |
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3.02 |
Indicators
include, but are not limited to, these examples: |
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a. |
Demonstrate
ability to measure, calculate, reason, analyze, integrate, and
synthesize information. |
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b. |
Demonstrate
ability to acquire, retain, and apply new and learned information. |
4.0
Motor And Sensory Function Technical Standard
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4.01 |
Perform
demonstrations and experiments in the basic sciences. |
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4.02 |
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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4.03 |
Speak, hear, and
observe patients in order to elicit information, describe changes in
mood, activity, and posture, and perceive nonverbal communications. |
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4.04 |
Communicate
effectively and efficiently in oral and written form. |
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4.05 |
Execute movements
reasonably required to provide patients with general care and
emergency treatment. |
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4.06 |
Students should
also have sufficient motor function to elicit information from
patients by palpation, auscultation, percussion and other diagnostic
techniques. |
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4.07 |
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
student 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. |
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4.08 |
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. |
5.0 Behavioral And
Social Attributes Technical Standard
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5.01 |
Demonstrate the behavioral and social attributes vital to
participation in a professional program and service as a practicing
laboratory professional. |
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5.02 |
Indicators
include, but are not limited to, these examples: |
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a. |
Possess the
emotional health required for full utilization of mental faculties
(judgment, orientation, affect, and cognition). |
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b. |
Ability to
develop mature and effective professional relationships with
faculty, patients, the public, and other members of the health care
team. |
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c. |
Possess personal
qualities that facilitate effective therapeutic interactions
(compassion, empathy, integrity, honesty, benevolence,
confidentiality). |
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d. |
Demonstrate
impartial motives, attitudes, and values in roles, functions, and
relationships. |
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e. |
Ability to
monitor and react appropriately to one’s own emotional needs and
responses. |
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f. |
Display
appropriate flexibility and adaptability in the face of stress or
uncertainty associated with laboratory experiments. |
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g. |
Compliance with
standards, policies, and practices set forth in the
EVMS Student
Handbook and the program handbook. |
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