MPAS 5310

This course is the first of a three-unit sequence of courses that spans year one of the MPAS curriculum. The Professional Competencies (ProComp I-III) courses provide students with the opportunity to integrate their biomedical and clinical learning within the context of patient care from professional, community, and life-long student perspectives. The course emphasizes competencies that are integral to the effective functioning of a well-rounded health care professional under the domains of communication skills, professionalism, ethics, and social/community context of healthcare. Concurrent Medical Foundations I (Tutorial) content during ProComp I includes medical foundations, host defense, and metabolism and hemostasis units. For example, as students learn about the biological and physiological aspects of health and disease in the Medical Foundations course, students concurrently cover social determinants of health, patient confidentiality, medical law and the role of public health in ProComp I.