U of M MedStudents

Intended learning outcomes (ILOs) are written by faculty to specify what they expect students to learn, and to inform students specifically about the knowledge, skills, and attitudes they will be expected to acquire through a particular course or set of courses.

Because the faculty feel that there are a variety of routes toward achievement of some ILOs, or that they need to be progressively reinforced as students advance through medical school, you may see the same or very similar ILOs more than once. For example, Patients and Populations will have some of the same learning outcomes as CFM, as will the Family Centered Experience. By the end of the first year of medical school, it is expected that students will:
1. Be able to elicit general information/basic history from patients (skill)

2. Be able to perform a basic physical exam on a patient (skill)

3. Have a basic understanding of relationships and influences between cultural diversity and health and health care (knowledge)

4. Have a basic understanding of health care disparities (knowledge)

5. Have acquired deeper knowledge in selected medical topic areas (knowledge)

6. Appreciate the diversity of health beliefs (including spirituality), and their impact on health and health care (knowledge, attitude)

7. Possess necessary communication skills for appropriate interactions with patients (skill, attitude)

8. Understand and begin to practice tenets of professionalism (knowledge, skill, attitude)

9. Appreciate the philosophical issues underlying medical ethics (knowledge, attitude)

10. Recognize potential conflicts between societal expectations and the realities of medical practice (knowledge)

11. Appreciate the relationship between medicine and society as seen through non-medical sources (knowledge)

12. Understand the basics of health economics, including models of health insurance (knowledge)

13. Understand strategies for searching the medical literature, including formulating key clinical questions (knowledge, skill)

14. Begin to understand end-of-life issues (knowledge)