Program Learning Outcomes (PLOs)

Upon completion of the program, the FIU MPAS student will be able to:

PLO1: Apply core knowledge about established and evolving biomedical and clinical sciences and the application of this knowledge to patient care.

PLO2: Accurately obtain and document complete and focused medical history.

PLO3: Appropriately perform a comprehensive and focused physical exam.

PLO4: Appropriately select, perform, and interpret laboratory and diagnostic procedures common to general practice.

PLO5: Accurately determine a differential and final diagnosis through investigative and analytic thinking.

PLO6: Formulate appropriate pharmacologic and non- pharmacologic treatment plans for common conditions in general practice.

PLO7: Determine appropriate counseling, as well as patient and family education, related to preventable diseases, communicable diseases, immunization schedules, and healthy lifestyles.

PLO8: Demonstrate a commitment to ethical behaviors.

PLO9: Critically appraise the medical literature in order to use current practice guidelines and apply the principles of evidence-based medicine when caring for the patient.

PLO10: Demonstrate respect, compassion, empathy and sensitivity to the patient’s gender, age, culture, disabilities, ethnicity, and sexual identity via professional communication and deportment.

PLO11: Demonstrate an awareness of and responsiveness to the larger system of health care to provide patient care that balances quality and cost.

PLO12: Use the full scope of knowledge, skills, and abilities of an interprofessional team to provide care that is safe, timely, efficient, effective, and equitable.

PLO13: Perform skills, procedures, and documentation with entry level competence that ensures patient safety preventing of adverse incidents and medical errors.

PLO14: Conduct self-assessments, identifying and correcting gaps in knowledge, tasks, or attitudes.