Table 3.
Examples of Profession-Specific Sub-competencies by Meta-competency
| Meta-competency/Sub-competency | Profession |
|---|---|
| 1. Practice patient-centered and relationship-based care. | |
| • Recognize the value of relationship-centered care as a tool to facilitate healing. | Family Medicine |
| • Demonstrate respect and understanding for patients' interpretations of health, disease, and illness that are based upon their cultural beliefs and practices. | |
| • Demonstrate the ability to reflect on elements of patient encounters, including personal bias and belief, to facilitate understanding of relationship-centered care. | |
| • Provide care that is person-centered and relationship-based. | Nursing |
| • Employ effective educational strategies that encourage patient engagement in symptom self-management and strategies that improve whole-person wellbeing. | |
| 7. Work effectively as a member of an interprofessional team. | |
| • Demonstrate respect for peers, staff, consultants, and CAM practitioners who share in the care of patients. Knowledge and acceptance need to begin within medical culture. Consider the importance of school coaches/instructors if appropriate for the child's wellbeing: most commonly needed for mental health/behavioral issues. | Pediatrics |
| • Engage diverse health professionals who complement pharmacists' expertise to develop strategies to meet specific patient, care partner, and community health needs. | Pharmacy |
| • Demonstrate respect for diverse conventional, complementary, and integrative professionals who share in the care of patients. | |
| • Identify differences among diverse health systems and models used by conventional, complementary, and integrative professionals. | |
| • Participate in professional and interprofessional development that improves team performance and quality of care while ensuring that care is delivered safely, effectively, and efficiently. | |
| 9. Incorporate integrative healthcare into community settings and into the healthcare system at large. | |
| • Evaluate outcomes of integrative healthcare in community settings. | Public Health |
| • Establish performance management systems for delivering integrative healthcare services. | |
| • Include the use of cost-effectiveness, cost-benefit, and cost-utility analysis in programmatic prioritization and decision making. | |
| • Demonstrate a working understanding of available healthcare resources, both conventional and complementary, in order to address patient and community needs. | Naturopathy |
| • Influence community or population health through education, community initiative, and other efforts to shape public and professional healthcare policy. | |
| • Practice cost-effective healthcare through evidence-informed management, preventive strategies and lifestyle management with an aim of alleviating the overall healthcare burden. | |