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. 2019 Dec 13;21(2):3–8. doi: 10.1002/jgf2.289

Table 2.

Learning objectives

  • 1

    Professionalism

  • Have high ethical standards

  • Have a patient‐centered perspective

  • Understand true patients' true reason

  • Build a relationship of trust between inhabitants and students

  • 2

    Medical knowledge and ability to solve problems

  • Have a wide range of knowledge and experience that enable students to understand the patients' thoughts and values.

  • Treat common diseases

  • Deal with rare diseases

  • Deal with emergency diseases

  • Continue chronic illness treatment

  • Make correct diagnosis

  • Assess basic human functions (eg, diet, exercise, excretion)

  • Ability to adequately deal with other problems

  • Have a viewpoint of prevention

  • Extract and formulate issues using EBM framework

  • 3

    Medical skills and patient care

  • See not only diseases but also the patient as a whole

  • See patients including their families

  • Know the patient (family composition, presence or absence of social network/relatives, and economic conditions)

  • Have both biomedical and social perspectives

  • Understand the community‐based integrated care systems and anticipate and respond to the patients' future in the sequence of hospitalization, discharge, and ambulation

  • See multimorbidity

  • 4

    Communication skills

  • Communicate with patients and their families

  • Explain the patients' condition briefly and easily

  • 5

    Team‐based care

  • Understand the role of any kind of medical profession

  • Understand the role of local government

  • Understand the welfare system

  • Collaborate with other medical professions

  • 6

    Quality and safety management in medicinal care

  • Practice resilience

  • 7

    Medical care in society

  • Understand the community characteristics, needs, issues, and resources and set goals accordingly

  • Understand that physicians are members of the community and should utilize themselves in the community

  • Objectively assess their own medical care level, collaborate with nearby hospitals/clinics, and appropriately refer to specialists

  • Demonstrate leadership in the community

  • Understand the importance of social capital and see inhabitants in the community

  • Understand that there is no interruption between community and other medical facilities (eg, University hospital)

  • Share the goals (eg, health promotion, prevention, welfare) with all kinds of medical professions, inhabitants, and the local government

  • 8

    Scientific inquiry

  • Conduct a community diagnosis

  • Understand statistical methods and evaluate data objectively

  • To nurture a research mind and conduct a research, such as action research

  • 9

    Lifelong learning attitude

  • Enhance lifelong learning skill

  • Reflection including the multidisciplinary view

  • Do not focus on outcomes. Understand the importance of the process of experiencing and learning

  • 10

    Future‐oriented systematic view

  • Understand the existence and role of community medicine

  • Have a comprehensive perspective

  • Explain the value of community medicine with evidence

  • Learn new technologies and concepts such as AI and economy sharing and work with technologies with limited medical resources

  • Understand that there is medical care that can be achieved only by humans

  • Have a work‐life balance perspective

  • Understand the further importance of community medicine in the aged society

  • 11

    Organic integration of knowledge/skills

  • Learn about unfragmented medical care and how learning so far is used in the real practice

  • Understand the bedside perspective

  • Find a role model

  • 12

    Understanding of the community

  • Interested in the community

  • Aware of cultures, customs, lifestyles, and values in the community and utilize them in the community medicine

  • 13

    Awareness as an individual physician

  • Adequate greeting

  • Time compliance

  • Well‐dressed

  • Collaborate with senior physicians

  • Establish a good human relationship with inhabitants