Medical Competency Evaluation

Evaluating Medical Decision-Making …

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Medical decision-making capacity is the ability of a patient to understand the benefits and risks of, and the alternatives to, a proposed treatment or intervention (including no treatment)....

Competency and Capacity - StatPearls

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Evaluation of decision-making capacity should be involved in every patient interaction. The depth of this evaluation …

Defining Patient Competence for Medical Decision Making

https://journal.chestnet.org/article/S0012-3692(16)33698-4/fulltext

Medical Knowledge - Applying ACGME Core …

https://knowledgeplus.nejm.org/blog/acgme-core-competencies-medical-knowledge/

The outline for this standard of care was established in 1999 when the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME), the governing body for …

Assessment of decision-making capacity in adults

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In a medical context, capacity refers to the ability to utilize information about an illness and proposed treatment options to make a choice that is congruent with one's …

Residency Performance & Competency …

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The American Board of Medical Specialties (ABMS) and the Accreditation Council on Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) have established six core areas in which competency is expected by all …

How Do I Determine if My Patient has …

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KEY POINTS. Competency is a global assessment and legal determination made by a judge in court. Capacity is a functional assessment and a clinical determination about a specific …

Capacity, Competency, and Guardianship | Johns …

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Competency (sometimes called legal capacity) A judicial determination of legal status; Made by a JUDGE, not a physician; Denotes a person’s legal ability or …

Assessing Competency To Stand Trial

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Common Competency Assessment Tools There are multiple competency assessment instruments that supplement clinical evaluations ( Table 2 ). While these formalized checklists and …

Sample Competency Assessment Tool - AAPA

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Professional competencies for PAs include: the effective and appropriate application of medical knowledge, interpersonal and communication skills, patient care, …