Skills

Clinical Skills

• Comprehensive and focused health history taking across the lifespan

• Complete physical examinations (head‑to‑toe, system‑focused, and age‑specific)

• Clinical reasoning and differential diagnosis development

• Interpretation of diagnostic tests (laboratory results, imaging, ECG basics)

• Acute illness evaluation and management

• Chronic disease management (e.g., hypertension, diabetes, COPD)

• Preventive health screening and health promotion counseling

• Medication reconciliation, prescribing, and management

• Evidence‑based clinical decision‑making

• Patient education and shared decision‑making

• Documentation using electronic health records (EHR)

• Interprofessional communication and collaboration

• Cultural humility and patient‑centered care delivery

• Pediatric well‑child assessments and immunization visits

• Adult and geriatric wellness exams, including Medicare Annual Wellness Visits

• Women’s health assessments, including gynecologic exams and Pap smears

• Sports physicals and pre‑operative evaluations

• Recognition and management of urgent/emergent conditions in primary care

Procedural Skills

• Pap smear collection

• Cryotherapy for wart removal

• Toenail removal with digital block

• Punch biopsy of skin lesions

• Vaginal and diagnostic culture collection