1. demonstrate sound critical thinking and clinical decision making;
2. develop a comprehensive database, including complete functional assessment,
health history, physical examination, and appropriate diagnostic testing;
3. perform a risk assessment of the patient including the assessment of lifestyle and
other risk factors;
4. identify signs and symptoms of common emotional illnesses;
5. perform basic laboratory tests and interpret other laboratory and diagnostic data;
6. relate assessment findings to underlying pathology or physiologic changes;
7. establish a differential diagnosis based on the assessment data; and
8. develop an effective and appropriate plan of care for the patient that takes into
consideration life circumstance and cultural, ethnic, and developmental
variations.
