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Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada CanMEDS framework key competencies for the role of health advocate
KEY COMPETENCIES ENABLING COMPETENCIES Physicians are able to ... 1. Respond to an individual patient’s health needs by advocating with the patient within and beyond the clinical environment
1.1 Work with patients to address determinants of health that affect them and their access to needed health services or resources
1.2 Work with patients and their families to increase opportunities to adopt healthy behaviour
1.3 Incorporate disease prevention, health promotion, and health surveillance into interactions with individual patients
2. Respond to the needs of the communities or populations they serve by advocating with them for system-level change in a socially accountable manner
2.1 Work with a community or population to identify the determinants of health that affect them
2.2 Improve clinical practice by applying a process of continuous quality improvement to disease prevention, health promotion, and health surveillance activities
2.3 Contribute to a process to improve health in the community or population they serve
Reproduced from Sherbino et al. Copyright Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada.