Expert | Residents will be knowledgeable about women’s health
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Demonstrate an understanding of how women’s health, including emotional, cultural, spiritual, and physical well-being, is determined by social, political, cultural, and economic factors, as well as biologic factors -
Demonstrate effective breast examination technique and stratify women’s risk of breast cancer, as well as screen appropriately -
Perform a speculum and pelvic examination; perform Papanicolaou tests and prepare collection swabs, being sensitive to the individual patient (eg, adolescent, victim of abuse, menopausal woman with atrophy, postpartum patient, patient’s first pelvic examination) Residents will demonstrate the ability to provide prenatal care
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Provide care for prepregnancy planning -
Establish the desirability of the pregnancy in a patient with suspected or confirmed pregnancy -
Provide initial and subsequent prenatal visits with history, physical, and laboratory investigations, and counseling Residents will be able to provide care for normal labour and delivery
Residents will be able to manage common intrapartum problems
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Diagnose and treat dystocia by nonpharmacologic and pharmacologic means, including oxytocin -
Manage shoulder dystocia -
Manage fever, infection, nonreassuring fetal status, and manual removal of placenta -
Perform outlet vacuum or forceps deliveries (usually having done 4 instrumental deliveries, more or less depending on the individual’s need, to develop the competence) -
Recognize preterm labour Residents will provide continuity of care (follow women through pregnancy, birth, and the postpartum and newborn periods) Residents will be able to provide basic postpartum care
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Manager | Residents will demonstrate an understanding of the roles of all health care providers in the team, as well as hospital maternity care planning and policy making |
Communicator | Residents will be able to communicate effectively with patients, family members, and members of the health care team
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Demonstrate listening skills -
Demonstrate skills in adapting communication appropriately to a patient’s or colleague’s culture and age -
Demonstrate attitudinal skills (ability to respectfully hear, understand, and discuss an opinion, idea, or value that might be different from their own) -
Apply these communication skills to facilitate shared and informed decision making
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Collaborator | Residents will be able to collaborate
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Health advocate | Residents will be able to advocate for patients’ health
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Professional | Residents will demonstrate professionalism
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Demonstrate day-to-day behaviour that reassures that the resident is responsible, reliable, and trustworthy (observable behaviour is 1 of the themes discussed in the CFPC document on evaluation objectives7)
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Scholar | Residents will demonstrate their scholarly proficiencies
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Demonstrate self-directed learning based on reflective practice -
Access, critically evaluate, and use medical information in maternal and child health care decisions
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