Dr. Kiran C. Patel College of Allopathic Medicine—M.B.S. Program 613 M.B.S. Core Performance Standards for Admission and Progress Candidates for the M.B.S. degree must have multiple abilities and skills including intellectual, conceptual, integrative, and quantitative abilities; interpersonal communication; mobility and strength; motor skills; and hearing, visual, tactile, behavioral, and social attributes. Candidates for admission and progression must be able to perform these abilities and skills in a reasonably independent manner. Intellectual, Conceptual, Integrative, and Qualitative Abilities These abilities include measurement, calculation, reasoning, analysis, and synthesis. Candidates and students should be able to comprehend three-dimensional relationships and to understand the spatial relationships of structures. Individuals are expected to be able to perform multiple tasks in a diverse, dynamic, highly competitive, and challenging learning environment. Examples include, but are not limited to, identifying cause/effect relationships in clinical situations, developing treatment plans, transferring knowledge from one situation to another, evaluating outcomes, problem-solving, prioritizing, and using short- and long-term memory. Interpersonal Communication Candidates and students must be able to interact and communicate effectively, with respect to policies, protocols, and process—with faculty and staff members, students, and administration—during the student’s educational program. Communication includes not only speech, but also reading and writing. Candidates and students must also be able to communicate effectively and efficiently in all written forms. They must have interpersonal abilities sufficient to interact with individuals; families; and groups from a variety of social, emotional, cultural, and intellectual backgrounds. Students must have sufficient proficiency with English to retrieve information from texts and lectures and communicate concepts on written and practical exams. Motor Skills Candidates and students must have sufficient motor function to execute movements reasonably required to use various pieces of equipment. Such actions require coordination of both gross and fine muscular movements, equilibrium, and functional use of the senses of touch and vision. Examples include, but are not limited to, calibration and use of equipment, grasping and manipulating small objects/instruments, and using a computer keyboard. Strength and Mobility Candidates and students must have the physical ability to move sufficiently from room to room and to maneuver in small places. Hearing Candidates and students must have sufficient auditory ability to monitor and assess health needs. Visual Candidates and students must have visual ability sufficient for observation, evaluation, and treatment integration. Students must be able to see fine detail; focus at a variety of distances; and discern differences and variations in color, shape, and texture that are necessary to differentiate normal and abnormal soft and hard tissues. Students must also possess the visual acuity to read charts, records, radiographs, small print, and handwritten notations. Tactile Candidates and students must have sufficient tactile ability for physical assessment—directly by palpation and indirectly by sensations transmitted through instruments. Sensory Candidates and students must be able to acquire a predetermined level of required information through demonstrations and experiences in basic science courses. Such information includes, but is not limited to, information conveyed through a) physiologic and pharmacologic demonstrations, b) microscopic images of microorganisms and tissues in normal and pathologic states, and c) demonstration of techniques using anatomical models. Students must also be able to acquire information from written documents and to evaluate information presented as images from digital platforms, paper, films, slides, or video. Behavioral and Social Attributes Candidates and students must possess the emotional health required for full use of their intellectual abilities; the exercise of good judgment; and the ability to take responsibility for their own actions with respect to policies, protocols, and process with faculty and staff members, students, and administration during the students’ educational program. Candidates and students must be able to physically tolerate taxing workloads, adapt to changing environments, display flexibility, and learn to function in the face of uncertainties. Compassion, diversity, integrity, concern for others, interpersonal skills, interest, and motivation are all personal qualities that will be assessed during the admissions and education process.
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