The goal of the SJV PRIME+ BS/MD Program is to equip students with the expertise, skills, and ethical foundations necessary to excel as medical students and physicians dedicated to serving the San Joaquin Valley. To achieve this goal, students must meet the following baccalaureate competencies:
Practice-Based Learning and Improvement
Life/learning Skills
- Demonstrate the ability to recognize, through experience and introspection, their own personal and academic strengths, needs and styles of learning, leveraging those strengths and styles to be active seekers of information and successful learners.
Resilience, Belonging and Agency
- Through a balance of programmatic and personal milestones, self-reflection, and group support, students will achieve a sense of belonging that will increase their self-efficacy to overcome challenges.
Interpersonal & Communication
Member of a Community of Learners
- Demonstrate a collaborative spirit, develop skills to effectively work and learn in groups, and embody these principles through activities that intentionally construct knowledge collectively.
Communication
- Demonstrate a battery of skills needed to better understand other people and develop a variety of communication strategies to effectively and efficiently gather and relay health care information to broad audiences.
Professionalism
Ethics
- Honor and apply ethical principles governing actions and behaviors in health care practice, research, health care policy, and law.
Systems-Based Practice
Social Justice
- Apply the knowledge that inequities are the result of historical discrimination that has led to persistent structural barriers for certain communities and populations, and effectively develop and promote strategies to remove barriers preventing equal access to health care and societal/governmental supports
Knowledge of SJV Needs
- Apply the knowledge that the unique health care needs of the Central Valley including barriers to access, inequity in access, health policies, culturally sensitive health care delivery, and health issues affecting the region.
Knowledge of Health Systems Science
- Demonstrate a basic understanding of how care is delivered, how health professionals work together to deliver that care, and how health systems can improve patient care and health care delivery.
Medical Knowledge
Basic Scientific knowledge and Research Experience
- Apply their knowledge of science and research skills to recognize, investigate and start solving real world problems.
Knowledge/experience with Modern Technology
- Apply knowledge of the role of modern technology in health care and have a commitment to ongoing integration of relevant technological developments in science and medicine.
