Competency

By the completion of Basic Training, a trainee will be able to:

Develop knowledge of the scientific basis of health and disease and apply this to the management of patients (see knowledge guides).

By the completion of Basic Training, a trainee will be able to:

By the completion of Basic Training, a trainee will be able to:

Gather relevant data via age- and context-appropriate means to develop reasonable differential diagnoses, recognising and considering interactions and impacts of comorbidities.

By the completion of Basic Training, a trainee will be able to:

Formulate management plans in partnership with patients, families, or carers¹ and in collaboration with the health care team. 

¹References to patients in the remainder of this document may include their families or carers.

By the completion of Basic Training, a trainee will be able to:

Develop diagnoses and management plans that integrate an understanding of individual patients’ circumstances, including psychosocial factors and specific vulnerabilities, epidemiology, and population health factors (see knowledge guides).

Competency

By the completion of Basic Training, a trainee will be able to:

Use effective and appropriate verbal, non-verbal, and written communication skills.

By the completion of Basic Training, a trainee will be able to:

Demonstrate collaborative, effective, and empathetic communication with patients, families, and carers.

By the completion of Basic Training, a trainee will be able to:

• Demonstrate collaborative, respectful, and empathetic clinical communication with juniors, peers, senior colleagues, and other health professionals and agencies.
• Demonstrate collaborative and effective communication regarding training with supervisors and professional bodies.

Competency

By the completion of Basic Training, a trainee will be able to:

Take responsibility for the safe care of individual patients.

By the completion of Basic Training, a trainee will be able to:

• Optimise safe working practices.
• Understand and participate in recognition of and reporting on adverse events and errors to improve healthcare systems.

By the completion of Basic Training, a trainee will be able to:

Engage in continuous quality improvement methods.

Competency

By the completion of Basic Training, a trainee will be able to:

Undertake effective self-education and continuing professional development.

By the completion of Basic Training, a trainee will be able to:

• Use appropriate educational techniques to promote understanding of health and disease amongst patients.
• Use appropriate educational techniques to facilitate the learning of peers, junior colleagues, and other health professionals.
• Provide supervision for junior colleagues. 

Competency

By the completion of Basic Training, a trainee will be able to:

Refer to evidence-based clinical guidelines and critically analyse medical literature, understanding the limitations of evidence and the challenges of applying research in daily practice.

By the completion of Basic Training, a trainee will be able to:

Understand research methodology and the process for designing a research project.

Competency

By the completion of Basic Training, a trainee will be able to:

Identify and address their own cultural learning needs.

By the completion of Basic Training, a trainee will be able to:

• Communicate effectively with people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds.
• Recognise and respect the influence of cultural and religious backgrounds, attitudes and beliefs, and socioeconomic backgrounds, when managing and treating patients.
• Recognise how the special status of Māori (New Zealand) and the special history of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples (Australia) impacts on their current health status.

By the completion of Basic Training, a trainee will be able to:

• Identify and act on cultural bias or inequity within healthcare services and other organisations.
• Develop effective cross-cultural partnerships to improve health outcomes.

Competency

By the completion of Basic Training, a trainee will be able to:

• Reflect critically on personal beliefs and attitudes, including how these may impact on patients’ care.
• Conduct themselves honestly, including reporting accurately, not cheating or plagiarising, and acknowledging their own errors.
• Prioritise patients’ welfare and community benefit above self-interest.

By the completion of Basic Training, a trainee will be able to:

• Be personally and socially accountable, consistent with professional and community expectations.
• Practise within their own limits and within ethical and professional frameworks, and seek help when needed.
• Recognise and respect the personal and professional integrity, roles, and contribution of peers.
• Interact equitably, collaboratively, and respectfully with other health professionals.

By the completion of Basic Training, a trainee will be able to:

• Respect patients, avoid any inappropriate relationships, and behave equitably towards all.
• Protect patients’ rights to privacy and confidentiality.

By the completion of Basic Training, a trainee will be able to:

• Demonstrate a caring attitude towards patients.
• Understand and address patients’, families’, carers’, and colleagues’ physical and emotional health needs.

By the completion of Basic Training, a trainee will be able to:

Understand and practise according to current community and professional ethical standards and legal requirements. 

Competency

By the completion of Basic Training, a trainee will be able to:

• Apply sound diagnostic reasoning to clinical problems, to make logical and safe clinical decisions.
• Apply judicious and cost-effective use of health resources to their practice.

By the completion of Basic Training, a trainee will be able to:

• Recognise their own limitations and seek help when required.
• Apply good judgement and decision making to the delegation of tasks.

Competency

By the completion of Basic Training, a trainee will be able to:

Develop leadership and management skills to enable them to become a role model and leader in professional practice.

By the completion of Basic Training, a trainee will be able to:

Work effectively in multidisciplinary teams.

By the completion of Basic Training, a trainee will be able to:

Maintain personal health and wellbeing and consider the health and safety of juniors, peers, senior colleagues, and other health professionals.

Competency

By the completion of Basic Training, a trainee will be able to:

• Understand the health needs of the local community and the broader health needs of the people of Australia and New Zealand.
• Understand the population health approach to the prevention of illness, promotion of health, and control of disease.
• Understand current strategies to reduce inequities in health status.

By the completion of Basic Training, a trainee will be able to:

Demonstrate a basic understanding of health funding and the influence of societal, political, and economic pressures.

By the completion of Basic Training, a trainee will be able to:

Respond to individual patients’ health needs by advocating for them within and outside the clinical environment.