CANMEDS

1. Communicator: facilitate doctor-patient relationship and dynamic

exchanges that occur before, during and after the medical encounter
a. Build rapport, trust and ethical therapeutic relationships with
patients and families
b. Accurately get information and perspectives of patients and
families, colleagues and other professionals
c. Accurately convey information and explanations to patients,
families, colleagues, other professionals
d. Develop common understanding on issues, problems and plans with
patients and families, colleagues, other professionals to develop a
shared plan of care
e. Convey effective oral and written information about a medical
encounter
2. Collaborator: work within healthcare team to achieve optimal patient care
a. Participate effectively and appropriately in inter-professional
healthcare team
b. Effectively work with other health professionals to prevent,
negotiate, resolve conflict
3. Manager: within healthcare organizations, organizing sustainable
practices, making decisions about allocating resources, contributing to
effectiveness of healthcare system
a. Participate in activities that contribute to effectiveness of their
healthcare organization
b. Manage practice and career effectively
c. Allocate finite healthcare resources appropriately
d. Serve in administration and leadership roles
4. Health advocate: responsibly use expertise and influence to advance
health and well-being of patients, communities and populations
a. Respond to individual patient health needs and issues
b. Respond to health needs of communities
c. Identify determinants of health of the populations that they serve
d. Promote health of individual patients, communities and populations
5. Scholar: lifelong commitment to reflective learning, and also creation,
dissemination, application and translation of medical knowledge
a. Maintain and enhance professional activities through ongoing
learning
b. Critically evaluate information and its sources, apply this to practice
decisions
c. Facilitate the learning of patients,families, students, residents, other
health professionals, public and others
d. Contribute to creation, dissemination, application, translation of
new medical knowledge and practices
6. Professional : committed to health and well-being of individuals and
society through ethical practice, profession-led regulation, and high
personal standards of behaviour
a. Demonstrate commitment to patients, profession, and society
through ethical practice and participation in profession-led
regulation

b. Demonstrate commitment to physician health and sustainable

practice