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Curriculum standards

Entrustable Professional Activities

LG8: Investigations and procedures in nuclear medicine

Learning Goal 8

Longitudinal care

Manage and coordinate the longitudinal care of patients with chronic illness, disability, and/or long-term health issues

This activity requires the ability to:

  • develop management plans and goals in consultation with patients
  • manage chronic and advanced conditions, comorbidities, complications, and disabilities
  • collaborate with other care providers
  • ensure continuity of care
  • facilitate patients' self-management and self-monitoring
  • engage with the broader health policy context

Professional practice framework domain

Medical expertise

confident
Ready to perform without supervision

Expected behaviours of a trainee who can routinely perform this activity without needing supervision

The trainee will:

  • regularly assess and review care plans for patients with chronic conditions and disabilities based on short- and long-term clinical and quality of life goals
  • provide documentation on patients’ presentation, management, and progress, including key points of diagnosis and decision making, to inform coordination of care
  • ensure patients contribute to their needs assessments and care planning
  • monitor treatment outcomes, effectiveness, and adverse events
  • recognise need and outline key components for comprehensive long-term management plans
  • use preventative interventions, such as immunisation and pre-exposure prophylaxis, for the prevention of infectious diseases

direction
Requires some supervision

Possible behaviours of a trainee who needs some supervision to perform this activity

The trainee may:

  • assess patients’ knowledge, beliefs, concerns, and daily behaviours related to their chronic condition and/or disability and its management
  • contribute to medical record entries on histories, examinations, and management plans in a way that is accurate and sufficient as a member of multidisciplinary teams

Communication

confident
Ready to perform without supervision

Expected behaviours of a trainee who can routinely perform this activity without needing supervision

The trainee will:

  • encourage patients’ self-management through education to take greater responsibility for their care, and support problem solving, including empowering young people in paediatric care
  • communicate with multidisciplinary team members, and involve patients in that dialogue
  • encourage and support parents and carers in caring for their children, and, if relevant, liaise with early childhood or educational settings
  • educate patients to recognise and monitor their symptoms, and undertake strategies to assist their recovery
  • educate patients about their health, using strength-based approaches and consideration of psychosocial context, including during transition from paediatric to adult care
  • provide a comprehensive summary of relevant medical information for patients transitioning from paediatric to adult care
  • incorporate appropriate LGBTQIA+ safe language, including gender affirming language

direction
Requires some supervision

Possible behaviours of a trainee who needs some supervision to perform this activity

The trainee may:

  • provide healthy lifestyle advice and information to patients on the importance of self-management
  • work in partnership with patients, and motivate them to comply with agreed care plans

Quality and safety

confident
Ready to perform without supervision

Expected behaviours of a trainee who can routinely perform this activity without needing supervision

The trainee will:

  • use innovative models of chronic disease care, using telehealth and digitally integrated support services
  • review medicine use, and ensure patients understand safe medication administration to prevent errors
  • support patients’ self-management by balancing between minimising risk and helping them become more independent
  • participate in quality improvement processes impacting on patients’ abilities to undertake normal activities of daily living

direction
Requires some supervision

Possible behaviours of a trainee who needs some supervision to perform this activity

The trainee may:

  • participate in continuous quality improvement processes and clinical audits on chronic disease management
  • identify activities that may improve patients’ quality of life

Teaching and learning

confident
Ready to perform without supervision

Expected behaviours of a trainee who can routinely perform this activity without needing supervision

The trainee will:

  • contribute to the development of clinical pathways for chronic diseases management, based on current clinical guidelines

direction
Requires some supervision

Possible behaviours of a trainee who needs some supervision to perform this activity

The trainee may:

  • use clinical practice guidelines for chronic diseases management

Research

confident
Ready to perform without supervision

Expected behaviours of a trainee who can routinely perform this activity without needing supervision

The trainee will:

  • search for and critically appraise evidence to resolve clinical areas of uncertainty

direction
Requires some supervision

Possible behaviours of a trainee who needs some supervision to perform this activity

The trainee may:

  • search literature using problem / intervention / comparison / outcome (PICO) format
  • recognise appropriate use of review articles

Cultural safety

confident
Ready to perform without supervision

Expected behaviours of a trainee who can routinely perform this activity without needing supervision

The trainee will:

  • encourage patients from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds to join local networks to receive the support needed for long-term self-management

direction
Requires some supervision

Possible behaviours of a trainee who needs some supervision to perform this activity

The trainee may:

  • provide culturally safe chronic disease management

Ethics and professional behaviour

confident
Ready to perform without supervision

Expected behaviours of a trainee who can routinely perform this activity without needing supervision

The trainee will:

  • share information about patients’ health care, consistent with privacy laws and professional guidelines on confidentiality
  • use consent processes for the release and exchange of health information
  • assess patients’ decision-making capacity, and appropriately identify and use proxy decision makers

direction
Requires some supervision

Possible behaviours of a trainee who needs some supervision to perform this activity

The trainee may:

  • share information between relevant service providers
  • acknowledge and respect the contribution of health professionals involved in patients’ care

Judgement and decision making

confident
Ready to perform without supervision

Expected behaviours of a trainee who can routinely perform this activity without needing supervision

The trainee will:

  • implement stepped care pathways in the management of chronic diseases and disabilities
  • recognise patients’ needs in terms of both internal resources and external support on long-term health care journeys
  • apply clinical judgement and knowledge of infectious diseases to formulate patient-centred management plans

direction
Requires some supervision

Possible behaviours of a trainee who needs some supervision to perform this activity

The trainee may:

  • recognise personal limitations and seek help in an appropriate way when required

Leadership, management, and teamwork

confident
Ready to perform without supervision

Expected behaviours of a trainee who can routinely perform this activity without needing supervision

The trainee will:

  • coordinate whole-person care through involvement in all stages of patients’ care journeys
  • use a multidisciplinary approach across services to manage patients with chronic diseases and disabilities
  • develop collaborative relationships with patients, families, carers, and a range of health professionals

direction
Requires some supervision

Possible behaviours of a trainee who needs some supervision to perform this activity

The trainee may:

  • participate in multidisciplinary care for patients with chronic diseases and disabilities, including organisational and community care, on a continuing basis, appropriate to patients’ context

Health policy, systems, and advocacy

confident
Ready to perform without supervision

Expected behaviours of a trainee who can routinely perform this activity without needing supervision

The trainee will:

  • use health screening for early intervention and chronic diseases management
  • assess alternative models of health care delivery for patients with chronic diseases and disabilities
  • engage in government initiatives to manage chronic diseases, reduce hospital admissions, improve patients’ quality of life, and facilitate access to services for patients with chronic diseases and disabilities

direction
Requires some supervision

Possible behaviours of a trainee who needs some supervision to perform this activity

The trainee may:

  • demonstrate awareness of government initiatives and services available for patients with chronic diseases and disabilities, and display knowledge of how to access them