Curriculum standards

Ready to perform without supervision

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

The trainee will:

• communicate openly, listen, and take patients’ concerns seriously, giving them adequate opportunity to ask questions
• provide information to patients and their family or carers to enable them to make fully informed decisions
• communicate clearly, effectively, respectfully, and promptly with other health professionals involved in patients’ care
• use technology, such as AI, in development of written communication, where appropriate

Requires some supervision

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

The trainee may:

• anticipate, read, and respond to verbal and nonverbal cues
• demonstrate active listening skills
• communicate patients’ dispositions to colleagues, including senior clinicians

Ready to perform without supervision

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

The trainee will:

• provide accurate, clear, complete, and timely documentation of clinical information in patients’ medical records
• demonstrate safety skills, including infection control, adverse event reporting, and effective clinical handover
• obtain informed consent before undertaking any investigation or providing treatment (except in an emergency)
• inform patients of the material risks associated with any part of proposed management plans
• recognise the value and pitfalls of using evolving technologies, such as AI, to aid clinical decision making

Requires some supervision

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

The trainee may:

• perform hand hygiene, and take infection control precautions at appropriate moments

Ready to perform without supervision

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

The trainee will:

• set defined objectives for clinical teaching encounters, and solicit feedback on mutually agreed goals
• regularly reflect upon and self-evaluate professional development
• obtain informed consent before involving patients in teaching activities
• turn clinical activities into an opportunity to teach and learn, appropriate to the setting

Ready to perform without supervision

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

The trainee will:

• search for, find, collate, analyse, interpret, and evaluate information relevant to the research subject

Requires some supervision

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

The trainee may:

• refer to guidelines and medical literature to assist in clinical assessments when required
• recognise the limitations of evidence and the challenges of applying research in clinical practice

Ready to perform without supervision

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

The trainee will:

• use plain-language patient education materials, and demonstrate cultural and linguistic sensitivity
• demonstrate effective and culturally safe communication and care for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and Māori, and members of other cultural groups
• use a professional interpreter, health advocate, or a family or community member to assist in communication with patients, and recognise the potential limitations of each
• acknowledge patients’ beliefs and values, and how these might impact on their health

Requires some supervision

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

The trainee may:

• demonstrate respect for patients’ cultures, and attentiveness to social determinants of health
• appropriately access interpretive or culturally focused services
• recognise cultural sensitivities

Ready to perform without supervision

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

The trainee will:

• demonstrate professional values, including compassion, empathy, respect for diversity, integrity, honesty, and partnership to all patients and colleagues
• hold information about patients in confidence, unless the release of information is required by law or public interest
• assess patients’ capacity for decision making, involving a proxy decision maker appropriately
• demonstrate awareness of medicolegal and social issues around child protection
• identify and manage families at high psychosocial risk, including taking full drug and alcohol histories
• identify strategies for the safe discharge and community support of families at high psychosocial risk
• identify ethical challenges with implementation of evolving technologies, including AI, into clinical practice

Requires some supervision

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

The trainee may:

• demonstrate professional conduct, honesty, and integrity
• consider patients’ decision-making capacity
• identify patients’ preferences regarding management and the role of families in decision making
• not advance personal interest or professional agendas at the expense of patient or social welfare

Ready to perform without supervision

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

The trainee will:

• use a holistic approach to health, considering comorbidity, risk, and uncertainty
• use the best available evidence for the most effective therapies and interventions to ensure quality care
• apply knowledge and experience to identify patients’ problems, making logical, rational decisions, and acting to achieve positive outcomes for patients
• use technology safely and ethically for aiding decisions, and where appropriate

Requires some supervision

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

The trainee may:

• demonstrate clinical reasoning by gathering focused information relevant to patients’ care
• recognise personal limitations and seek help in an appropriate way when required

Ready to perform without supervision

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

The trainee will:

• work effectively as a member of multidisciplinary teams to achieve the best health outcomes for patients
• demonstrate awareness of colleagues in difficulty, and work within the appropriate structural systems to support them while maintaining patients’ safety

Requires some supervision

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

The trainee may:

• share relevant information with members of the healthcare team

Ready to perform without supervision

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

The trainee will:

• participate in health promotion, disease prevention and control, screening, and reporting notifiable diseases
• aim to achieve the optimal cost-effective patient care to allow maximum benefit from the available resources
• demonstrate a collaborative approach to developing protocols, such as for the prevention and management of perinatal sepsis, hand washing, and infection control measures in clinical practice
• advocate and support infection control policies and practices in the neonatal unit

Requires some supervision

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

The trainee may:

• identify and navigate components of the healthcare system relevant to patients’ care
• identify and access relevant community resources to support patients’ care