Accreditation & Competency Alignment Overview

What Every Provider Should Know About the Hidden Patient Experience

This clinical context training curriculum supports required competencies across undergraduate, graduate, and interprofessional healthcare education. The modules strengthen systems-based thinking, patient safety, health equity, disability competence, and applied person-centered care.

 
LCME (Undergraduate Medical Education)

Alignment Areas:

• Standard 6: Competencies, Curricular Objectives, and Design
• Standard 7.2: Patient Safety
• Standard 7.6: Cultural Competence and Health Disparities
• Standard 7.9: Interprofessional Collaborative Skills

This curriculum may be used to supplement instruction in patient safety, health equity, disability inclusion, and contextualized care planning within existing medical education programs.

 ACGME Core Competencies (Graduate Medical Education)

Primary alignment with:

• Systems-Based Practice
• Patient Care and Procedural Skills
• Interpersonal and Communication Skills

Reinforces additional competencies:

• Medical Knowledge
• Practice-Based Learning and Improvement
• Professionalism

Particularly strong emphasis on systems-based thinking, bias-aware clinical reasoning, and integrating patient context into care decisions.

AACN Essentials (Nursing Education, 2021)

Domain Alignment:

• Domain 2: Person-Centered Care
• Domain 3: Population Health
• Domain 5: Quality and Safety
• Domain 6: Interprofessional Partnerships
• Domain 7: Systems-Based Practice

Supports nursing education in applying patient context, strengthening care coordination, and improving safety across settings.

CAPTE (Physical Therapy Education)

Supports competencies related to:

• Patient-centered care and functional outcomes
• Clinical reasoning in real-world environments
• Cultural competence and inclusive practice
• Interprofessional collaboration and care coordination

Joint Commission Patient Safety Priorities

Reinforces institutional priorities including:

• Safe transitions of care
• Clear discharge communication
• Equity and bias reduction in clinical decision-making
• Patient engagement and shared understanding

Interprofessional Education (IPE)

This curriculum supports interprofessional learning by highlighting how patient context impacts coordination across disciplines, including medicine, nursing, rehabilitation, and care management.

 Implementation

This curriculum may be:

• Integrated as a standalone module series
• Embedded within existing coursework or training programs
• Used to reinforce accreditation-aligned competencies across clinical education and healthcare organizations

Why this course matters

Clinical training emphasizes diagnosis, treatment, and technical expertise.

Yet outcomes are often shaped by factors that occur outside the clinical encounter:

• What happens after discharge
• What patients manage between visits
• How care plans fit into real life
• Invisible barriers that never appear in the chart

When these realities go unrecognized, gaps appear — not because patients don’t care, but because context was never fully integrated into care. This course helps providers close that gap.

Who this course is for

• Practicing physicians focused on understanding of patient context
• Advanced practice providers, nurses, and allied health professionals
• Residency and graduate medical education programs
• Nursing and clinical education programs
• Healthcare organizations improving safety, care transitions, and communication

What learners gain

After completing this training, providers will be able to:

• Recognize hidden factors influencing follow-through and outcomes
• Identify risks that emerge during transitions and beyond the clinical setting
• Design care plans that align with real-world patient circumstances
• Strengthen communication and safety beyond the visit
• Apply patient context as essential clinical information

Why this training is different

This is clinical context training built from the hidden patient experience. It goes beyond generic communication or empathy training to focus on practical, clinically relevant decision-making.

This training is:

• Clinically grounded
• Systems-aware
• Practical for everyday care environments
• Designed to strengthen outcomes without adding unnecessary burden to providers