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1. Practise medicine within their defined scope of practice and expertise
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1.3. Apply knowledge of the clinical and biomedical sciences relevant to Internal Medicine
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1.3.6. Principles of antimicrobial prophylaxis, antibiotic stewardship, and infection prevention and control
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1.4. Apply knowledge of the following systems, clinical scenarios, conditions, diseases and therapies applicable to Internal Medicine, including the manifestations, investigation, and management
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1.4.13. Medical aspects of specific situations
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1.4.13.6. The elderly
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1.4.13.6.3. Therapies
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1.4.13.6.3.1. Rational drug prescribing
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1. Respond to an individual patient’s health needs by advocating with the patient within and beyond the clinical environment
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1.3. Incorporate disease prevention, health promotion, and health surveillance into interactions with individual patients
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1.3.1. Work with the patient and their family to identify opportunities for disease prevention, health promotion, and health protection
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1.3.2. Evaluate the potential benefits and harms of health screening with the patient
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2. Respond to the needs of the communities or populations they serve by advocating with them for system-level change in a socially accountable manner
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2.1. Work with a community or population to identify the determinants of health that affect them
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2.2. Improve clinical practice by applying a process of continuous quality improvement to disease prevention, health promotion, and health surveillance activities
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