Ponce Health Sciences University adapts and incorporates the AAMC model of Standards of Conduct in the Teacher- Learner Relationship, and encourages faculty and students to familiarize themselves and pledge adherence to this policy statement:
Preparation for a career in the health care professions demands the acquisition of a large fund of knowledge and a host of special skills. It also demands the strengthening of those virtues that are expected in the health provider/patient relationship and that sustain the health profession as a moral enterprise. This policy statement serves both as a pledge and as a reminder to teachers and learners that their conduct in fulfilling their mutual obligations is the medium through which the profession inculcates its ethical values.
Guiding Principles
| Duty |
Ponce Health Sciences University faculty has a duty, not only to convey the knowledge and skills required for delivering the profession’s contemporary standard of care, but also to inculcate the values and attitudes required for preserving the profession’s social contract across generations. |
| Integrity |
The learning environments conducive to conveying professional values must be suffused with integrity. Students learn enduring lessons of professionalism by observing and emulating role models who epitomize authentic professional values and attitudes. |
| Respect |
Respect for every individual is fundamental to the ethics of the health professional. Essential for nurturing that ethics is the mutual respect for every individual by students, novice members of the profession, as well as by their teachers, as experienced and esteemed professionals. Given the inherently hierarchical nature of the teacher/learner relationship, teachers have a special obligation to ensure that students, interns and residents are always treated respectfully. |
Commitments of Faculty
- We pledge our utmost effort to ensure that all components of the educational program for students, interns and residents are of high quality.
- As mentors for our students, interns and resident colleagues, we maintain high professional standards in all of our interactions with patients, colleagues, and staff.
- We respect all students, interns and residents as individuals, without regard to gender, race, national origin, religion, or sexual orientation; we will not tolerate anyone who manifests disrespect or who expresses biased attitudes towards any student, intern or resident.
- We pledge that students, interns and residents will have sufficient time to fulfill personal and family obligations, to enjoy recreational activities, and to obtain adequate rest. We monitor and, when necessary, reduce the time required to fulfill educational objectives, including time required for “call” on clinical rotations, to ensure student’s, intern’s and resident’s wellbeing.
- In nurturing both the intellectual and the personal development of students, interns and residents, we celebrate expressions of professional attitudes and behaviors, as well as achievement of academic excellence.
- We do not tolerate any abuse or exploitation of students, interns or residents. We encourage any student, intern or resident who experiences mistreatment or who witnesses unprofessional behavior to report the facts immediately to appropriate faculty or staff; we treat all such reports as confidential and do not tolerate reprisals or retaliations of any kind.
Commitments of Students, Interns, and Residents
- We pledge our utmost effort to acquire the knowledge, skills, attitudes, and behaviors required to fulfill all educational objectives established by the faculty.
- We cherish the professional virtues of honesty, compassion, integrity, loyalty and dependability
- We pledge to respect all faculty members and all students, interns and residents as individuals, without regard to gender, race, national origin, religion, or sexual orientation.
- As health professionals in training, we embrace the highest standards of the profession and pledge to conduct ourselves accordingly in all of our interactions with patients, faculty colleagues, and staff.
- As well as fulfilling our own obligations as professionals, we pledge to assist our fellow students, interns and residents in meeting their professional obligations.
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