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Standards of Conduct in the Teacher-Learner Relationship
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 with 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
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 professions. Essential to nurturing that ethic is mutual respect among students, novice members of the profession, and 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
1. We pledge our utmost effort to ensure that all components of the educational program for students, interns, and residents are of high quality.
2. As mentors to our students, interns, and resident colleagues, we maintain high professional standards in all of our interactions with patients, colleagues, and staff.
3. 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 expresses biased attitudes toward any student, intern, or resident.
4. We pledge that students, interns, and residents will have sufficient time to fulfill personal and family obligations, to enjoy recreational activities, and 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 students’, interns’, and residents’ wellbeing.
5. In nurturing both the intellectual and personal development of students, interns, and residents, we celebrate expressions of professional attitudes and behaviors, as well as the achievement of academic excellence.
6. We do not tolerate any abuse or exploitation of students, interns, or residents. We encourage any student, intern, or resident who experiences mistreatment or witnesses unprofessional behavior to report the facts immediately to the appropriate faculty or staff. We treat all such reports as confidential and do not tolerate reprisals or retaliation of any kind.
Commitments of Students, Interns, and Residents
1. We pledge our utmost effort to acquire the knowledge, skills, attitudes, and behaviors required to fulfill all educational objectives established by the faculty.
2. We cherish the professional virtues of honesty, compassion, integrity, loyalty, and dependability.
3. We pledge to respect all faculty members and all fellow students, interns, and residents as individuals, without regard to gender, race, national origin, religion, or sexual orientation.
4. As health professionals in training, we embrace the highest standards of the profession and pledge to conduct ourselves accordingly in all our interactions with patients, faculty, colleagues, and staff.
5. 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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