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CODE OF CONDUCT POLICIES AND PROCEDURES
Florida Hospital Graduate Medical Education Department
holds the integrity of the teaching faculty - trainee
relationship as central to its educational mission. Trainees
include medical students, residents, fellows and rotating
physicians. This relationship confers considerable trust
in the teaching faculty members who consequently bears
authority and accountability as advisor/mentor, educator,
and evaluator to the trainee. The unequal institutional
power inherent in this relationship heightens the vulnerability
of the trainee and the potential for coercion.
The
academic relationship between a teaching faculty member
and trainee must be protected from influences or activities
that can interfere with the educational environment consistent
with the mission of FH GME. Whenever a faculty member
is responsible for academic supervision of a trainee,
a personal relationship between them that is abusive in
nature or of a romantic or sexual nature, even if consensual,
will never be tolerated.
BEHAVIORS CONSIDERED UNACCEPTABLE
1.
Perceived inappropriate comments directed at an individual
related to the person's gender, sexual orientation, racial
background, religion, or physical ability.
2.
Verbal abuse, derogatory or degrading remarks, or threats
of retaliation. This also includes threat of/or actual
physical contact of any kind when there is a perception
of physical violence.
3.
Assigning tasks for punishment rather than for educational
benefit or denying equal educational opportunities as
a punishment.
4.
Use of public humiliation or intimidation as a method
of teaching or use of derogatory terms when referring
to another person.
5.
Performance rating used to punish rather than as an objective
evaluation of the performance.
6.
Preferential treatment as a result of relationship.
7.
Sexual harassment of any kind even in jest after the person
responsible for the behavior has been informed that they
are embarrassing or offensive or that are by their nature
reasonably known to be embarrassing or offensive.
8.
Initiating or maintaining intimate romantic or sexual
relationships between faculty and trainees or between
physicians and patients.
9.
Any acts of dishonesty, falsification, plagiarism, misrepresentation
or deception, whether deliberate or unintentional.
10.
Being under the influence of alcohol and/or drugs while
on Florida Hospital property.
11.
Any other acts not covered above but are deemed in opposition
to Florida Hospital mission and values.
PROCEDURES
This
section is designed to outline the procedures to facilitate
a progressive remedial and
disciplinary approach to the management of allegations
of violations to any of the above
policies. The implementation of this outlined process
is subject to modification upon the
discretion of the Chief of Academic Officer with consultation
of its senior administrators.
Any
individual who has observed or been the subject of an
unacceptable behavior is to
report the event immediately to the appropriate Program
Director, either verbally or in
writing. The report will be treated with confidentiality.
Once a report has been received,
the following procedures will be followed:
Step
1: Investigation of the allegation. Both the complainant
and the alleged will be counseled informally on the results.
Step
2: Documented formal discussion with the Program Director
with an action plan from the perpetrator within 3 days
of the discussion.
Step
3: Program Director presents the case in writing to the
Chief Academic Officer who will take specific action in
consultation with senior administration.
There
may be a single violation that is deemed so severe and
requires immediate action
that any progressive and disciplinary approach is judged
as inappropriate.
FH
POLICY NUMBER 010.120-1, PART I AND PART II
Florida
Hospital has established policies and procedures applicable
to the entire Florida Hospital community of health care
professionals and employees (PART I) and members of the
Medical Staff and their Allied Health Professionals (PART
II). These established policies are also relevant to FH
GME although FH GME policies and procedures take precedence
over FH Policies wherever applicable. |
