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Rush Medical College students have instituted this honor code to affirm their commitments to academic and personal integrity, sound moral character, and respect for the rights and dignity of others. The spirit of this code is in keeping with our aspirations as future practicing physicians to uphold values of responsible behavior and honesty in dealing with patients, peers and colleagues.
This commitment confers a shared responsibility of faculty, staff, and students in the Rush University community to ensure the highest standards of behavior, whether this is in the classroom or in the clinical setting. This responsibility includes efforts to minimize factors that put individuals at risk for inappropriate action and to keep an open forum for discussion of ethical and professional issues.
This Honor Code does not specifically address all forms of inappropriate behavior but it does apply to conduct throughout the undergraduate curriculum. In the pre-clinical curriculum, concerns include security of examination materials, various forms of cheating on examinations, plagiarism, and respect for intellectual property protection in reference to syllabus materials, copyrights, and electronic media. In the clinical pre-professional setting, professional behavior is central to the student's educational experience.
In recognition of the responsibility to uphold these standards, a student or faculty member who becomes aware of or suspects inappropriate conduct is bound to consider several options: foremost would be to approach an individual directly with regard to the particular concern; or, after due consideration, to report the concern to the appropriate authority for purposes of investigation. Such allegations, which may or may not name (an) individual(s), can be made to supervisors, program directors or administrators, the Committee on Student Judiciary Review, or to the Associate Dean of Medical Student Programs.
It is our belief that recognition of these factors, while mostly self-evident, has a significant impact on the fairness and standards of professionalism at Rush Medical College. It is commitment to these ideals, in addition to the development of competence as a student to meet the challenges of medical training, that are at the core of our future as practicing physicians."
When Rush Medical College students sign this document, they acknowledge that it will become part of their permanent record and that they are expected to abide by and uphold the letter and the spirit of this Honor Code throughout their medical education.
Please see the “University Statement on Academic Honesty” at www.rushu.rush.edu/catalog/acadresources/academichonesty.html for additional policies.
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