Educator-Learner-Staff Compact

PURPOSE
To serve both as a pledge and a reminder to educators, learners, and educational staff that moral, ethical, and professional behavior by all personnel is essential to the basic principles of our institution.

AUDIENCE
All personnel working at the UC Davis SOM

LCME STANDARDS
3.4: Anti-Discrimination Policy
3.5: Learning Environment/Professionalism
3.6: Student Mistreatment

POLICY
Duty: All participants in the educational mission have a duty to sustain a learning environment conducive to maintaining the knowledge, attitudes, and skills necessary for providing contemporary standards of professional behavior.

Integrity: All education participants/parties will behave in a manner that reflects individual and institutional commitment to intellectual and moral excellence.

Respect: Fundamental to the ethic of professions is respect for every individual. Mutual respect between learners, as newer members of the profession, and their educators, as experienced professionals, is essential for nurturing that ethic. In addition to individual respect, all educational parties must respect and follow established professional policies.

PROCEDURE
All faculty and educational staff will sign this document at the start of their employment/appointment and renew it, electronically, annually. Learners and Residents will sign this document electronically, annually, at the start of the academic year.

Educator Responsibilities
As an educator, I pledge to:

  • Maintain my professional knowledge and skills
  • Ensure excellence of the educational curriculum
  • Be a model of professionalism in all interactions with faculty, learners, patients, colleagues, and staff
  • Respect all faculty, learners, patients, colleagues, and staff as individuals, without regard to gender, age, race, national origin, religion, or sexual orientation; and oppose observed disrespect or bias
  • Nurture learner commitment to achieve personal, family, and professional balance.
  • Recognize and acknowledge expressions of professional attitudes and behaviors as well as the achievement of quantifiable academic excellence
  • Respond to unprofessional behavior and indications of abuse or exploitation of faculty, learners, patients, colleagues, or staff
  • Create a safe environment in which individuals can communicate any concern about breaches of this compact
  • Accept responsibility for instilling these attributes in learners and faculty for whom I have responsibility

I have read and agree to adhere to the principles outlined in the Educator-Learner-Staff Compact as they pertain to my role.

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Learner Responsibilities
As a learner, I pledge to:

  • Acquire the knowledge, skills, attitudes, and behaviors necessary to fulfill all established educational objectives
  • Embody the professional virtues of integrity, empathy, altruism, compassion, respect, honesty, courage, and trustworthiness
  • Respect all individuals, without regard to gender, race, national origin, religion, or sexual orientation, all patients, peers, faculty, and staff
  • Uphold the highest professional standards and conduct myself accordingly in all interactions with patients, peers, faculty, and staff
  • Assist fellow learners in meeting their professional obligations, while fulfilling my own obligations as a professional
  • Help create a safe environment in which individuals can communicate any concern about breaches of this compact

I have read and agree to adhere to the principles outlined in the Educator-Learner-Staff Compact as they pertain to my role.

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Educational Staff Responsibilities
As educational staff, I pledge to:

  • Maintain my professional knowledge and skills
  • Help ensure excellence of the educational curriculum
  • Embody professionalism in all interactions with faculty, learners, patients, colleagues, and staff
  • Respect all faculty, learners, patients, colleagues, and staff as individuals, without regard to gender, age, race, national origin, religion, or sexual orientation; and oppose observed disrespect or bias
  • Help create a safe environment in which faculty, learners, and staff can work and can communicate any concern about breaches of this compact

I have read and agree to adhere to the principles outlined in the Educator-Learner-Staff Compact as they pertain to my role.

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RESPONSIBILITY
Committee on Educational Policy

REFERENCES
N/A

POLICY OWNER
Office of Medical Education

REVIEWED BY
Committee on Educational Policy
Faculty Executive Committee of the School of Medicine
Office of Medical Education*

REVIEWED DATE and REVIEW CYCLE
December 2021; 5-year cycle