RVU PA students are held to a high standard of professional and ethical conduct throughout their time in the Program. Professional behavior includes, but is not limited to:
- Patient Care: hold primary responsibility for the health, safety, welfare, and dignity of all humans; assume responsibility for all professional duties; maintain patient confidentiality.
- Timeliness: punctuality for class and clinic; timely submission of assignments, evaluations, patient documentation, and other required paperwork.
- Participation: appropriate, constructive, non-derogatory participation in the classroom and clinic (further examples may be found in individual course syllabi).
- Appearance: appropriate attire, hygiene, and presentation (further examples may be found in individual course syllabi).
- Behavior: appropriate conduct, attentiveness, and non-disruptive, preparation for class and clinic, courtesy, flexibility, collaboration and support of one’s classmates and others in the clinical setting.
- Respect: regard for patients, faculty, staff, colleagues, students, members of the healthcare team, and others.
- Education: responsibility for self-education and accepting responsibility for own learning.
- Constructive Evaluation: seeking and accepting feedback maturely to change behaviors; providing constructive feedback.
- Personal Accountability: accepts responsibility for actions and behaviors; demonstrates dependability; acknowledges limitations.
- Self-Reflection: willingness to examine one’s own strengths, weaknesses, and biases.
Professional behavior will be evaluated regularly by the Student Assessment and Promotions Committee (SAPC), through review of classroom behaviors, PDAT scores, and clinical evaluations; behavior may be considered when Course Directors assign grades.