Preamble
The academic community of the School of Medicine is committed to maintaining an environment
of open and honest intellectual inquiry. Both faculty, residents, and students have
the right to enjoy an educational environment characterized by the highest standards
of ethical professional conduct. The individuals who comprise the LSUHSC campus come
from many different cultural backgrounds. Discriminatory comments or actions relative
to gender, sexual orientation, racial origin, creed, age, physical or mental status
can interfere with an individual's performance and create an intimidating, hostile,
and offensive educational and work environment. Individuals who manifest such unprofessional
behavior in any of these areas are disruptive and in violation of the LSU Health Sciences Center Code of Professional Conduct
and of LSU Medical Center Policy. More information on physicianship and medical professionalism,
and the link to the LSU-NO educational program objectives can be found here: Physicianship & Medical Professionalism
The students, residents, and faculty share the responsibility, to themselves and to their colleagues, to protect their individual rights and those of the academic community as a whole. To this end, and to ensure the rights of due process to members of the academic community, the students, residents, and faculty of the School of Medicine are expected to abide by the Code of Professional Conduct which governs questions of professional conduct, including but not limited to, dishonest, disruptive, discriminatory, and illegal activities. Penalty for such misconduct could lead to dismissal from the LSU School of Medicine.
Specific definitions of misconduct, including academic and non academic misconduct and procedures for addressing them can be found in CM-56.
Questions of academic misconduct are addressed by the Council on Student Professional conduct, through procedures established specifically for that purpose.
Contact the Council on Student Professional Conduct