Replaces: Academic Standards Policy #1.001
To maintain effective relationships with patients, colleagues, and the community, a physician must establish a level of trust and work toward the assurance of impeccable professional integrity. To establish and maintain an environment that nurtures the habit of complete honesty, all OU-COM physicians and physicians-in-training are expected to model exemplary behavior and to avoid all suggestion of deceitfulness, in the form of fraudulence, cheating or other forms of duplicity. In addition, all OU-COM physicians in training agree to, and sign an honor code. The honor code states, “As a member of the medical profession, I will maintain the highest standards of academic and personal behavior. As a medical student, I will not cheat or plagiarize or tolerate that behavior in others.”
Definitions and examples of what constitutes the behaviors in the honor code, as well as processes for dealing with suspected violations of the honor code (either observed or committed) are detailed in the OU-COM student handbook.
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