VCOM Faculty Handbook

hosting files on a web account, transferring files through IRC, and other methods of making copyrighted material available over networks. Industry organizations such as the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) and the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) have filed copyright infringement lawsuits against individual college students who have used a file sharing program to download copyrighted material. P2P file sharing programs were developed to allow distribution and/or shared access to digitally stored information, such as computer programs, multimedia (music and video), documents, or electronic books. While some P2P technologies are legitimate, others are not. Most commercially produced music and movies are copyrighted and cannot be freely shared. Using P2P file sharing software to distribute copyrighted materials without the permission of the copyright holder is illegal and violates US copyright law. Citation Use of materials without citing appropriate references is considered unethical. When quoting materials from other sources, the source must be cited in text and in a reference list. Images are also subject to citation guidelines. If another VCOM instructor developed all or parts of a PowerPoint, their contribution must be cited appropriately, giving proper credit to the original author for their work. This may be done in the title slide or the reference slide. Educational Conflicts of Interest and Recusal VCOM is committed to ensuring that students are assessed and promoted by faculty members, fellows, residents, other allied health professionals, or committee members whose primary interest is the student’s educational development. This policy sets forth the process for avoiding potential conflicts of interest by ensuring that any faculty member, fellow, resident, or committee member with a possible conflict of interest recuses themselves from participation in any the assessment and promotion process where a conflict may exist. • Current or past family relationship with the student, such as that of a current or former significant other, partner, spouse, child, sibling, or parent; • Current or past social relationship with the student; • Private financial interest in the outcome of the decision related to the student in question; • Has provided health services to the student; • Awareness of any prejudice, pro or con, that would impair their judgment of the student in question; • Has participated or intends to participate in deliberations about the student’s circumstances at another level of review; • Believes their recusal is necessary to preserve the integrity of the review process. Health professionals providing health services to students, through a physician-patient relationship, must recuse him/herself from the academic assessment or promotion of the student receiving those services. If a faculty member, fellow, resident, or other allied health professional is assigned to a role in which they will assess a student with whom they have previously provided health care services including psychological counseling, the faculty member, fellow, or resident must recuse themselves by notifying (without breaching confidentiality) the Associate Dean for Medical Education (for OMS 1 and OMS 2 students) or the Associate Dean for Clinical Affairs (for OMS 3 and OMS 4 students). In the case of a conflict involving an OMS 1 or OMS 2 student, grading for that student will be conducted by another faculty member or by the Associate Dean for Medical Education. In the case Conflicts of interest include but are not limited to the following:

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