VCOM Administrative and Classified Staff Handbook

acts without commercial purpose and/or receives no private financial gain. Before this law took effect, people who intentionally distributed copied software over the internet did not face criminal penalties if they did not profit from their actions. Electronic copyright infringement carries a maximum penalty of three years in prison and a $250,000 fine. The NET Act is applicable in situations such as running a file sharing application with outgoing transfers enabled, 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 f aculty 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. Conflicts of interest include but are not limited to the following: • 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 that extends beyond a professional acquaintance or ordinary faculty/student activity relationships; • 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; • 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

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