Commitments of Geisinger Health System Faculty

• Act as role models for medical students by maintaining the highest standards of patient care and showing respect for and open communication with all members of the health care team.
• Will demonstrate respect for all medical students as individuals without regard to gender, race, religion, economic status, disability, or sexual orientation.
• Will commit to fostering an atmosphere of academic excellence and exemplary professionalism. Faculty will provide didactic and clinical experiences having educational value and will ensure that students have opportunities and time to pursue learning to acquire clinical knowledge and skills set forth in the clerkship objectives.
• In fulfilling the primary responsibility to patient care, faculty will provide students with ongoing and appropriate supervision throughout each clerkship.
• Will provide medical students with prompt orientation at the start of individual clerkships.
• Will provide medical students with written objectives appropriate for their level of training and evaluation expectations at the start of individual clerkships.
• Will provide medical students with easy access to syllabi, texts, and online reference materials to allow acquisition of necessary medical knowledge required to achieve the objectives for individual clerkships.
• Will provide ample opportunity for students to participate in the supervised care of patients. Students will be given progressive responsibilities and be considered an important component of the health care team, as appropriate for their level of training.
• Will provide ample opportunity for students to learn, assist in, and be supervised in performing and procedural and interpretive skills required for ongoing patient care in the clerkship’s host department and deemed appropriate for medical students.
• Will evaluate the student’s performance on a regular basis including formative mid-clerkship verbal feedback and written summative feedback at the completion of each clerkship. When necessary, will seek the assistance of other departmental faculty and residents to evaluate students. Appropriate evaluation forms must be completed and returned to Academic Affairs within 60 days of the completion of each clerkship.
• Pledge that we will work to make all components of our clerkship a high quality clinical learning experience, including our contributions as teachers, observers, and evaluators of medical students under our supervision.

Commitments of Geisinger Academic Affairs