- The personal files which you each have in Andi Jarone’s office
are confidential to you and the course directors and administrators.
It is not appropriate to be looking in other students' files. If you find
a document inappropriately filed in your folder, please
give it to Andi for refiling. Your own file and its contents should
also be given to her when you are finished. The office hours for access
to student
files are between 9:00 AM and 4:30 PM.
- The GOSCE stations are confidential. Discussion of specific content included
in stations should not be shared from student to student. Specifically,
second-year students should not share content with first-year students.
- The content of written examination is confidential. The sharing of tests
between year levels is not appropriate. After each test there will
be one test review where we will go over answers. After that test
review you will not be allowed to view your test. Your answers
will not be posted.
- Faculty and students have raised two different issues regarding appropriate
dress for PCM:
Student Dress When Examining One Another:
All students are encouraged to both examine and be examined by their
peers to maximize opportunities for
guided practice of examination skills. However, no student is required
(nor is their grade dependent upon) allowing others to examine them. Both
male and female students may feel more comfortable for the heart/lung and
abdominal exams wearing swimwear rather than their usual undergarments.
Another option for women during the heart/lung exam is to wear a leotard
through which heart sounds may be easily heard. GU/Pelvic exams are practiced
in first-year PCM on plastic models and in the second year—after
students have reached an appropriate level of experience—with actual
patients as models.
Student Dress With PCM Visitors:
Students need to think about professional dress and appearance when
we have visitors in PCM small and PE groups.
If visitors are coming to discuss patient-related topics, students
should be dressed professionally. If visitors are going to be to be examined by students, students should wear white coats. This increases patient confidence
and makes them more comfortable with being examined by 8-10 medical students.
Students should look ahead in the syllabus for days they will have visitors
in PCM and dress accordingly. GOSCE exams are "white coat" days.
- MISSING FACULTY: Due to clinical emergencies and miscommunications
there are times—rare, but they do occur— when instructors do
not arrive as expected for PCM classes. (This is generally only a problem
with PE instruction, for which there is only
one faculty member scheduled.) In the past, some student groups have
not known what to do in this situation, and have simply left the classroom,
missing out on important instruction. If your group has no faculty
instructor
5-10 minutes after time for class to begin, it is the groups’ responsibility
to inform the Teaching Services Office of the problem and to remain
in the classroom until it is resolved. TSO staff will quickly resolve the
situation, making sure that your group is not left without benefit
of instruction.
We hope the points above address most of students' questions regarding PCM's
general expectations. If you feel another issue should be addressed on this
page in the future, please contact the student Steering Committee representative
for your class.
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