As set forth in the Learning Environment Policy of the School of Medicine, SGU does not tolerate student mistreatment. Students who experience mistreatment are expected and encouraged to report the mistreatment.
There are several mechanisms for such reporting:
- Direct Reporting To Office Of The Dean Of Students
Students are encouraged to report incidents of mistreatment to the immediate attention of the Office of the Dean of Students (dos@sgu.edu), which will treat such reports with discretion.
- Reporting Through Ethicspoint
Students can report mistreatment anonymously using EthicsPoint, which is a confidential 24/7 reporting tool. Reports can be made online at https://secure.ethicspoint.com/domain/media/en/gui/ 57112/index.html or by phone (1-844-423-5100). This reporting portal allows students to report misconduct to an outsourced third party, which then confidentially directs reports to the appropriate office at SGU.
- Reporting After Courses/Clerkships
Students can provide feedback about mistreatment through SGU surveys. Questions about the learning environment, including any experience of mistreatment, are on the end-of-course/ clerkship evaluations and on the SGU learning environment survey. Feedback from surveys is reviewed at an aggregate and de-identified level by the Learning Environment Committee (LEC). The LEC monitors the learning environment for observable trends and makes recommendations to the dean of the school of medicine on how to enhance positive influences and mitigate negative influences.
Student feedback through surveys is important in helping SGU maintain a positive learning environment for students in all phases of the MD program. However, this post-hoc mechanism of reporting mistreatment is likely to result in a delay in interventions; thus, students are encouraged to also report their mistreatment immediately to the Office of the Dean of Students so that a real-time intervention, if warranted, can be enacted.