Learning Environment
The Burnett School of Medicine has adopted the AAMC Statement on the Learning Environment:
AAMC Language for Learning Environment
“We believe that the learning environment for medical education shapes the patient care environment. The highest quality of safe and effective care for patients and the highest quality of effective and appropriate education are rooted in human dignity.
“We embrace our responsibility to create, support, and facilitate the learning environment shared by our patients, learners, and teachers. In this environment, our patients witness, experience, and expect a pervasive sense of respect, collegiality, kindness, and cooperation among health care team members. This includes all professionals, administrators, staff, and beginning and advanced learners from all health professions. This includes research as well as patient care environments.
“We affirm our responsibility to create, support, and facilitate a learning environment that fosters resilience in all participants. It is our responsibility to create an atmosphere in which our learners and teachers are willing to engage with learning processes that can be inherently uncomfortable and challenging.
“We affirm our commitment to shaping a culture of teaching and learning that is rooted in respect for all. Fostering resilience, excellence, compassion, and integrity allows us to create patient care, research, and learning environments that are built upon constructive collaboration, mutual respect, and human dignity.”
Code of Conduct Including Learning Environment: Reporting and Resolution of Concerns
It is the professional and moral responsibility of any member of the school to report any observed potential violations of school or university policies and/or codes of conduct. For more information, please refer to the Code of Conduct, Including Learning Environment: Reporting and Resolution of Concerns.
Learning Environment and Student Mistreatment Policy
The School of Medicine ensures that students, faculty and staff consistently demonstrate professional behaviors in order to create a safe and effective learning environment with a zero-tolerance for any form of mistreatment within the school, and notably against students. For more information, please refer to the Learning Environment and Student Mistreatment Policy.
Contact the Professionalism Resource Officer
Mary Elizabeth Herring, J.D.
Professionalism Resource Officer
Cell: 979-224-0824
Email: m.e.herring@tcu.edu