2 RISP Honor Code
Embarking on a career in the life sciences, medicine, and other healthcare professions is a privilege that carries lifelong moral and ethical responsibilities and begins the moment an individual becomes a member of the academic medicine community.
To achieve its vision to lead the transformation of health care through quality, innovation, and education to make Indiana one of the nation’s healthiest states, the IU School of Medicine (IUSM) must recruit and nurture exceptional individuals who are equipped to learn, teach, practice, and conduct research in challenging and diverse settings. IUSM expects its community members to treat one another respectfully and facilitate an atmosphere of cooperation and collegiality. The School demands excellence and expects community members to always act with integrity. Recognizing the damaging effects that bias, discrimination, and exclusion have on the work environment, patient care, medical research, medical education, and healthcare outcomes, IUSM strives to be a place that is diverse, welcoming, and inclusive for all and commits to identifying and dismantling hate, oppression, systemic racism, and discrimination in academic medicine. IUSM expects all in its community to reflect on these values and ensure that their views, beliefs, actions, and inactions do not, intentionally or unintentionally, perpetuate the problem of healthcare inequity.
To this end, the IUSM Honor Code outlines the core values governing research, education, and clinical practice that all IUSM community members, including students, faculty, and staff, are expected to uphold. These include:
- Excellence reflected in the innovative conduct and advancement of education, research, and patient care.
- I will strive for excellence in all I do, including advancing my field and/or providing the highest quality of care to all patients at all times. I commit myself to lifelong professional development, continuous improvement, and advancing research and the practice of medicine. I will recognize my limitations, be open to feedback, and seek help when appropriate.
- Respect for all individuals affiliated with, or come in contact with, Indiana University School of Medicine: students, residents, fellows, faculty, staff partners, communities, patients, and families.
- I will respond to societal needs with competence, altruism, and morality, reflecting the expectations of the social contract with my community. I will respect the dignity of others, display cultural humility, and act with civility and compassion. I recognize that a career in the life sciences, medicine, and other healthcare professions requires me to subordinate my own interests to the interests of those I serve.
- Integrity that embraces the very highest standards of ethical behavior and exemplary moral character.
- I will take responsibility for what I say and do in my personal and professional activities, maintaining the highest standards of honesty and civility. I wil