The Mission of the OLE is to ensure a safe, respectful, and supportive education environment for all students, trainees, faculty, and staff in the School of Medicine. We achieve our mission through three key actions:
Identify
Identify concerns in the learning environment.
- Receive reports from students and educators via various methods
- Reduce barriers to student reporting
- Increase knowledge of reporting policies and procedures
- Build a culture of trust with students and educators
- Categorize and standardize report details for analysis
Respond
Implement effective responses to learning environment reports about educators.
- Create standard procedures
- Provide support and resources to reporters
- Review and respond to reports
- Protect and advocate for students
- Conduct investigations
- Recommend and facilitate interventions
- Inform reporters of the response to their report and the outcome of any intervention
- Monitor outcomes
Prevent
Promote culture of professionalism to prevent future incidents.
- Advocate for change
- Develop and conduct trainings
- Collaborate with departments, educators, and students
- Maintain advisory groups for students and faculty
- Celebrate UPSOM
- Generate reports and present data
- Recognize exemplars via Professionalism Accolades
- Conduct scholarly work