For reference: definition of mistreatment per medical student advising handbook
Mutual respect between students and other healthcare professionals may be expressed in many ways but all interactions should include honesty, fairness, and evenhanded treatment. Behaviors that are inherently destructive to the teacher-learner relationship or the learning environment are prohibited. Students are adult learners and, as such, deserve the respect one would give to colleagues. Examples of abusive treatment of students include but are not limited to the following:
- Public berating and humiliation
- Intellectual “bullying”
- Deliberately and repeatedly excluding students from reasonable learning opportunities
- Asking students to carry out personal chores or tasks to cull favor or to avoid explicit or implicit criticism
- Destructive criticism
- Physical punishment or physical threats (e.g., hitting, slapping, pushing, kicking, the threat of physical punishment or intentionally or negligently placing another at risk of physical harm)
- Sexual harassment (e.g., physical or verbal advances, discomforting humor, soliciting sexual favors in exchange for grades or opportunities)
- Discrimination based on student’s race, religion, ethnicity, sex, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, or physical or mental disabilities
- Grading used to punish a student rather than to evaluate objective performance
- Assigning tasks for punishment rather than to evaluate objective performance
- Intentional neglect or intentional lack of communication