Key date to remember

Official LCME site visit: Feb. 18-21, 2024

Oversight of learning environment

Element 3.5 — Learning environment/professionalism

What: Medical educators are responsible for maintaining a learning environment that promotes appropriate behaviors and professional standards for all students, faculty and staff.

Why: The School of Medicine is committed to providing an equitable and inclusive environment that fosters professionalism and mutual respect among all learners and educators.

Call to action:

Visit the Office of Medical Education’s learning environment page on the School of Medicine’s website, where you can report a concern or recognize an exemplar.

Please also familiarize yourself with the learning environment and student mistreatment reporting and response policy.

LCME Element 3.5

A medical school ensures that the learning environment of its medical education program is conducive to the ongoing development of explicit and appropriate professional behaviors in its medical students, faculty, and staff at all locations. The medical school and its clinical affiliates share the responsibility for periodic evaluation of the learning environment in order to identify positive and negative influences on the maintenance of professional standards, develop and conduct appropriate strategies to enhance positive and mitigate negative influences, and identify and promptly correct violations of professional standards.