Undergraduate Affairs (UGA) is a resource for you. We are here to promote professionalism and professional behaviours and provide support and resources when trying to address unprofessional behaviours.
Overview
To support a just culture of professionalism, it is important that a system for shared accountability through the reporting of both professionalism accolades and concerns exists. Professionalism reporting is vital to:
- Foster a culture of continuous learning;
- Impact future behavioural choices;
- Share in the responsibility of maintaining safe practices;
- Ensure we meet our fiduciary responsibility to provide exceptional patient care;
- And identify patterns of behaviour that require remediation.
It is important to recognize that professionalism achievements and concerns can occur anywhere. UGA has created web forms to be able to capture professionalism across the various environments that make up our School community (both in and out of the classroom) so that we can celebrate achievements and learn from lapses.
Report Processing
We encourage all PharmD students to report professionalism achievements and concerns they witness, no matter the setting.
Give Kudos:
If you experience or witness exceptional professional behaviours from any any PharmD student, you can submit an accolade. It is always nice to receive positive feedback and to be appreciated. This is how we build a healthy community of practice.
Professionalism achievements reported will receive acknowledgement from UGA within 7-10 working days of the submission as well as be tracked for future celebration, learning, and mentorship support.
Raise a professionalism concern:
If you experience or witness unprofessional behaviour from a PharmD student, please fill out and submit your concern through the online reporting system.
- We will require a name and email address of the reporting party. As with the Ontario College of Pharmacists (OCP) reporting procedures, submissions cannot be made anonymously. Any submission without accurate and identifiable contact information will not be considered. Remember, professionalism is built on shared accountability.
- Reports will be downloaded and reviewed by the UGA once a week and we will contact you within 7-10 working days to discuss your concern and implement next steps.
PharmD students can expect that:
- Professionalism lapses reported will require follow-up with UGA as well as the possibility of supplemental remediation requirements (see Mentorship and Advising on Professionalism).
The PharmD student reports will be collected, tracked, and reviewed by the School’s Professionalism sub-committee for ongoing continual learning and discussion.
- Any reports presented to the professionalism sub-committee or School community will be anonymized.
- The Professionalism sub-committee will regularly provide updates to the School community on both successes and lessons learned in this space.
- All reports will be filed with appropriate record keeping and confidentiality practices.