Guidelines for Conduct
The following guidelines apply to all persons affiliated with the MGH Institute of Health Professions. Their intent is to preserve freedom of expression and association and to protect civil, personal, and property rights. Conduct subject to disciplinary action includes but is not limited to:
- Interference with freedom of speech or movement, or intentional disruption of teaching, research, administration, or any other functions at the Institute.
- All forms of dishonesty, including cheating, plagiarism unauthorized copying of software, giving false information to the Institute, forgery, and any alteration or misuse of Institute documents or instruments of identification.
- Any behavior incompatible with the guidelines for professional and ethical conduct as established by each discipline.
- Any action that endangers the health or safety of self or others.
- Any person whose conduct is subject to disciplinary action is entitled to adequate notice of all charges and to a fair due process hearing. The standards and rules of those institutions also govern conduct in affiliated institutions.