Code of Conduct

  • Clearly identify yourself and your professional level to patients and staff; wear your ID's in the hospital premises.
  • Students rotating in any of the hospitals (BDF - Military Hospital, KHUH and SMC) are responsible to be aware of the security requirements and adhere to the security guidelines set by the hospitals.
  • Dress in a neat, clean, professionally appropriate manner. All students should attend in a dress code befitting medical students.
  • Maintain a professional composure despite the stresses of fatigue, professional pressure, or personal problems.
  • All students should conduct themselves in an exemplary manner that should be a model for other medical schools and uphold the reputation of our medical institute.
  • The students shall attend their sessions at the hospital and the college regularly and punctually. Any absence from the session will be dealt with strictly and may result in reducing the continuous assessment grade or prevention from sitting the End of Rotation Examination.

Student Guidelines

  1. Meet with the tutor on the first day of the rotation and agree on a plan of action.
  2. You are expected to arrive 7:30 a.m. to the hospital and to leave at 12:00 noon. Register your attendance with the Departmental Secretary every morning.
  3. Attend all educational and clinical activities conducted in the hospital and document your participation on the attendance sheets with tutor signature.
  4. Clerk patients in the area assigned to you. Each student is expected to present at least three (3) cases per week and discuss the relevant topics.
  5. Take night, weekend and holiday duties by rotation and as per schedule produced by the Clinical Tutor. A minimum of 2 calls per week including weekends and holidays. (i.e. 16 calls during the rotation).
  6. Attend all teaching activities with the tutor and rounds with residents during the on call duties.
  7. Register all the activites attended, case history write-ups and skills acquired in the Log Book and make sure that these are verified and signed by the tutor.
  8. All students are required to attend the Core Curriculum seesions held in the afternoons  between 13:00 - 15:00 hours.
  9. Each student is required to submit the Log Book and potfolio in the last week of the rotation. The portfolio includes 5 cases clerked by the student and reviewed by the tutor (one of these cases should be from the Neonatal Rotation).
  10. End of clerkship examination is conducted during the last week of the rotation.
  11. During the end of rotation clinical exam the department distribute the students to hospitals and assign them to examiners fairly and randomly.  The students have no right to ask to be examined in a particular hospital or by a specific examiner.