The Associate Medical Director is also expected to maintain appropriate professional boundaries and shall not serve as a student's healthcare provider when functioning in a program leadership or faculty role, except in an emergency. This requirement is intentionally broader than the minimum A3.06 requirement and supports the program's commitment to avoiding conflicts of interest involving individuals who participate in student education, assessment, clinical education, or program governance. 4. Separation of Educational and Healthcare Roles The NLU PA Program recognizes that program leadership and faculty members may maintain clinical practices outside the University. However, when a faculty member, Medical Director, Associate Medical Director, or Program Director encounters an NLU PA student who is also a patient, the individual's healthcare provider role must remain separate from their educational or program role. Faculty and program leadership must not use information obtained through a healthcare relationship to influence: • Academic evaluation; • Clinical evaluation; • Professionalism assessment; • Promotion or progression decisions; • Remediation decisions; • Academic standing; • Graduation decisions; or • Other program-related decisions. Likewise, information obtained through the educational relationship must not be used to provide or influence personal healthcare except when necessary to respond to an emergency. 5. Routine Healthcare Needs Students requiring routine healthcare should obtain care from an appropriately qualified healthcare provider who is independent of the NLU PA Program's educational and evaluative structure. Students may access healthcare through appropriate University resources, community healthcare providers, health systems, primary care providers, behavioral health providers, specialists, urgent care centers, emergency departments, or other qualified healthcare professionals. The Program will not require a student to obtain healthcare from a Program faculty member, Program Director, Medical Director, or Associate Medical Director.
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