Student Advocacy

We are committed to promoting and supporting a safe, welcoming and professional environment for students in the School of Medicine and associated educational and clinical settings. If you feel you have experienced mistreatment or unprofessional behavior, there are a variety of ways to file a report.

Mistreatment may involve sexism, racism, harassment, discrimination, verbal abuse, or any other types of unprofessional behavior. Medical students can make anonymous, in-person, or phone reports of mistreatment or unprofessional behavior.

Resources Available to Medical Students

Contained below is information covering the following avenues of reporting: Student Listening Post; Oasis course, clerkship, elective and faculty evaluations; Office of Educational Affairs; Just Report It (JRI); and University Ombuds. If you believe you have experienced sexism, racism, harassment, discrimination, verbal abuse, or any other types of unprofessional behavior, please report it.

Student Listening Post

Medical students can make reports to the Office of Educational Affairs through the Student Listening Post available on VMED. Students can choose whether or not to include their name on the report.

Student Listening Post.

Oasis course, clerkship, elective and faculty evaluations

Reports of mistreatment and/or unprofessionalism can be submitted through Oasis course, clerkship, elective, or faculty evaluations. Reports filed through Oasis are received in real-time by the Office of Educational Affairs if the questions regarding student mistreatment or unprofessionalism are answered affirmatively.

These reports do not contain the name of the student completing the evaluation.

Oasis

Office of Educational Affairs

Medical students can report mistreatment or unacceptable behaviors in person, by phone or email to:

Lesley Thomas
Assistant Dean for Compliance and Accreditation
Office of Educational Affairs
(434) 924-1864

Email Office

Dean on Call

The SOM Office of Student Affairs provides 24-hour crisis management and incident response services to medical students. In case of an emergency, contact the Dean on Call.

Dean on Call

Just Report It (JRI)

Students may report an incident of bias/discrimination/harassment, hazing, sexual assault, sexual exploitation, intimate partner violence, stalking, sexual or gender-based harassment, complicity, or retaliation using Just Report It, the University's online incident reporting system.

Just Report It.

University Ombuds

The UVA Health Ombuds, Henry Yampolsky, acts as a trusted navigator for current faculty, staff, and students seeking confidential guidance, information, insight, and potential options to overcome an existing conflict or concern. Virtual, phone, and in-person ombuds consultations can be conveniently scheduled online.

Email University Ombuds

Flow Chart describing the process for reporting mistreatment at UVA School of Medicine.

Student Advocacy

MD Program

We are committed to promoting and supporting a safe, welcoming and professional environment for students in the School of Medicine and associated educational and clinical settings. If you feel you have experienced mistreatment or unprofessional behavior, there are a variety of ways to file a report.

Mistreatment may involve sexism, racism, harassment, discrimination, verbal abuse, or any other types of unprofessional behavior. Medical students can make anonymous, in-person, or phone reports of mistreatment or unprofessional behavior.

Resources Available to Medical Students

Student Listening Post

Oasis course, clerkship, elective and faculty evaluations

Office of Educational Affairs

Dean on Call

Just Report It (JRI)

University Ombuds

Procedure Available to Medical Students for Filing Reports of Mistreatment and/or Unprofessionalism

Student Mistreatment and Other Unacceptable Behaviors (SOM)

Discrimination and Harassment: Preventing and Addressing (UVA)

Harassment: Sexual and Gender-Based and other forms of Interpersonal Violence (UVA)

Preventing and Addressing Retaliation (UVA)

Title IX and Sexual Misconduct