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I am hereby going to blame my lack of ability to stay on my diet on W. Heck, it can't be my fault, can it?

Damn it! I just spent $2 on Powerball tickets, and I didn't win! Damn! Must be Bush's fault! No doubt he's controlling the drawing by mental telepathy, so his and Cheney's cronies in the "awl" industry will win. Damn it!

What do they call the person who graduated last in his/her dentistry school class? - Doctor.

chsw

chsw,

True, but lame. Heard that one a million times...

Van, effing leftard moonbattery to the extreme.

Gun Shy

Via Say Anything

Excuse me, but I've got to go get my work-study to give me a blow job...after all, with a former president who did the same with his intern I think the general public gets the idea that anything that gets you off is what's right

Go here:
http://dentistry.uic.edu/research/faculty_research.htm

then scroll down and find this moonbat's pic. Also, read her areas of interest.

Dr. Anne Koerber - needs to abide by the Ethical Mission of the Faculty of the College of Dentistry of UIC. She broke at least three of these codes.

(Shut up and TEACH).

Adopted by Faculty 5/13/05 1
THE ETHICAL MISSION OF THE
FACULTY OF THE COLLEGE OF DENTISTRY
Preamble1
We at the University of Illinois at Chicago College of Dentistry call upon students, faculty, administration, and staff to strive always to adhere to these ethical standards, the primary goals of which are the benefit of the patient and education of the student. Our entire oral health care community commits to possessing not only appropriate knowledge, skill, and competence, but also those traits of character that foster adherence to all ethical principles. Qualities of compassion, kindness, integrity, fairness, respect, and service are fundamental to the ethical practice of oral health care and essential in defining true professionalism. We, as members of the College community, strive to behave ethically on behalf of patients, students, staff, colleagues, our professions, the College, the University, and the larger community.
Core Values2
In the spirit of affirming our mission statement and with the wish to provide an environment for individual growth founded on mutual respect and professionalism, we embrace the following core values. These ideals act together with our respective professional ethical codes to form the foundation for our ethical beliefs. We affirm and embrace these core values in words, deeds, and intentions.
Autonomy (Respect individual rights and academic freedom of others)
Autonomy is the personal and professional responsibility and right to individual and academic freedom. We strive to respect colleagues’ rights to engage in creative endeavors and to exercise freedom of speech, thought, and beliefs. We recognize that respect for the autonomy of others must be balanced with the exercise of one’s own autonomy as well as the responsibility to conform to University, College, professional, and ethical standards. As leadership, we respect the autonomy, rights and contributions of those for whom we are responsible, recognizing that these must be balanced with the responsibilities associated with our office and our responsibility for the decision-making associated with our office.
Beneficence (Maximize benefits and minimize harms)
1 Adapted from the American Dental Association (2004) Principles of Ethics and Code of Professional Conduct. www.ada.org.
2 Adapted from the American College of Dentists (2004) Ethics Handbook For Dentists, Gaithersburg, MD: American College of Dentists. http://www.facd.org/acdethics.htm#EthicsHandbook.
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Education, service, leadership, and scholarship should be for the benefit of students, patients, staff, colleagues, college, university, community, and profession. As professionals, we should strive to maximize benefits to these groups and minimize harms.
Compassion (Commitment to caring, kindness, and empathy)
As professionals, we strive to be caring, kind, and empathetic. We should identify and understand the needs for the overall well-being of our students, patients, staff, colleagues, college, university, community, and profession. We have a responsibility to serve as both mentor and model for the behavior of others and to promote a positive environment of learning, working, and self-assessment for growth.
Competence (Commitment to recognize, operate within, and improve one’s abilities)
Competence requires a commitment to lifelong learning. As professionals, we seek to stay current with both the scientific literature and advances in our areas of expertise as well as pedagogical and leadership advances. We should recognize our limitations and, while functioning within those boundaries, also recognize them as opportunities for growth and for promoting the highest standards in teaching, research, leadership, patient care, and community service.
Integrity (Behave with honor and decency)
As professionals, we should strive toward integrity by behaving with honor and decency. We strive to uphold the UIC Faculty Code of Ethics, the Policy and Procedures on Academic Integrity in Research and Publication, this statement of the Ethical Mission of the Faculty, as well as our respective professional codes. We seek always to recognize and avoid potential and actual conflicts, and to engage in resolutions that promote the highest personal, academic, leadership, and professional standards.
Justice (Exhibit fairness and equitable distribution of benefits and burdens)
As professionals, we seek fairness in teaching students, treating patients, providing service, engaging in scholarship, and interacting with colleagues and staff. We seek fairness and equity in the distribution of both the benefits and burdens associated with teaching and leading. We are aware of the complexities of teaching, supervising, and interacting with colleagues, students, staff, patients, and the community, and we work for a just balance of benefits and burdens for the members of the College, University, and community.
Professionalism (Self-govern and function in the best interest of others)
As professionals, we teach, lead, and provide service in the best interest of students, staff, colleagues, patients, college, university, and society; and we work together and collaboratively for their best interests. Professionalism includes self-governance and the concomitant rights and responsibilities that self-governance mandates. We work for the support and promotion of the College, University, and profession. We promote health for all within the College, University, and community.
Tolerance (Exhibit sensitivity to diversity and its impact)
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As professionals, we appreciate and accept diversity of beliefs, values, and ideas in students, staff, colleagues, and the public. We respect how those differences affect learning, teaching, scholarship, leadership, and the rendering of service and patient care, and we respect the differences necessary in a diverse community for the effective provision of care, education, scholarship, leadership, and service.
Veracity (Exhibit honesty and truthfulness)
As professionals, we are honest and truthful in all that we do. Trust is the bedrock of the relationship between students, staff, faculty, leaders, patients, and all others. Trust occurs only in an environment of respect, open communication, and integrity, which comes from the valuing of others as highly as we should be able to value ourselves, and would like to be valued by others.
Aspirations3
Building on the previous descriptions of our core values, the following describe how we aspire to implement those values. We believe that by striving to meet these aspirations we will contribute to the well-being of ourselves, our students, our patients, our college, our community, and to our respective professions. Each of us as a professional agrees to the following aspirations.
1. As dental professionals and dental educators at the University of Illinois—Chicago College of Dentistry, we aspire to be outstanding role models of our professions for students, staff, patients, each other, and our communities at large.
• We are aware of and model in our conduct the ethical principles of autonomy, beneficence, compassion, competence, integrity, justice, professionalism, tolerance, and veracity.
• We honor the implied contract of the profession with society to work for the public good, and we communicate and model that responsibility for students and colleagues.
• We foster access to quality oral health care for all people, sound public health and primary prevention measures, and conditions that support free inquiry into causes, preventions, and treatments of oral and craniofacial conditions.
• We engage in collaboration with the community at large in addressing oral health needs and in doing community-based research.
• We, in addition to the above, observe the ethical codes of conduct of our academic institutions and our respective professions
2. In our direct patient care activities or in the supervision of students caring for patients:
3 Adapted from the American Dental Education Association, Resolution 8H-2005, in press.
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• We promote the well being of our patients when providing treatment.
• We do not discriminate against patients.
• We treat persons with infectious diseases according to evidence-based infection protocols.
• We understand and help meet the needs of patients from diverse backgrounds.
• We protect confidentiality of patient records and communications.
• We do not compromise the good of patients for the educational or research needs of the institution.
• We supervise students appropriately as required by law and dictated by professional judgment.
• We work within the limits of our professional competence and seek consultation or referral when care of patients would thereby be improved.
• We involve the patient in making well informed choices about his/her oral health treatment needs.
• We are sensitive to and report suspected abuse and neglect when observed in patients, in accordance with the law.
• We assist access to emergency care for patients.
• We work with the entire health care team for the benefit of patients.
• We accept that in order to respect the formation of good provider-patient relationships, we recognize that we should not proactively recruit the institution’s active treatment patient population into our private practices.
• We provide objective and fair assessments of previous treatments provided to patients, without disparaging comments.
3. Dental faculty are prepared educationally and possess the knowledge, skills and experience required for our respective disciplines.
• We strive to stay current with relevant new knowledge, and continually develop and improve our scholarly and skills-based competence.
• We seek to advance as well as to communicate knowledge in our discipline.
• We are intellectually honest with ourselves, and we practice self evaluation and strive to improve our teaching, research, and service activities.
• We contribute to and encourage colleagues and students to contribute to the missions and leadership of professional organizations.
• We may provide testimony in an objective fashion within our spheres of knowledge and experience.
4. As educators, we aspire to be valued mentors and role models for students.
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• We foster a positive and respectful working environment for students, staff, and other faculty.
• We are respectful of students’ time and their need for supervision and education.
• We strive to know and practice teaching methods that are consistent with accepted pedagogical principles.
• We make our expectations of students clear, and communicate when those expectations are changed.
• We recognize the personal and professional harm of cheating and dishonesty and therefore, do not tolerate cheating and dishonesty in any form. We abide by institutional policy and due process for managing infractions.
• We provide consistent, criteria-based, constructive, and honest evaluations of student performance. In addition, we recognize areas of competence and guide improvements where indicated. We do this regardless of prior history with that student.
• We encourage free pursuit of learning, with sensitivity to varying points of view.
• We maintain confidentiality of a student’s disclosures, unless in our objective professional judgment it is deemed necessary to report them to the appropriate authority or committee.
• We treat students with respect and as future colleagues. We do not harass, exploit, or illegally discriminate against students.
• We avoid personal relationships with students that might result in either the appearance or the fact of improper influence on professional judgments.
• We make reasonable efforts to protect students from harmful conditions.
• We communicate and model the scholarly and ethical standards of our professions, including their explicit codes of ethics and conduct.
5. As members of communities of scholars, dental faculty members have responsibilities to our institutions, other faculty and colleagues.
• We accurately represent our education, training and professional accomplishments.
• We respect and defend colleagues’ rights of free inquiry.
• We are objective in our professional judgments in evaluations of colleagues and the work of colleagues.
• We do not harass or intimidate colleagues.
• We respect and promote diversity and its contributions to the institution.
• We support open, respectful discussion of differences with faculty and non-faculty colleagues, staff, and students.
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• We encourage teaching of various evidence-based and experience-based approaches while acknowledging the need to be in conformance with didactic and clinical standards.
6. We avoid conflicts of interest and the appearance of conflicts of interest in our teaching, research, and practice activities. We recognize the need to stay current with and comply with all laws and University and professional mandates regarding conflict of interest. 4
• We accept personal gifts of only nominal value from students, research sponsors, dental or scientific suppliers, or anyone or any entity that might benefit from decisions we make.
• We accept consultant fees or honoraria from sponsors of research that we conduct only if there is a very clear and marked separation of content between the sponsored research and the consultant activities.
• We disclose any actual or perceived relationship, financial or otherwise, we have with a sponsor when mentioning sponsor(s) or competitor(s) products while teaching, including in continuing education programs, or when advocating institutional purchases.
• We acknowledge all financial or other material support for work described in publication or presentation.
• We carefully separate our personal business activities from institutional business and obligations, avoiding both conflicts of interest and conflicts of commitment.
7. In the conduct of research:
• We follow all appropriate institutional policies in application for and administration of research funds.
• We faithfully adhere to conditions under which a grant or contract is awarded for the conduct of research.
• We use appropriate methods in pursuit of research, and follow acceptable scientific standards.
• We adhere to Institutional Review Board policies for use of human subjects in research, obtaining and documenting informed consent, and otherwise protecting human subjects, including discontinuance of trials when it becomes apparent that subjects are being harmed or that one test group is experiencing clear therapeutic advantage.
• We use animals responsibly, only when necessary, and in conformance with guidelines of the Association for Assessment and Accreditation of Laboratory Animal Care International.
4 General Provisions (5 Ilcs 430/) State Officials And Employees Ethics Act. (5 Ilcs 430/Art. 10 Heading) Article 10 Gift Ban (Source: P.A. 93-617, Eff. 12-9-03.)
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• We share new knowledge and useful materials generated, protecting only legitimate rights within institutional policy for copyright, patent and licensing arrangements, trade secrets, and any related contractual obligations to sponsors.
8. We are aware of our institution’s policies and abide by them, while retaining the right to advocate for their change.
• We honor our responsibility to UIC when conducting work outside of the University.
• We strive to minimize the negative effects on our institution, other faculty, staff, and students if we are absent or separate from the institution.
• We avoid giving the impression of speaking for the institution when speaking privately or giving personal opinion.
• We encourage participation in the affairs of the university outside our own departments, schools, and community at large.
• We respectfully and wisely use the resources made available to us by our institutions, understanding that these resources were obtained through taxpayer and donor funds.
• We disclose to employers any impairment that restricts our abilities to carry out responsibilities.
9. We adhere to University and professional mandates, and civil codes and laws.
With these statements of values and aspirations, our purpose is to promote the highest standards of professionalism and thereby contribute to the well-being of our students, our patients, our colleagues, our staff, our college, our university, our community, our respective professions, and ourselves.