Confidentiality of Student Evaluations

Students are expected to submit candid, constructive, professional evaluations of EUSOM courses, faculty, residents, and others when asked to do so. All evaluations are confidential and are blinded to prevent school personnel from knowing the identity of the person submitting an evaluation. It is vital to the evaluation process that students do not fear retribution or recrimination based on their honest perceptions.

Although students must log in to the OASIS system to submit evaluations, OASIS is specifically designed to redact all identifying data from every type of evaluation form submitted. This protects students from real or perceived retribution for the evaluation data that they submit. Evaluation data collected through OASIS are stripped of individual identifiers and stored on secure servers.

In the unlikely event that a student submits information through the evaluation process that could pose a credible threat to the safety of that student or others, a mechanism can be activated to retrieve identifying information about the responsible student. The decision to seek the identification of a student based on information from an evaluation form rests solely with the Executive Associate Dean for Medical Education and Student Affairs, or in their absence, a designee. In such a case, the specific evaluation will be matched to the individual student by the designated staff member who has the authority and ability to do so.

Except for the aforementioned extreme circumstance, no school personnel will have access to the identity of students who submitted an evaluation.