Codes of ethics, behaviour and practice

Faculty-specific codes

Ethics and code of practice for pharmacy students involved in clinical placements

Throughout those courses in the Victorian College of Pharmacy which involve clinical placements, such as the Bachelor of Pharmacy, students gain clinical experience that will complement their academic studies. These experiences will include rosters to major metropolitan teaching hospitals, other public and private metropolitan hospitals, community pharmacies and rural placements in Victoria. While you are expected to be appropriately supervised at all times when you are in the clinical setting, your conduct with patients must conform to professional expectations.

For details of these ethics and code of practice visit http://www.vcp.monash.edu.au/students/undergrad/ethicsandcodeofpractice.html

Code of ethics for information technology students

The computing profession, like others, conforms to a strict code of ethics that covers such matters as the improper and illegal use of computers and the use of powers that members of the profession have in respect of access to information belonging to others. Because it is possible for the uninformed to breach the code of ethics or the law as it relates to computers, software and copyright, you are strongly advised to become acquainted with the regulations and the code of ethics published by the Australian Computer Society (visit http://www.acs.org.au).

Disciplinary action will be taken against students detected interfering with the operation of the University's computer equipment, interfering with the computer programs and data belonging to others, using unlicensed programs or breaching copyright by copying software that they do not own or do not have a licence to use. It is the University's policy to refer evidence of criminal activity associated with the use of computers to the police, ie `hacking' may well lead to prosecution as opposed to disciplinary action by the University.

Copies of the regulations and the code of ethics of the Australian Computer Society are available free of charge from the Faculty of Information Technology.