Subject: Conflict of Interest Policy for Clinical Assignments                     Policy: 17
Effective Date: 08/09/2010                                                                            Standard Element: 3E, 4J

Purpose: This policy is to ensure that students will not be placed in any clinical facility where a potential conflict of interest may exist.

Policy: Any potential questionable relationships are explored on an individual basis to determine if a conflict of interest exists. Students are asked to disclose this information prior to requesting clinical affiliation sites. Concealing this information will result in the student receiving a failing grade for the clinical affiliation. This policy is meant to protect all interested parties and to provide the student with the best clinical experience possible without undue distraction or bias.

Procedure:
1. The ACCE will identify situations of potential conflicts of interest during PT 290 course, which include but are not limited to:
• Student receiving financial assistance from the facility (tuition assistance or scholarship).
• Student involved in any type of contractual agreement with the facility or parent company (usually for future employment).
• The student is currently employed or has been employed by the facility or any other affiliated local or regional facility in the parent company. This may also include extensive volunteer experience within a facility and will be determined on an individual basis.
• A member of the student’s immediate family has some level of authority over the practice of physical therapy at a site or is an administrative official of the facility. (e.g. father, mother, sister, brother, or spouse, is chief executive financial officer, or primary referral source of practice).
• A member of the student’s immediate or extended family is employed by the facility or parent company.
• A member of the student’s immediate family, close friend, or former colleague is the clinical instructor of SCCE for an educational experience.
• If the student is inadvertently assigned to a site where a conflict of interest exists, the student must disclose it immediately to the ACCE and a new site will be assigned.
• If the student does not disclose this information the student will receive a failing grade for that clinical experience and is subject to all the rules regarding failure of a course.

Reviewed and revised 6/2015, 6/2024

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