West Virginia Code of State Rules
Agency 11 - Medicine
Title 11 - LEGISLATIVE RULE WEST VIRGINIA BOARD OF MEDICINE
Series 11-16 - Prohibiting Sexual Misconduct by Health Care Practitioners
Section 11-16-3 - Sexual Misconduct With A Patient

Universal Citation: 11 WV Code of State Rules 11-16-3

Current through Register Vol. XLI, No. 38, September 20, 2024

3.1. Practitioners are prohibited from engaging in sexual misconduct with a patient.

3.2. Sexual misconduct with a patient constitutes dishonorable, unethical, and unprofessional conduct.

3.3. Sexual misconduct with a patient involving sexual contact or sexual interaction constitutes gross misconduct.

3.4. Patient consent, participation in, or initiation of sexual contact, sexual interaction or sexual impropriety with a practitioner may not be used by the practitioner as defense to charges of practitioner sexual misconduct or as mitigation of professional misconduct.

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