Actions Constituting Sexual Misconduct

• engage in sexual behavior for diagnostic or therapeutic reasons?

• touch any body part that has a sexual connotation?

• touch a patient's genitals without the use of gloves?

• have sexual intercourse (genital to genital contact)?

• engage in oral to genital contact?

• engage in oral to anal contact?

• engage in genital to anal contact?

• kiss a patient in a romantic or sexual manner?

• encourage a patient to masturbate in the physician's presence?

• masturbate in the presence of the patient?

• offer drugs or medical services in exchange for sexual favors?

• perform an intimate examination without clinical justification?

• fail to have a chaperone present during an intimate examination?

• perform an intimate examination with anyone else present who is not a chaperone or permitted by the patient?

• ask inappropriate questions about the patient's sexual history or preferences?

• solicit a date or romantic relationship?

• make inappropriate comments about a patient's appearance, sexuality or sexual preferences?

• fail to provide adequate privacy before, during or after an examination?

• initiate a discussion on the physician's own sexual problems, fantasies or preferences?

• engage in any behavior that is sexually demeaning to the patient?

• make any statement, expression or gesture that may be construed as being sexual?