title: Faculty perceptions of appropriate faculty behaviors in social interactions with student pharmacists.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To determine faculty and administrator perceptions about appropriate behavior in social interactions between pharmacy students and faculty members.
  
  
  METHODS
  Four private and 2 public colleges and schools of pharmacy conducted focus groups of faculty members and interviews with administrators. Three scenarios describing social interactions between faculty members and students were used. For each scenario, participants reported whether the faculty member's behavior was appropriate and provided reasons for their opinions.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Forty-four percent of those surveyed or interviewed considered interactions between faculty members and pharmacy students at a bar to be a boundary violation. Administrators were more likely than faculty members to consider discussing other faculty members with a student to be a boundary violation (82% vs. 46%, respectively, P <0.009). A majority (87%) of faculty members and administrators considered "friending" students on Facebook a boundary violation.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  There was no clear consensus about whether socializing with students at a bar was a boundary violation. In general, study participants agreed that faculty members should not initiate friendships with current students on social networks but that taking a student employee to lunch was acceptable.
authors.affiliation: University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences College of Pharmacy, Fayetteville, 72703, USA. eschneider@uams.edu
authors.forename: Eric F
authors.initials: EF
authors.lastname: Schneider
authors.forename: Melissa C
authors.initials: MC
authors.lastname: Jones
authors.forename: Karen B
authors.initials: KB
authors.lastname: Farris
authors.forename: Dawn
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Havrda
authors.forename: Kenneth C
authors.initials: KC
authors.lastname: Jackson
authors.forename: Terri S
authors.initials: TS
authors.lastname: Hamrick
mesh_terms: D005178:Faculty; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010465:Perception; D010595:Pharmacists; D013339:Students, Pharmacy