SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University's College of Medicine in Brooklyn, New York, claims that modern medicine began there 150 years ago and that the College of Medicine hasn't stopped innovating since. SUNY Downstate College of Medicine backs up its bold claim for quality medical education with a commitment to train physicians from the boroughs and other communities they serve. For proof of its program effectiveness, the school advertises that more than half of medical specialists in some local boroughs are SUNY Downstate College of Medicine graduates. SUNY Downstate College of Medicine has opened a door for you not just to medical education but also to rewarding medical practice.
SUNY Downstate College of Medicine's commitments to your education, though, won't entirely protect you from facing serious academic progression and professionalism issues. Indeed, to pursue its commitments, SUNY Downstate College of Medicine must push students hard to meet rigorous academic and professionalism standards. Those standards can become especially hard to meet when life intervenes with illness, injury, and other outside challenges. If you face SUNY Downstate College of Medicine disciplinary charges and dismissal, retain the premier defense services of the Lento Law Firm Education Law Team and national student defense attorney Joseph D. Lento. Your SUNY Downstate College of Medicine education is worth protecting.
SUNY Downstate College of Medicine Dismissal Causes
SUNY Downstate College of Medicine Academic Progression Issues
SUNY Downstate College of Medicine maintains a satisfactory academic progress (SAP) policy that requires students to pass all courses in each medical school year, pass required step exams, and complete the four-year M.D. degree within no more than six years. Failing to meet these SAP standards disqualifies the student from financial aid. Students may appeal their disqualification to a Financial Aid Appeals Committee that grants relief only to students who demonstrate extenuating circumstances and a sound recovery plan. Even if they meet SUNY Downstate College of Medicine's SAP standards, students must also satisfy the school's Academic Promotions Committee. The Committee may dismiss students who fail to meet curriculum benchmarks.
SUNY Downstate College of Medicine Professionalism Issues
SUNY Downstate College of Medicine also requires students to meet its Policy on Professionalism and a separate Honor Code. Both the Honor Code and Professionalism Policy prohibit not only disrespectful, disruptive, incompetent, and endangering behaviors but also academic misconduct like cheating, plagiarism, and research fraud. SUNY Downstate College of Medicine professionalism standards also reaches personal issues like drug or alcohol abuse, poor hygiene, inappropriate dress, confidentiality breaches, and criminal conduct, among other misbehavior. Professionalism complaints, like academic progress issues, go before the College's Academic Promotions Committee. The Committee may dismiss students who fail to meet professionalism requirements. Beware of the breadth and subjectivity of professionalism standards.
SUNY Downstate College of Medicine Adjudication Process
SUNY Downstate College of Medicine's Policy on Professionalism and Honor Code refers disciplinary complaints to the College's Academic Promotions Committee. The Committee may act on its own investigation while inviting the accused student to a regular meeting. College of Medicine procedures do not further detail the Committee's responsibilities. But SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University's Student Handbook supplements those College of Medicine disciplinary procedures with requirements for fair notice of the disciplinary charges and a fair opportunity for the accused student to present evidence and arguments to the Committee. The university follows similar procedures before other hearing bodies, depending on the nature of the charges. And another College of Medicine policy guarantees students due process rights before the Academic Promotions Committee.
SUNY Downstate College of Medicine Appeal Process
SUNY Downstate College of Medicine maintains an Appeals Process providing dismissed or otherwise aggrieved medical students with a second chance for reinstatement in good standing under protective procedures. Students may appeal an Academic Promotions Committee dismissal or other sanction to a Student Appeals Committee. Students ordinarily have just two days to initiate the appeal. The Student Appeals Committee reviews the record but may also consider additional information the accused student presents at an appeal meeting. Students who suffer dismissal or other serious sanctions after a Student Appeals Committee review may take a second appeal to the dean of the College of Medicine.
SUNY Downstate College of Medicine Sanctions
Dismissal is not the only sanction that the above SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University and College of Medicine policies and procedures authorize for medical students who fail to meet program standards. Your retained student defense attorney may be able to help you negotiate remedial relief to disciplinary charges rather than punitive or disciplinary sanctions. Remedial relief may involve counseling, tutoring, extra training or education, altered or reduced schedules, and other remediation plans. Discipline short of dismissals, such as probation, restitution, school service, or loss of privileges, may be another alternative. But remedial relief protects your school record.
SUNY Downstate College of Medicine Defense Services
Medical school appeals, administrative hearings, and other academic procedures require skilled and experienced representation for the best possible outcome. Self-representation is generally unwise in part because of the high stakes in losing your SUNY Downstate College of Medicine education and in part because you are not objective in your own representation. Medical students also generally lack academic administrative advocacy skills. Protect your SUNY Downstate College of Medicine education and medical practice ambition by retaining the best available student defense representation.
SUNY Downstate College of Medicine Special Relief
The Lento Law Firm's Education Law Team and national student defense attorney Joseph D. Lento have negotiated reinstatement for some students even after final dismissal through all school formal procedures. Medical schools and other schools rely on offices of general counsel, outside retained counsel, and other oversight officials to address their litigation and regulatory risks. Diplomatic negotiations with those officials may be your last and best option.
SUNY Downstate College of Medicine Defense Services
The Lento Law Firm Education Law Team and national student defense attorney Joseph D. Lento are available in Brooklyn, New York, for your SUNY Downstate College of Medicine dismissal defense. They have successfully defended hundreds of students nationwide against school dismissal. Call 888.535.3686 or go online now for premier medical student defense attorney services.
