LECOM School of Dental Medicine in Bradenton, Florida, is part of the Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine professional schools. Those schools commit to providing quality professional education at affordable costs. LECOM School of Dental Medicine focuses its program on clinical skills to graduate competent and compassionate dentists. The dental college forms clinical practice groups to provide on-campus care for dental patients from the Bradenton, Florida, community. Senior-year outreach groups offer further hands-on clinical training at other sites around Florida and the country.
Be proud of your LECOM School of Dental Medicine admission and education. But also protect your dental education against dismissal. Dental students don't have it easy. Learning the refined skills of a competent dentist takes meeting both academic and clinical challenges. For some dental students, it also means persevering through illness, injury, loss of a loved one, and other difficult circumstances. Those circumstances can contribute to incomplete coursework, poor grades, professionalism questions, and other dental student issues. Get the skilled and experienced student defense representation you need if LECOM School of Dental Medicine officials threaten you with dental school dismissal. The Lento Law Firm Education Law Team and Student Defense Attorney Advisor Joseph D. Lento are available in Bradenton, Florida, to help you preserve your LECOM dental education.
Common Reasons for LECOM Dental School Dismissal
Poor grades, incomplete courses, course withdrawals, and other academic issues are common dismissal challenges for LECOM School of Dental Medicine students, as they are for dental students elsewhere. The Academic Catalog for the LECOM School of Dental Medicine states the dental school's minimum grade and course completion requirements. LECOM students must pass all courses and rotations with at least a 75% score (C grade) for satisfactory academic progress. Students must also complete the entire four-year program within no more than six years. Students failing to meet satisfactory academic progress face potential dismissal.
LECOM School of Dental Medicine's Academic Catalog also includes a Code of Student Conduct and Discipline. LECOM's Code of Student Conduct includes a long list of academic misconduct like cheating, plagiarizing, and unauthorized collaboration. The Code of Student Conduct also includes a long list of non-academic misconduct like theft, property damage, forgery, misuse of keys or computers, and criminal convictions. The Code of Student Conduct also includes a list of unprofessional behaviors like missed patient appointments, practice while intoxicated, use of profane or threatening language, and disruption of services. LECOM's Code of Student Conduct warns that misconduct, including not meeting dental professionalism standards, can result in dismissal.
LECOM School of Dental Medicine's Sanctions
Just because the dental school charges you with misconduct and threatens you with dismissal doesn't mean that dismissal will be your outcome. Dismissal is not LECOM's only potential sanction for dental student issues. You and your retained student defense attorney advisor may be able to negotiate the dental school's dismissal of all charges so that you face no sanction. Or, under LECOM's Academic Catalog, you may face a lesser sanction such as an admonition, probation, disqualification from student offices, restitution, or repeated coursework or extra assignments.
LECOM School of Dental Medicine's Adjudication Process
You also have the right to contest dental school charges. LECOM School of Dental Medicine's Academic Catalog provides for the Office of Student Affairs to handle student complaints. The school's dean or the dean's designee investigates student complaints. The dean or designee then recommends any sanction to the accused student, who may accept or reject the recommendation. If the student rejects the proposed sanction, the Student Progress & Graduation Committee will hear the charges, including the student's defense, after the student meets with the dean. The school and student present and question witnesses at the hearing, after which the committee decides on any sanction within five days after the hearing.
LECOM School of Dental Medicine's Appeal Process
An appeal to a higher decision maker is a common procedural right. LECOM School of Dental Medicine's Academic Catalog provides for an appeal right. If you disagree with the Student Progress & Graduation Committee's decision to dismiss or impose another sanction, you may appeal to the school's dean within three days of the decision. The dean considers the written record but may also call additional witnesses. If you disagree with the dean's decision, you may appeal again to LECOM's president within seven days.
LECOM School of Dental Medicine Defense Attorney Services
LECOM School of Dental Medicine academic progress, professionalism, or other misconduct charges place your dental education and career at risk. Because you have everything on the line, you should put forward your best possible defense. To do so, you need skilled and experienced student defense attorney advisor services. Dental school appeals and other formal and informal procedures can be daunting and complex. Dental students generally lack the skills for effective academic administrative representation.
Your retained attorney advisor may be able to negotiate early voluntary dismissal of the charges. If the school insists on proceeding, then your retained attorney advisor will represent you at a hearing or on appeal. But do not give in to dismissal even if you have lost all hearings and appeals. Student defense attorney advisor Joseph D. Lento and the Lento Law Firm Team have a national reputation and relationships with offices of general counsel, outside retained counsel, and other oversight officials to, in some cases, negotiate alternative special relief. Your retained attorney may also help you evaluate and pursue outside administrative agencies or court relief.
Defense for LECOM School of Dental Medicine Issues
The Lento Law Firm's premier Education Law Team and national student defense attorney advisor Joseph D. Lento have helped hundreds of students nationwide avoid college or university dismissal. Get the skills and experience you need for your best possible outcome to LECOM School of Dental Medicine issues in Bradenton, Florida, threatening your dismissal. Call 888.535.3686 or go online now.
