Midwestern University's College of Dental Medicine in Downers Grove, Illinois, proudly claims a commitment to excellence in both education and patient care. CDMI offers a campus rich in educational technology where faculty members promote a patient-centered approach. CDMI also claims a very high graduation rate for its doctor of medicine in dentistry (D.M.D.) program, one that helps it maintain its Commission on Dental Accreditation approval. You have every reason to trust the quality of your CDMI dental education.
But you also face the challenges that every dental student faces. Those challenges include more than acquiring a vast medical knowledge base and meeting the technical demands of clinical dentistry practice. You must do more than make satisfactory academic progress. You must also demonstrate the professionalism Midwestern University's College of Dental Medicine in Illinois expects and requires while avoiding other behavioral misconduct and dental student issues. If CDMI officials allege that you are not meeting their standards, retain the Lento Law Firm Education Law Team and Student Defense Attorney Advisor Joseph D. Lento to help you defend against your dental school dismissal. Get the skills and experience you need to protect and preserve your CDMI dental education.
Common Reasons for College of Dental Medicine Dismissal
You wouldn't think that dental students face common reasons for dismissal, given how academically well-prepared they must be for dental school admission. But illness, injury, and other extenuating circumstances can lead to poor grades, missed clinical work, and other academic progression issues. Like other federally backed programs, Midwestern University's Illinois program maintains a satisfactory academic progress policy that students must generally meet or suffer dismissal unless excused for extenuating circumstances. Dental students can need help proving their extenuating circumstances through the university's Appeal Process to overcome their academic challenges.
Midwestern University's Illinois program also maintains a Professional Conduct policy, further detailed in a Code of Responsibilities and Rights, requiring that dental students meet the legal, moral, and other professionalism standards expected of dentists. Those standards include things like treating supervisors, colleagues, and patients with respect while meeting assigned clinical obligations and practicing within dental standards. Midwestern University's Student Handbook sets forth other conduct codes addressing drug and alcohol abuse, hazing, sexual or other harassment, and other misbehavior, sanctions for which could include dismissal. Dental students, although generally accomplished and disciplined, are not immune from these issues that could lead to dismissal.
Midwestern University's Adjudication Process
Midwestern University's Illinois program maintains Student Complaints/ Grievances Procedures addressing professionalism and other conduct concerns. The policy, applying to CDMI students as to other students at the university, provides first for an informal resolution process. CDMI's dean would informally attempt to resolve the issue, with help, if necessary, from the university's dean of students. That resolution could include proposals that you voluntarily withdraw. Do not agree to withdrawal without first consulting your own retained attorney advisor. Your withdrawal for disciplinary or academic reasons could prevent your transfer or admission to other dental programs.
Midwestern University's Student Complaints/Grievances Procedures also set forth the formal complaint process applicable to CDMI students. CDMI students may invoke those procedures if they do not wish to agree to an informal resolution, especially any resolution that would entail admission to misconduct and suspension or dismissal. The university's dean of students undertakes an investigation, interviewing the accused student and other witnesses. The dean of students then recommends the formal resolution to the dental college dean, who notifies the student of the outcome.
Midwestern University's Appeal Process
Midwestern University's Student Complaints/Grievances Procedures offer an appeal process for CDMI students facing dismissal. The student must appeal the dental college dean's dismissal decision to the university's president. The president reviews the entire record before deciding on the appeal. Your defense case must be in that record, or the university president won't have the basis to grant your appeal. The university's Student Complaints/Grievances Procedures provide that any further appeal beyond the university president must go to the Illinois Board of Higher Education, Academic Affairs Division. Dismissal, though, is not the only potential sanction. The dental college dean or president may impose lesser sanctions, from a reprimand to remedial training or education, loss of credit, repeated coursework or assignments, loss of privileges, and suspension.
Student Defense Attorney Advisor Services
Dismissal from the Midwestern University's College of Dental Medicine in Illinois is a daunting proposal, one that places at risk everything for which you have worked toward your dental career. You should not be facing that risk alone. You should instead retain the skilled and experienced attorney advisor representation you need for effective defense, including dental school appeals. Your retained attorney advisor can do any or all of the following for your best outcome to dental school dismissal charges:
- help you evaluate the dental school's complaint, concerns, charges, and evidence to adopt a strategic defense approach;
- promptly communicate with dental school officials, exploring and negotiating early voluntary resolution if possible;
- answer the complaint and charges with appropriate denials, defenses, and exonerating and mitigating evidence;
- attend meetings, conferences, interviews, and hearings as school officials permit to help you present your defense case;
- research, draft, submit, and argue appeals within the university; and
- evaluate and pursue administrative and court relief outside the university as necessary and appropriate.
Do not give up even if you have already pursued and lost all hearings and appeals that you can identify within Midwestern University. Colleges and universities maintain offices of general counsel, ombuds offices, and similar oversight functions to minimize school regulatory and liability risks. National student defense attorney advisor Joseph D. Lento and the Lento Law Firm Team have the reputation and relationships to gain the attention and confidence of those oversight officials to negotiate alternative special relief in some cases.
Premier Education Law Team for Midwestern University CDMI
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