Texas A&M School of Medicine in Bryan, Texas, says that its founders created it to boldly serve. That guiding vision compels its mission to serve those with the greatest need through new ways and places of delivering medicine. Texas A&M School of Medicine also claims its place at the heart of Texas's most comprehensive health science center. In short, Texas A&M School of Medicine endeavors to train its graduates to do more and better with medicine.
Texas A&M School of Medicine's commitment to excellent and innovative medical training necessarily challenges its students to satisfy its academic progression and professionalism standards. Medical school is never easy. Medical school is instead routinely and designedly hard. Illness, injury, and other life stressors can also create or complicate natural medical student issues. Those issues can quickly and easily lead to disciplinary charges and threats of dismissal. If that's your situation at Texas A&M School of Medicine, then you need the premier defense representation of the Lento Law Firm Education Law Team and national student defense attorney Joseph D. Lento. Value and protect your Texas A&M medical education.
Texas A&M School of Medicine Grounds for Dismissal
Texas A&M School of Medicine Academic Progression Issues
Texas A&M maintains a satisfactory academic progress (SAP) policy that requires medical students to meet certain benchmarks for financial aid. Medical students must maintain a 3.00 cumulative grade point average, complete at least two-thirds of the credits they attempt, and finish the four-year medical degree within no more than six years. A medical student may appeal SAP financial aid suspension if able to provide the required explanation and documentation. Texas A&M School of Medicine also authorizes its Student Promotions Committee to withhold advancement and impose dismissal, depending on whether students meet other academic benchmarks.
Texas A&M School of Medicine Professionalism Issues
Texas A&M School of Medicine also imposes professional and personal behavior requirements on students beyond its strict academic measures. Texas A&M School of Medicine's Student Handbook includes a Student Code of Conduct, Honor Code, and professionalism standards. Together, those codes and standards expose medical students to disciplinary charges and dismissal for an extraordinarily wide range of behaviors. Violence, threats, theft, trespass, drug and weapons violations, and other criminal misconduct can lead to dismissal under those codes and standards. But so, too, can patient disrespect, supervisor insubordination, incompetent clinical care, and even poor professional dress, hygiene, or demeanor. And the Honor Code threatens dismissal for exam cheating, unauthorized collaboration, research fraud, and other academic misconduct. Beware of the dismissal risks that these codes and their high expectations and vague standards create. Medical students suffer professional and personal misconduct dismissal.
Texas A&M School of Medicine Adjudication Process
Texas A&M School of Medicine's Student Handbook expressly warns that the medical school's Student Promotions Committee “may dismiss a medical student who demonstrates academic deficiency or personal irresponsibility or unprofessional behavior.” The Student Promotions Committee acts on its own investigation and information, typically at a regular meeting to which it invites the accused student. But the Student Handbook does not detail protective procedures that the Student Promotions Committee must follow to ensure a fair hearing. Students whom the Committee dismisses must instead follow the Handbook's appeal procedures for protective procedures.
Texas A&M School of Medicine Appeal Process
Texas A&M School of Medicine's Student Handbook requires a dismissed student or student seeking to challenge some other Student Promotions Committee sanction to appeal within ten days to the Medicine Executive Associate Dean. The dean designates an Ad Hoc Faculty Committee to hear the student's appeal. The Committee must permit the student to present defense evidence and arguments and may hear other witnesses. The Committee forwards its recommendation to the School of Medicine's dean, who may adopt, reject, or modify the recommendation. A student aggrieved by the dean's decision may take a second appeal before a university First Professional Appeals Panel, the decision of which is final.
Texas A&M School of Medicine Sanctions
Texas A&M School of Medicine expressly authorizes its Student Promotions Committee not just to dismiss students but alternatively to impose other sanctions short of dismissal. Those alternatives include probation, conditional advancement depending on satisfactory completion of specified academic work, counseling, fitness for duty evaluation, and repeating a course, component, sequence of courses, or school year. The Student Promotions Committee may fashion other sanctions or remediation it deems appropriate. Prefer remediation over discipline to keep your record clean and options open.
Texas A&M School of Medicine Student Defense Services
Medical students, though clearly intelligent and mature and generally also wise, do not, on the other hand, generally possess the academic administrative skills for effective self-representation. Even if you do possess advocacy skills, representing yourself in such a high-stakes matter as a Texas A&M School of Medicine disciplinary proceeding and risking dismissal is plainly unwise. You won't have the objectivity to pursue your best strategic approach. Medical school appeals and hearings require skilled and experienced student defense attorney advisor representation. Protect your Texas A&M medical education.
Texas A&M School of Medicine Alternative Special Relief
If you lose all Texas A&M School of Medicine hearings and appeals, you may nonetheless have another option for reinstatement. The Lento Law Firm's Education Law Team and national student defense attorney advisor Joseph D. Lento have the reputation and relationships to communicate and negotiate with offices of general counsel, outside retained counsel, and other oversight officials. They have successfully helped students gain reinstatement after dismissal and exhaustion of all hearings and appeals. Don't give up your fight for your Texas A&M medical education. Exhaust all possible options.
Texas A&M School of Medicine Defense Services
The Lento Law Firm's premier Education Law Team and national student defense attorney advisor Joseph D. Lento have successfully defended hundreds of students nationwide against school dismissal. They are available at Texas A&M School of Medicine for your skilled and experienced defense representation. Call 888.535.3686 or go online now for medical student defense services in Bryan, Texas.
