Probation & Dismissal
Students who fail to achieve satisfactory progress are placed on probation or dismissed. The purposes of probation are: to identify unsatisfactory performance at an early date; to provide an opportunity for the student to seek academic or personal counseling; to provide the student with further opportunity to perform satisfactorily; and to notify the student that satisfactory progress is not being made toward the standards required for graduation.
Failure to achieve mastery of course competencies and/or a passing grade in remediated coursework or unsuccessful performance on a PBE following remediation may result in dismissal. In accordance with University regulations, any student with a grade point average less than 2.0 is placed on probation.
STUDENTS, WHO ARE PLACED ON PROBATION, WILL AUTOMATICALLY BE DISMISSED IF A GRADE OF LESS THAN C IS RECEIVED IN ANY COURSE DURING THE TIME PERIOD WHILE ON PROBATION. IF THE COURSEWORK IS SATISFACTORILY COMPLETED, STUDENTS WILL CONTINUE ON PROBATION FOR AN ADDITIONAL CALENDAR YEAR, AT WHICH TIME THE STUDENT MAY BE REMOVED FROM PROBATION BY FAVORABLE ACTION OF THE ACADEMIC STATUS COMMITTEE. Students who are allowed to repeat fourth year coursework will remain on probation until they have successfully completed all of the requirements for graduation. The Committee will review annually the status of all students on probation.
As a general rule, a student will only be allowed to repeat one year of the four-year curriculum because of poor academic performance. An exception to this rule may be made in highly selected instances if 80% of the eligible voting members of the Academic Status Committee approve.
The Decompressed Academic Schedule ("2 in 3 Program")
In highly select circumstances, students may be allowed to have a decompressed schedule that permits them to complete the basic science curriculum in three, rather than two, years. As a general rule, proposals for this modified curriculum may be made by the Senior Associate Dean for Educational Affairs, Associate Dean for Medical Education, Associate Dean for Student Affairs, or the College of Medicine Counselor, after consultation with Basic Science course directors.
Examples of situations that may justify the decompressed schedule include, but are not limited to, the following:
- The student is a parent, particularly a single parent, of a young child and needs to decompress his/her academic schedule to maintain the stability of the family.
- The student has a newly recognized and well-documented medical or psychological condition or a learning disability which has adversely affected his/her academic performance, and the condition or disability is such that it cannot be addressed by the usual College of Medicine accommodations. For the purposes of this policy, documentation of the medical or psychological condition or learning disability must be made by approved sources such as the UF Psychology Clinic, UF Student Mental Health Services, UF Outpatient Psychiatry Service, or the Office of Student Counseling and Development.
Prior to consideration for this decompressed schedule, the student must have demonstrated clear evidence of the ability to succeed academically. The student also must have demonstrated a consistently high standard of professional behavior.
All proposals for a decompressed academic schedule must be considered and approved by the Academic Status Committee.
If a student fails to make satisfactory progress while in the decompressed schedule, he/she will be subject to adverse academic action, including dismissal from school. The student will have the right to appeal such a decision directly to the Dean of the College of Medicine.
Additionally, the following standards apply to students of the College of Medicine.
- STANDARD FOUR-YEAR CURRICULUM
- FIRST PRECLINICAL YEAR
Grounds for Automatic Probation
- Unsatisfactory summative evaluations in course competencies or a grade of E in any course.
- Unsatisfactory summative evaluations in course competencies or grades of D in coursework totaling more than five credit hours but fewer than 14 credit hours or a combination of the two.
Grounds for Automatic Dismissal
- Unsatisfactory summative evaluations in course competencies or grades of E in course work totaling 10 or more credit hours or a combination of the two.
- Unsatisfactory summative evaluations in course competencies or grades of D or E in coursework totaling 14 or more credit hours or a combination of the two.
- Unsatisfactory summative evaluation in a course competency or a grade of D or E in any course while on probation.
Students who receive a grade of D or E in any course or an unsatisfactory competency evaluation must remediate the deficiency. Remediation requirements will be proposed by the course director and must be approved by the Academic Status Committee.
No student is allowed to begin the second year until all first-year courses have been satisfactorily completed and the student’s promotion is approved by the Academic Status Committee.
- SECOND PRECLINICAL YEAR
Grounds for Probation
- Unsatisfactory summative evaluations in course competencies or a grade of E in any course.
- Unsatisfactory summative evaluations in course competencies or grades of D in coursework totaling more than four but fewer than 10 credit hours or a combination of the two.
Grounds for Automatic Dismissal
- A grade of E in coursework totaling 10 or more credit hours.
- Grades of D or E in course work totaling 14 or more credit hours.
- Unsatisfactory summative evaluations in course competencies or grades of E in course work totaling 10 or more credit hours or a combination of the two.
- Unsatisfactory summative evaluations in course competencies or grades of D or E in course work totaling 14 or more credit hours or a combination of the two.
- Unsatisfactory summative evaluation in a course competency or a grade of D or E in any course while on probation.
Students who receive a grade of D or E in any course or an unsatisfactory competency evaluation must remediate the deficiency. Remediation requirements will be proposed by the course director and must be approved by the Academic Status Committee.
Students who have received unsatisfactory competency evaluations or grades of D, E, or I in preclinical work are not allowed to continue into the third year clerkships until the appropriate remediation is completed and the student’s promotion is approved by the Academic Status Committee.
- THIRD-YEAR
Probation
- Unsatisfactory summative evaluation in a course competencies, if so deemed by a course or clerkship director, or a D or E grade in any clerkship.
Automatic Dismissal
- Unsatisfactory summative evaluations in the course competencies, if so deemed by a course or clerkship director, or a grade less than C in any clerkship while on probation.
As a general rule, no student is allowed to begin the fourth year until all clerkship competencies have been satisfactorily mastered and grades of D, E or I in the clinical clerkships have been remediated. In selected instances, with the express approval of the Academic Status Committee, the student may be allowed to proceed with electives, pending remediation of the coursework or clerkship.
- FOURTH YEAR
Probation
- Unsatisfactory summative evaluation in a course competency, if so deemed by a course or clerkship director, or a grade less than C in any fourth year course or clerkship.
Automatic Dismissal
- Unsatisfactory summative evaluation in a course competency, if so deemed by a course or clerkship director, or any grade less than C while on probation.
- FIRST PRECLINICAL YEAR
- OPTIONAL THREE-YEAR PRECLINICAL TRACK
- First two years of the three-year option
Probation
- Unsatisfactory summative evaluation in a course competency, if so deemed by a course or clerkship director, or any D or E grades in coursework fewer than seven credit hours.
Automatic Dismissal
- Unsatisfactory summative evaluation in a course competency, if so deemed by a course or clerkship director, or an E grade in coursework totaling seven or more credit hours.
- Unsatisfactory summative evaluation in course competency, if so deemed by a course or clerkship director, or D or E grade in coursework totaling nine or more credit hours.
- Unsatisfactory summative evaluation in a course competency, if so deemed by a course or clerkship director, or any grade less than C while on probation.
- Third year of the three-year preclinical track:
Probation
- Unsatisfactory summative evaluation in a course competency, if so deemed by a course or clerkship director, or a grade of E.
- Unsatisfactory summative evaluation in course competencies, if so deemed by a course or clerkship director, or D grade in coursework totaling four or more credit hours.
Automatic Dismissal
- Unsatisfactory summative evaluation in a course competency, if so deemed by a course or clerkship director, or any grade less than C while on probation.
- ·Unsatisfactory summative evaluation in a course competency, if so deemed by a course or clerkship director, or a grade of D or E in coursework totaling 10 or more credit hours while on probation.
No student is allowed to begin the clinical clerkships until all basic science competencies have been satisfactorily mastered. Students who have received D, E, or I grades in preclinical work are not allowed to continue into the third year until the ASC has approved appropriate remediation of that coursework.
- First two years of the three-year option
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