St. George's University School of Medicine in Grenada, West Indies, is a strong and distinguished Caribbean medical school program with an outstanding record of qualifying its graduates for U.S. medical residencies, licensure, and practice. St. George's Medical School attracts students with its rotating enrollment, flexible scheduling, and additional time to prepare for USMLE Steps 1 and 2 exams and for U.S. residencies. The Caribbean culture and weather add to the attractiveness of St. George's rigorous medical program. You made a good choice in attending the school with the goal of a U.S. residency and medical practice.
Yet St. George's Medical School students must still meet the program's challenging curriculum requirements. Failure to progress academically can result in your school dismissal. St. George's University medical students must meet the University's student code of conduct, the violation of which can likewise result in school dismissal. Medical school is hard enough without facing school dismissal due to misconduct charges or academic progression issues. Let the Lento Law Firm's premier Education Law Team protect your investment in your St. George's University School of Medicine education. Call 888.535.3686 or chat with us now for skilled and experienced medical student defense representation.
St. George's Medical School Dismissal Grounds
St. George's Medical School Academic Progress Issues
St. George's University School of Medicine students must generally meet the minimum academic requirements of the University's satisfactory academic progress (SAP) policy. If you fail to maintain the policy's minimum cumulative 3.00 grade-point average, credits completed, and time to graduation requirements, the school's Committee for Satisfactory Academic Progress and Professional Standards (CAPPS) may recommend your dismissal. The University's SAP policy also ensures your access to federal direct student loans. Falling out of SAP compliance may cause you to lose your financial aid, barring your further enrollment. Beware of SAP issues. You could suffer St. George's University School of Medicine dismissal.
St. George's Medical School Professionalism Issues
Making the minimum grades isn't your only challenge. The St. George's University student code of conduct requires that you exhibit civil and professional behavior throughout your enrollment. Violations of the student code of conduct can include academic dishonesty like exam cheating, plagiarism, and research fraud. Violations can also include behavioral misconduct like property theft, damage, vandalism, insubordination and disrespect toward instructors or school officials, computer misuse, interpersonal violence, and even lewd or disorderly conduct. Sexual misconduct allegations like sexual assault, dating violence, stalking, and sexual harassment can also derail your St. George's University School of Medicine enrollment. Other professionalism issues can include your inappropriate dress or demeanor in clinical settings, attending class or clinical assignments while intoxicated by alcohol or impaired by drugs, or even alcohol, drug, or weapons possession. Beware of St. George's Medical School's misconduct charges. You could suffer medical school dismissal.
St. George's Medical School Misconduct Adjudication
Fortunately, St. George's Medical School misconduct allegations, charges, or even findings do not necessarily mean that you must suffer school dismissal. St. George's University School of Medicine's student code of conduct purports to offer you “example, guidance, counseling, and admonition in the development of responsible student conduct,” as the preferred means of resolving academic progression and misconduct issues, over use of its disciplinary system and procedures. St. George's student code of conduct also promises procedural safeguards when its disciplinary officials pursue misconduct allegations while threatening dismissal or other serious penalties. However, St. George's medical students must generally invoke protective procedures in a timely, proper, strategic, and effective manner for the best disciplinary outcome. The University's disciplinary procedures are not always self-executing. You may already have lost your disciplinary hearing and appeal due to a lack of effective advocacy and skilled representation.
St. George's Medical School Hearing Process
St. George's University School of Medicine maintains a Faculty Judicial Panel to conduct either formal or informal hearings on student misconduct charges at its discretion. Our skilled and experienced attorneys can appear on your behalf at those hearings to advocate and negotiate for a favorable, remedial rather than disciplinary outcome. We know how to identify, gather, organize, and present exonerating and mitigating evidence, challenge adverse witnesses through cross-examination, and propose alternative remedial relief that satisfies University interests while preserving your record, reputation, and education. St. George's University also offers an appeal to the school's dean of adverse decisions the Faculty Judicial Panel or dean of students reaches against you, just as the University also offers an SAP appeal process for your academic progression issues. Our attorneys know how to identify and advocate the appeal grounds that the University recognizes for reversing an adverse decision. Let us help. Don't give up, even if you have already lost your initial hearings and suffered adverse findings with imposed discipline.
St. George's Medical School Sanctions
St. George's University School of Medicine's student code of conduct clearly authorizes its disciplinary panels and officials to suspend you from the medical program, bar you from campus, and dismiss you from the University, depending on the misconduct it finds or believes you committed. School suspension and dismissal, though, are not necessarily the outcome, even for serious charges brought against you on substantial evidence. University officials may agree with our attorneys' presentation that remedial education, school service, restitution, medical or psychological evaluation, disability evaluation, or other alternative, non-disciplinary relief may be the preferred outcome for all involved. Your goal should be to preserve your clean academic and behavioral record to ensure your graduation and U.S. medical residency and licensure.
St. George's Medical School Alternative Special Relief
Even if you have already exhausted all St. George's Medical School hearings and appeals, we may be able to help you preserve your enrollment and education. Like other medical schools and universities, St. George's University School of Medicine has a general counsel's office and, on occasion, retains outside counsel for regulatory oversight and other risk-exposure purposes. Our attorneys have the reputation and experience to reach oversight officials to advocate and negotiate for alternative special relief. Do not give up without exhausting every available opportunity to preserve your medical education. Let us help.
St. George's Medical School Defense Available
The Lento Law Firm's premier Education Law Team is available to you represent you at St. George's University School of Medicine. Call 888.535.3686 or chat with us now for skilled student defense representation in Grenada, West Indies.
