Potential dismissal, need insight

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I am preparing for an upcoming meeting to determine my dismissal eligibility after having received three Y-grades at my school alongside professionalism reports, and I am hoping for some guidance on how to approach the meeting and whether I will likely be looking at dismissal or some form of planned/structured remediation from the committee.

For some background, the courses that I fell through on are largely those that did not involve direct clinical care, and where clinical care was involved I have genuinely well-written, thoughtful evaluations that support me being a great clinician, "knowing my stuff", and having good bedside manner. Academically I would say I'm doing "fine" otherwise, and have grossly passed all of my clerkships moving forward into fourth year.

The full list of offenses is as follows:

In MS1 year:

• Remediating our school's pre-clerkship "in-between" course due to activities I forgot to log in a tracker that brought my grade below the 90% threshold. This was my first "Y" grade.

In MS3 year:

• A professionalism lapse regarding missing a due date for an updated vaccination, which I received a warning letter for.
• Remediating a clerkship due to missing assignments and incomplete observed required activities on my rotation checklist, resulting in a Y that has since been remediated to a passing grade.
• A professionalism lapse alongside the aforementioned remediation due to the nature of remediation being required.
• Remediating our inter-clerkship course due to missing due dates on assignments of varying weight spread out over the entirety of the MS3 year, just below the passing threshold, which became my third Y. Remediation has been completed and submitted, awaiting conversion.

All courses/activities were remediated properly and I have passing grades in them all otherwise at this point. I don't have any clinical performance concerns, patient safety issues, dishonesty, or boundary violations in my file.

I have a prior planned leave (just 3 weeks off + winter break) that the school supported, ongoing work with an academic coach, and I'm in the process of adding external counseling and engaging with my school's academic support office.

Not looking for reassurance necessarily, just looking for accurate information from people who've actually navigated this or watched someone close to them go through it.