Other than failing any USMLE exams, clerkships, serious professionalism issues, and not matching, what other things have you all heard that can prevent someone from not graduating medical school? What if you fail an elective class?
what does it take to not graduate
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Hmmmm...great question!
Offhand, I can think of getting dismissed for some transgression in the past (like lying on your app); there's also voluntary withdrawing. We've seen that happen a few times at my school.
Medical issues can be another one. Obviously, you take a LOA if you get a serious illness or injury, but if you can't come back by a specified time (this will be in your student handbook and will also vary from school to school), then you can't graduate. I think that has a few times since I've been on faulty.
I suppose something having to do with monetary issues is possible...like being unable to secure a loan for tuition?
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MS4 will this prevent me from graduation?
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Does premed neuroticism not end upon acceptance to med school?
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In addition to the reasons mentioned above, I've personally known several people not being able to graduate because they have a research elective and make their research mentor angry or don't finish their projects.
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What school made matching a condition of graduation?
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not matching does not make you ineligible for graduation. largely it has to be big issue; large professionalism problem. failing multiple courses despite remediation, ect
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If you are rude to female classmates at a dance, jump out of a moving taxi to avoid paying the fare, lie about seeing patients and attendance, and get a DUI but fail to report it to your school, that should do the trick.
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Also, being overweight with poor hygiene, apparently.
Medical Student's Expulsion Stirs A Legal Battle
"Witnesses testified that she frequently wore lab coats that were dirty or yellow and that, on at least two occasions, her fingernails were inadequately cleaned."
Medical Student's Expulsion Stirs A Legal Battle
"Witnesses testified that she frequently wore lab coats that were dirty or yellow and that, on at least two occasions, her fingernails were inadequately cleaned."
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At my school, someone was arrested. And for some reason that didn't lead to immediate expulsion. >_>
Ok, I get it lol. Pissing off a research mentor/receiving an incomplete on a research elective won’t prevent me from graduating. Thanks!!
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Did you note the date of the headline???
You also forgot to mention this tiny little detail: "not being able to get along with patients, doctors on the medical school staff and fellow students."
I guarantee you that this was only the tip of the iceberg. Med schools are loath to pull the trigger on a student for a single sin (unless it's something really outrageous).
BTW, the case went to the Supreme Court and the student lost.
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A guy in my class got arrested during the class ski trip.
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Yes, but this was in 1973, and the fact that her weight and appearance kept getting thrown around in Missouri.... I'd say it was more likely then than it is now that there was some real discrimination taking place for one reason or another. That said, it also seems that her case lost because of the legal implications it had regarding a school's autonomy to decide who to keep and expel. What happened to her likely was unfair, but if the law doesn't support going against the school and the ramifications.... well, the law can't make things fair for all.
Things don't go to the Supreme Court generally if there's not significant merit, legal merit, anyway, to both sides of a case, that makes it worthy of further clarification of the law.
Possibly tip of the iceberg, but in this particular case, she might have been just as disheveled as my med school attending mentor was. A bit of a hippie, her hair always looked like she rolled out of bed. When I shower and don't style my hair (which I never do before going to the hospital) it also looks like I rolled out of bed, when in fact, that's just what it looks like cleaned. I'm sure we both wouldn't have met the "standards" in 70s Missouri for hair (unkempt hair in appearance, but clean). That said, I'm big on the fact that students got to meet standards, even when they're ridiculous. I would have done whatever was expected of my hair in 70s Missouri.
That said, doesn't mean that they weren't dicks, by today's standard, and yesterday's.
