To: Representative Assembly of the Davis Division of the Academic Senate

60. Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Medicine.

(A) Academic requirements for the degree of Doctor of Medicine are:

(3) The candidate must have taken and passed Step 1 of the United States Medical Licensing Examination before continuing the required clerkships of the third year medical curriculum beyond the end of the fall quarter of the third year,and must have taken Step II of these examinations prior to graduation. (Am. 6/22/81; 5/27/92; 6/14/99)

70. Grades and Grading.

(B) The work of all students for required courses of the curriculum for the M.D. degree, or courses taken to meet requirements for fourth year selectives, shall be reported only in terms of eight grades: A (excellent), B (good), C (fair), D (marginal pass), F (failure), I (incomplete but work of passing quality), Y (provisional, work of either marginal or non-passing quality) and IP (in progress), with the exceptions of MDS 440; "Responsibilities of Medical Practice" and PSY 402: "Human Sexuality" which shall be graded S (satisfactory) or U (unsatisfactory). (Am. 12/2/88; 1/7/92; 12/31/94; 6/14/99)

(E) The grade Y is a non-passing provisional grade that may will be assigned to allow a student the opportunity to remediate a deficiency and receive improve a marginal or non-passing grade. No grade higher than C can be awarded in remediation of the Y grade. Failure to remediate the Y grade will result in an F the original grade. (Am. 7/1/83; 12/31/94; 3/20/98; 6/14/99)

Each student during the course of their School of Medicine training may be assigned the Y grade and given the opportunity to remediate this grade for a maximum total of four preclinical and clinical courses. After four Ys are accumulated, further unsatisfactory marginal or non-passing performance according to course criteria must be assigned the D or F grade respectively.

For courses in the preclinical curriculum, until the maximum number of four Y grades allowed per student has been reached, a student will be assigned a Y grade if they otherwise would have received a D or an F following the completion of all required examinations. This student is to be given the opportunity for reexamination within one week after grades are available to the student, and whenever possible, the reexamination will be given no later than the fifth day of the next quarter. The grade assigned following completion of the reexamination is to based either solely on the results of the reexamination or on some aggregate of all examinations as specified by the Instructor of Record at the beginning of the course.

For required clinical clerkships, until the maximum number of four Y grades allowed per student has been reached, the student is to be assigned the Y grade, if they otherwise would have received a D or an F grade and if the Instructor of Record believes that the student might be able to satisfactorily meet the requirements of the clerkship by repeating part but not all of the clerkship. For required clerkships, each student assigned the Y grade must complete the clerkship requirements as specified by the Committee on Student Progress in response to the recommendations of the Instructor of Record of the clerkship. An F grade is to be assigned directly by the Instructor of Record if the student is to be required to repeat the clerkship in its entirety. (Am. 12/31/94; 3/20/98; 6/14/99)

80. Remediation, Probation, Dismissal and Appeal

(A) Remediation

(1) Remediation of an F or D grade requires that the course be retaken either at the next time offered in the regular schedule or by means of Credit by Examination or at a time in accord with other recommendations by the Committee on Student Progress. If a student fails United States Medical Licensing Examination Step 1, he or she must retake it the next time offered before the end of the following quarter, or at another time as specified by the Committee on Student Progress. (Am. 6/14/99)

(5) No student who has an unremediated D, F, or Y grade in a required third or fourth year course, or is on probation as described below, may take required clerkships or selectives in another institution without approval of the Committee on Student Progress. (Am. 12/31/94; 3/20/98; 6/14/99)

80. (B) Academic Probation

(4) Removal of Academic Probation

(b) Any student who receives two or more failing grades in a single quarter in years one and two, or two failing grades (F or a Y) in consecutive required clerkships, or while on probation receives a further failing grade and is not dismissed, will be on probation for no longer than three quarters after all deficiencies have been removed. (c b)
(d c)

80. (C) Academic Dismissal:

(3) A student receiving a total of three F's, or two F's and two D's, may be subject to dismissal whether or not he/she is on probation at the time the third F is received either of these criteria are met. (Am. 6/14/99)