College of Dental Medicine (CDM)—Predoctoral Program 2024–2025 114 Under certain circumstances, and after consultation with the dean, the dean may permit students to register for the Dental Medicine Audit course. For a further description and examples of circumstances when this status may be assigned to students, see the section Course Failures, Remediation, and Reexamination in this student handbook. It is the responsibility of the CDM’s dean or designee to inform students in writing regarding changes in their academic standing. C. Academic Promotion Promotion is defined as progression from one academic year to the next. To make satisfactory academic progress, a student must successfully complete all courses required in the preceding academic year to move on to the next academic year in the program. First-year (D1) predoctoral courses are considered prerequisites for second-year (D2) courses, as are D2 courses prerequisites for third-year (D3) courses, and D3 courses for fourth-year (D4) courses. Similarly, classroom and laboratory courses are considered to be prerequisites for clinical assignments. As such, no student with an incomplete, withdrawal, or failure in a prerequisite course will be permitted to proceed with clinical assignments without written approval from the assistant dean of Academic Affairs. The dental professional is obligated and expected to practice lifelong learning. As such, student performance, academic promotion, and approval of degree conferral include the responsibility for all students to continue learning on an ongoing and full-time basis of continued and comprehensive patient care, and attendance to all classes, through the last day of their predoctoral program. The SPC will consider each predoctoral student’s academic performance and annually recommend to the dean all students who are eligible for promotion into the next academic year, as well as those qualified for degree conferral. 1. Student Grades and Performance Evaluation At the completion of each course, the course director will have the responsibility for posting students’ grades in Canvas and submitting grades to the college’s Office for Academic Affairs. Successful completion of each CDM course requires compliance with the CDM Code of Behavioral Conduct. Each academic department has established criteria describing levels of clinical competence within each dental discipline and determined the number/types/quality of clinical experiences and professional attributes necessary for students to complete their program requirements and to demonstrate competency. Each department has also established criteria to achieve grade levels in the respective department. This information is available to students from each of the college’s academic departments. As such, the CDM’s grade format is the following (next page): For students who matriculated into the D.M.D. program, grading of all didactic, laboratory, and clinical courses is based on a letter grade format, as per the table below:
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