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  2. Every medical student at Renaissance School of Medicine at Stony Brook University is expected to take the Step I exam promptly after the end of the second year and before the beginning of the third year. Under extenuating circumstances with approval from the Dean’s Office, a student may delay taking the Step I exam if requested by June 1st. In all situations, students are REQUIRED to take the Step I examination within six months of completion of the second year of school. In the event of a student failing the first attempt at the Step I examination, the repeat examination has to be taken within six months of the first attempt date.

    A student who fails the first take of the USMLE Step 1 exam may complete the clerkship being taken when the failing grade is reported. The student must then retake Step 1 before continuing with any other coursework. After retaking Step 1 and while awaiting the results, the student may restart clinical rotations by taking a short (2 or 4 week) elective. If the student passes the second take of Step 1, he or she may resume the third year clerkships. A student who receives a second failing score will immediately stop clinical rotations and cannot be permitted to begin further coursework until Step 1 is passed.

  3. Under extenuating circumstances, a student may request a delay in these deadlines by submitting a written petition signed by the student's advisor to the Vice Dean of Undergraduate Medical Education.

  4. The language or ideas taken from others may range from isolated formulas, sentences, or paragraphs to entire sections of books, periodical articles, speeches, or the writings of others. Plagiarism also includes offering someone else's work as one's own or submitting, without acknowledgment, materials assembled or collected by others in the form of projects or collections. Additional information about Plagiarism is available to students in CBase and at various orientation programs.

  5. The request must be presented within 5 days of the date of the posting of the grade. The request must be in writing and specify the reasons for the reconsideration. The course director must respond in writing within a week of receipt of the request.

  6. Make Up Exam Policy: What to do when you fail a course in first or second year:

    1. Student selects a make-up date by looking at the official school calendar for posted make up dates
    2. For inhouse “Questionmark” exams, student emails Neill Clenaghan and lets him know the choice of date at least 2 weeks prior to the exam date
    3. Neill emails Dr. London to see if the student is eligible to take an exam (i.e. the student has not failed 3 first year courses or 3 year 2 courses, or Pathophysiology III and one other Pathophysiology course so they are eligible)
    4. Dr. London responds to Neill and cc's the course director so that they know when the student is taking the exam
    5. Neill emails the details to the student (when the exam will be available for them to take)
    6. Neill emails the results to the course director so a final grade can be calculated, and to Mary Jean Allen for tracking purposes
    7. If the make-up is an NBME or customized NBME, student should see Mary Jean Allen at least 4 weeks prior to the test date with choice of date so exam can be ordered on time.
    8. It is recommended that second year students take make ups close to the end of the course instead of leaving it for the end of the year when they will be studying for Step 1.

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  7. The School tracks academic marginality using marginality points. A student who accumulates a total of fourteen (14) points in the first 2 years of medical school or sixteen (16) points during the first 3 years of medical school will be considered to have chronic academic marginality, irrespective of other grades. Said student will be automatically referred to the Committee on Academic Standing and may be at risk for dismissal from the school. This is how we calculate the marginality points:

    • “Marginal performance” for year 1 is 65 to <70
    • For year 2 it is 68 to <72
    • For years 3 and 4 it is Low Pass.

    An F or marginal performance in the following courses will constitute 2 points each:

    • The Body
    • Molecular Foundations of Medicine
    • Neuroscience I
    • Physiology
    • Pathology
    • Foundations of Medical Practice
    • Pharmacology and
    • MCS2
    • Pathophysiology I, II, IV, V
    • In the clinical years, a failure of any NBME exam or an F or LP grade

    An F or marginal performance in the following will constitute 3 marginality points:

    • Pathophysiology III: Pulmonary/Cardiology/Renal
    • Failure of USMLE Step I examination

    Additionally, a student with a Step I exam failure and three failures of NBME subject exams, regardless of the total number of marginality points or remediation, will be automatically referred to the Committee on Academic Standing and may be at risk for dismissal from the school.

     

     

  8. A student who receives two incompletes and/or "Z's" cumulatively must stop rotations immediately and retake failed exams and complete other unmet requirements before starting other course work. The student may start an elective rotation while waiting for score reports from retaken exams. If a failing exam is reported during the ensuing rotation, the student must stop the rotation and remediate the failed course.