FACULTY OF MEDICINE & DENTISTRY

PROGRESSION REQUIREMENTS

Time Limitation for Completion of Program

The 4-year program of studies leading to the degree of Doctor of Dental Surgery (DDS) must be completed in no more than five consecutive full years (sixty months) from the date of initial registration in the School of Dentistry. A student who fails to complete the program in five years must withdraw from the School of Dentistry.

To complete a year's work and be permitted to register in the succeeding year of the dental program, a student must:

1. satisfactorily complete the prescribed assignments for both credit and non credit courses.
2. obtain at least a Pass level (60%) of performance in each credit course.

A third year or fourth year student who fails the written component of a course may be granted a supplemental examination in that component provided the student's overall average in the written components of all courses taken that year is at least 65%.

If, by the end of the academic year, a student in third or fourth year has not completed all clinical cases, requirements, guidelines and other assignments prescribed in a clinical component of a course, but has an overall passing grade in those activities that have been done, the clinical Division may recommend that a grade of "Incomplete" be given. The recommendation will include:

1. the type and extent of the work to be completed;
2. the date on which it must be completed;
3. the name of the Division that will evaluate the student's work;
4. the date by which the final grade will be forwarded to the Registrar's Office.

No supplemental examinations will be permitted in the clinical component of a third or fourth year course.

A student shall be considered to have failed the year if the student attains:

1. less than a Pass level of performance (60%) in one or more courses or components of courses where supplemental examination(s) are not granted,
2. less than a Pass level of performance (60%) in a supplemental examination.

Readmission

A student who fails to complete the program in five years will be required to withdraw from the School of Dentistry and will not normally be readmitted. Readmission to the dental program following withdrawal for unsatisfactory academic standing is subject to the following conditions:

1. A student may be permitted by the Council of the School of Dentistry to repeat that year. Permission to repeat first year is seldom given and then only under extenuating circumstances. Permission to repeat one of the subsequent years is normally given but is subject to a vacancy being available in the year to be repeated.
2. Applications for readmission must be submitted in writing to the Director of the School on or before August 15 of the year in which readmission is being sought.
3. A student who is granted permission to repeat a year is required to repeat all courses of the failed year that have a clinical component, regardless of the achievement level, as well as those courses without a clinical component in which the student did not earn an "honors" (80%) achievement level in the first attempt. All prescribed work must be completed satisfactorily or the student will be required to withdraw from the School of Dentistry. Supplemental examination privileges are not normally extended to students repeating a year.

   A student who voluntarily withdraws from a specific year of instruction before the end of the Fall Term may apply, by July 1 next following, through the Director to the Council for readmission. In such event, the year from which the student withdrew would not be counted within the sixty-month period allowed to complete the program.

Reports

1. A student who successfully completes the work of the fourth year of the dental program shall be recommended for graduation.
2. A student who passes each year of the dental program with honors shall be graduated With Distinction.

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