“Marginal performance” is determined by the number of Failing or Low Pass grades a student receives. An F or LP in the following courses will constitute 2 points each: The Body, Cells, Neuroscience I, Physiology, Pathology, Foundations, Microbiology, Pharmacology and MCS2. An F or an LP in any of the ten System Course Segments will constitute 1 point each. Each failure of a USMLE Step I examination will constitute 3 points. In the clinical years, a failure of any NBME exam or an F or LP grade in any course will each constitute 2 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 a marginal academic performance 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.

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.