Pre-Promotions Committee for Medical Students
Purpose
There is a Pre-Promotions Committee for each of the years, I-III. This committee meets to review the academic performance of all of the students in that year.
Goals
To provide accurate and up-to-date information on each student’s academic performance to the Promotions Committee and Dean along with fair and consistent recommendations on each student as to the appropriateness of their promotion to the next year.
Assignments
This committee meets annually to review students’ academic performance for that year.
Procedures for Nomination
Any faculty who is a course director in M-I or M-II, a clerkship director in M-III or a member or the M-IV Advisory Committee is a de facto member of the Pre-Promotions Committee.
Procedures for Appointment
Course Directors, Clerkship Directors, and members of the M-IV Advisory Committee are made after consultation with the Department Chairperson, the Associate Dean for Medical Education, and the Dean, School of Medicine.
Membership and Term
Membership on this committee is for as long as the faculty is a course director, clerkship director, or member of the M-IV Advisory Committee.
James Messmer, M.D., M.Ed., Senior Associate Dean for Medical Education, ext.: 8-9790.

