General Course Requirements
Students enrolled in the Medical Assisting Program at Northwestern Health Sciences University have certain rights and responsibilities. Students’ rights and responsibilities include, but are not limited to: fair evaluations, advisement and counseling, and assistance in identifying and meeting learning goals.
The student is expected to:
- Take personal responsibility for his/her actions that facilitate, impede, or interfere with the achievement of learning objectives.
- Demonstrate collaborative behavior to achieve course outcomes by communicating with and utilizing faculty as resource persons.
- Take personal responsibility for managing information about course requirements, announcements, and assignments (due dates, etc.).
- Communicate with the appropriate faculty when it is necessary to be absent.
- Evaluate his/her behavior relative to progress toward learning objectives and goals using mid-term reports.
Certain issues or conditions may result with a referral to the Dean of the College of Health and Wellness with recommendations of dismissal from the Medical Assisting program. Some of these issues or conditions may be:
- A student who has not successfully completed a Medical Assisting course after taking the same course a second time
- A student who refuses any clinical education site offered to him/her.
- A student who is not progressing satisfactorily in didactic courses or clinical training and/or who is unable to complete clinical training required competencies
- A student who has not demonstrated professionalism and/or clinical suitability.
- A student in violation of the Medical Assisting program’s clinical training attendance policies
- A student has committed academic misconduct such as cheating or behaving in a way that is distracting to others (See the University Catalog)
- A student dismissed from Clinical Training will receive a failing grade.