3.06 Falsification of Admissions Application

but will not serve in a prosecutorial or other advocacy role. Counsel for the University will not attend interviews of a student or other witnesses by a reviewing body.

Information obtained from the student in confidence by the Harvard University Health Services (HUHS) or other health care provider, whether medical or psychiatric, will neither be sought by a reviewing body nor disclosed to a reviewing body without the student’s consent. The absence of such information may, however, properly preclude the reviewing body from considering a medical excuse, explanation, or justification in a particular case. A reviewing body may require that, in connection with its deliberations or as part of a remedial or corrective action or sanction, a student obtain medical or psychiatric evaluation and/or treatment and may request that the student consent to disclosure of relevant information from that health care provider to the reviewing body or its designee.

At the appellate level, a student may object for good cause, such as evidence of conflict of interest or bias, to the service of any member of a reviewing body. Such objection must be in writing, must fully state the reasons for the objection, and must be received by the Chair of the SCRR within three days after the student is notified of the membership of a reviewing body. The Chair of the APRB or the SCRR may, if warranted, remove and replace a member of a reviewing body.

These procedures may be supplemented or modified, upon prior notice to the student, when necessary to achieve a full and fair resolution of the matter. Remedial and corrective actions and sanctions that may be imposed by the reviewing bodies under these procedures include, but are not limited to, academic remediation, personal counseling, community service, warning, reprimand, censure, probation, requirement to withdraw, dismissal and expulsion.

For disciplinary cases in which the sanction is dismissal or expulsion from the Medical School, a two-thirds vote of the Faculty Council is required. When the remedial or corrective action or sanction is probation of any kind, the decision of the reviewing body must specify the conditions and duration of the probation and the conditions for its termination. The reviewing body is responsible for assessing the satisfactory completion of the conditions of any probation and for terminating it. Imposition of a remedial or corrective action or sanction under these procedures may be included in any reference letters and given the weight that the program director and the Dean for Graduate Education determine that the action/sanction deserves in the context of that letter.