The Trainee will automatically be suspended from the GME training program for any of the following reasons:

• failure to complete and maintain medical records as required by the medical center or site in accordance with the center’s/hospital’s medical staff bylaws and/or rules and regulations; or
• failure to comply with state licensing requirements of the California State Medical Board; or
• failure to obtain or maintain proper visa status; or
• unexcused absence from the GME Training Program for five or more days.

The period of automatic suspension should not exceed ten (10) days; however, other forms of administrative or academic action may follow the period of automatic suspension.

The Chair or the Trainee’s supervisor will promptly notify the Trainee of his/her automatic suspension in writing. In addition, for subsections b, c, and d above, the Trainee will be provided the facts upon which the suspension is based and a written notice of the intent to consider the Trainee to have automatically resigned at the end of the suspension period (see Part II.A.2. below). The Trainee may utilize the suspension period to rectify (a) or to respond to the notice of intent under (b), (c) or (d) which may include correcting the problem identified in (b) or (c). If the Trainee is suspended under (a) and does not complete the medical records as required within the ten (10) day suspension period, other administrative or academic action may be instituted.

The Trainee will not receive any academic credit during the period of automatic suspension. The Trainee stipend will continue to be paid while the Trainee is on automatic suspension status.