Appeal Process

1. Within fourteen (14) days of receipt of the DRC decision, the resident may submit a written notice of appeal to the DRC. The DRC will forward the request for appeal, along with the entire record before the DRC, to the Graduate Medical Education Committee, as soon as the record can be compiled and a transcript can be made.
   
   
2. The GMEC Chair will appoint a subcommittee, consisting of no fewer than three of its members, to review the Program Director's initial Notice of Action and response by the resident, and the decision of the DRC, including the findings of fact and conclusions.
   
   
3. The subcommittee may obtain additional facts from either the program director or the resident, as deemed necessary, but will address no issues that were not raised in the original Notice of Action and response.
   
   
4. The subcommittee will either uphold, overrule, or modify the DRC's decision, but will entertain no new evidence nor hear from the parties directly.
   
   
5. The subcommittee will forward a copy of its decision to the GME Office. The GME office will provide a copy of the decision to the resident, either by hand-delivery or mail, the DRC, the Program Director, the Department Head, the Dean for Academic Affairs, the Associate Dean for Graduate Medical Education, and the University Attorneys' Office.
   
   
6. The resident will be entitled to no further appeal or additional administrative review.

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