The Success Plan
Overview
The Success plan is an agreement between the student and the program for the purpose of student remediation. The goal of the success plan is to facilitate success and to focus effort thereby resulting in improved performance and thus meeting the course requirements by the end of term. A success plan is NOT punitive, but instead the intent is to provide a structured path to student success in the course.
When and How it is used
A success plan may be implemented as a result of a variety of situations:
- The student has demonstrated a pattern of behavior or performance requiring improvement by receiving a score of “not met” or “needs improvement” on the same criterion in the Domains of Practice evaluations on the midterm evaluation.
- The student has received a score of “not met” or “needs improvement” on a midterm evaluation.
- A critical incident has occurred where the student demonstrated a significant lack of knowledge, skill or professionalism that ought to reasonably be present at this stage of the student’s clinical education;
When the student has several critical element criteria requirements unmet by midterm, it is the student’s responsibility to participate in the creation of the success plan with guidance from the instructor. Prior to implementation of the success plan, the professional practice instructor and student will discuss the plan. This is the student’s opportunity to seek clarification and ensure they understand each section. The student will seek and the instructor will provide weekly feedback on success plan progress. At the target date or on successful attainment of all required success indicators (whichever comes first), the professional practice instructor and student will meet to document the results of the contract.
