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A doctor has been charged by the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Saskatchewan with unbecoming, improper or discreditable conduct in connection with an incident alleged to have occurred when he was a medical student.

Jesse Leontowicz is accused of sexually assaulting a woman he met on the dating app Tinder in Regina in January 2018. According to documents from the college outlining the accusation, the encounter began as consensual sex, but Leontowicz went beyond the boundaries of what had been consented to.

The College of Physicians and Surgeons of Saskatchewan said Leontowicz was a medical student at the time of the alleged incident.

The charges have not been proven nor tested in a hearing before the college's discipline committee.

A college document detailing the allegations of unprofessional conduct says Leontowicz and the woman communicated about having rough sex, and when they started with intercourse, things were consensual.

At one point, the document alleges, Leontowicz took off his condom and forced the woman to continue having sex even though she did not consent to having sex with no condom.

The professional charge says that everything that happened after the condom was taken off was non-consensual, Rochelle Wempe with the college confirms.

Leontowicz allegedly held the woman down, spat on her and hit her repeatedly, leaving her body bruised.

Calls and messages to Leontowicz for comment on this story were not returned by publication time.

The matter was discussed at the most recent meeting of the College of Physicians and Surgeons, according to the college's legal counsel Bryan Salte.

"I anticipate that he will deny the allegations based upon the information that's been given to us," Salte said. "It will be necessary for it to go to a hearing to determine whether the charges are proved or the charges are not proved."

Salte said a hearing date has not yet been set. He said the college still needs to go through the appropriate steps to call a hearing and he said he anticipated expert evidence would be submitted so additional time will be needed to allow the committee to hear that evidence.

Salte said police involvement in the investigation is out of the college's control.

"We deal with potential unprofessional conduct by our members, and whether a matter is being addressed by the justice system is something that doesn't directly involve us," he said.

CBC has reached out to police in Regina to find out if a criminal investigation has been launched into this incident.

A spokesperson for the Regina Police Service said no news releases that contain Leontowicz's name have been issued, but not every incident police investigate includes a subsequent news release.