Immunization & Health Requirements
 Requirements
for Health Career Students
Education and Health Promotion:
Health Services oversees clinical rotation clearance of students in Health
Career programs in accordance with New York State requirements. This clearance
is required for the protection of patients at the clinical site and for
the student’s protection from both infectious diseases and physical
injury.
Health Career Student Health Requirements
Each of the programs below, with the exception
of Health Information, are required to complete a Student Checklist
Evaluation of Technical Standards that is designed to identify students who
may be at risk of injury due to the demands of the program. The following programs are required to have
all health documentation completed and cleared by Health Services before
clinical rotations can begin:
These requirements are the same
for all Health Career programs:
- Physical exam by your Primary Care
Physician (PCP) or a licensed clinic providing physical exam services.
Physical exam must be submitted on the MCC Health Services Dept. Health
History and Physical Form. (If you do not have a PCP, see below for
resources.
- PPD (Tuberculin skin test) within one year
of the start of your program.
- Tetanus booster within 10 years.
- Verification of Hepatitis B immunization
series, positive Hepatitis B titer, or signed Declination of Hepatitis
B vaccination.
- Verification of MMR vaccination or positive
titers proving immunity.
- Verification of Meningitis vaccination or
declination.
In order to maintain their clinical placement,
Health Career students entering their second clinical year are required
to:
If you do not have a Primary Care
Physician (PCP) to complete your Physical Exam, there are several clinics
in the Rochester Area that can assist you.
| Confidentiality :Your medical care and counseling
at Monroe Community College Health Services are confidential. Health
care records are kept separately from academic records. We do not
release information outside of Monroe Community College without your
written permission, except upon a court order, as required by law
(as in the case of certain communicable diseases and reports of child
abuse), or as required, in our judgment, to protect you or others
from immediate physical danger. |
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