Student Policies
The following policies provide information about student responsibilities and non-education policies impacting students.
- Technical Standards: Provides information on the non-academic criteria required for admission, retention, promotion, and graduation in the MD program.
- Medical Student Leave, Withdrawal, and Readmission: Defines the various types of leaves of absence and their procedures, withdrawal from the college, and procedures for readmission.
- Professional Use of Technology and Social Media: Details expectations for the use of technology and social media.
- Medical Student Communication: Details student communication expectations.
- Tuition Refund: Provides information about tuition refunds.
- Scholarship to Medical Students: Provides scholarship procedures.
- Approved Student Travel and Reimbursement for Clinical Training in WA State: Provides information on students travel reimbursement for required clinical coursework
The following policies provide information about clinical clearance and compliance requirements:
- Student Vaccination and Health Screening: Provides information about the required vaccinations and health screenings.
- Medical Student Training on Universal Precautions: Provides information about the required training in universal and specific precautions and infection control measures for pathogens and environmental hazards prior to patient contact.
- Personal Health, Disability Income, and Professional Liability Insurance: Provides information about insurance for students and dependents.
- Post Exposure Care: Provides procedures for incidents related to any blood, body fluid exposure or other exposure incident that results in the need for medical treatment.
- Communicable Disease Exposure: Provides information about procedures for medical students with a communicable disease.
Academic Policies
The following policies provide information about the college academic policies
- Medical Student Attendance Policy: Provides attendance expectations and requirements for the curriculum as well as the process to request and excused absence.
- Clinical Supervision of Medical Students: Provides expectations for supervision of students in the clinical setting.
- Academic Workload for Pre-Clerkship Courses: Provides information on regularly scheduled learning activities and independent learning activities.
- Clinical and Non-Clinical Elective Rotations: Provides information about electives in Year 4.
- Clinical and Education Work (Duty Hours): Details information and procedures for maintaining an appropriate balance among clinical activities, educational sessions and unscheduled time.
- Non-Involvement Policy: Health Provider and Education Roles for Faculty Supervising Students: Provides expectations and requirements regarding the potential conflict of interests that may occur with faculty who educate and may provide health care of medical students.
- Comparability of Educational Experiences and Assessment: Details procedures to ensure comparable educational experiences and equivalent methods of assessment across all regional medical campuses.
- Student Promotion, Dismissal, and Graduation: Provides information about promotions (i.e., progressing through the program), academic warning and probation, dismissal, adverse rulings, and graduation.
- Students’ Right to Access Academic Records: Details the procedures for students to review and inspect their educational records.
- USMLE Step Examination Policy: Provides requirements for taking the UMSLE Step 1 and Step 2CK examinations.