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Guidelines for Visiting Medical Students
Guidelines for Visiting Students
Starting April 2008, the University Of Tennessee College Of Medicine will be using VSAS, the new Visiting Student Application Service, to receive visiting student applications from students attending US LCME accredited schools. International and Osteopathic Students: VSAS is not yet available for international or osteopathic student use. Please use the Extramural Electives Compendium (EEC) for visiting student application information. US LCME medical students, please complete a VSAS application for your preferred electives and dates. For more information on VSAS, please see www.aamc.org/vsas or contact vsas@aamc.org or (202) 478-9878. For more information on our visiting student electives, please contact Ruby Bland rlbland@utmem.edu.
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The University of Tennessee, College of Medicine has elective
opportunities available at its sites in Memphis, Knoxville, Chattanooga, Nashville,
and Jackson for
students from other medical schools. To be eligible for consideration,
students must meet the following criteria:
- Visiting students must be candidate for the M.D. or D.O. degree in good standing in an accredited medical school or from institutions with which UTHSC has a formal exchange program. Any exceptions to this policy must be approved by the Dean of Medical Education or his/her designee.
- Visiting students shall be limited to a maximum of (12 weeks) of experiences during their medical school career. Electives will be assigned to visiting students only after all University of Tennessee students have been scheduled.
- All visiting students must have:
- coverage for malpractice/liability insurance in the amount of $1 million per incident and $3 million aggregate from their institution or from acceptable other sources,
- health insurance,
- required immunizations for measles and rubella,
- completed the Hepatitis B vaccine series,
- taken a TB skin test within the past year, and
- been certified in CPR within the past year.
- Visiting students must have completed instruction in the basic physical examination and have a working knowledge of general ward procedures. All electives require that the student has completed the basic Family Medicine, Medicine, Neurology, Pediatrics, Surgery, Psychiatry, and Obstetrics-Gynecology clerkships. All students must have met the prerequisites of the clerkship to which they are applying.
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Application Process
An original Visiting
Student Application form must be submitted to the UT Office
of Medical Education no earlier than April of the student's junior year and
at least four weeks prior to
beginning
the
rotation (click here for
the rotation schedules).
This form is not available online. Students attending
U.S. medical
schools
may
obtain applications from the respective
departments in the UT College of Medicine. Others should request
applications from the College
of Medicine's
Office of Medical Education .
The completed application should be submitted
via mail to:
Office of Medical Education
UT College of Medicine
930 Madison, Suite 836
Memphis, TN 38163
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It is expected that your clerkship work at The University of
Tennessee will be part of the graduation requirements of your
school. For
this reason, it
is essential that an authorization for taking an elective from
your Dean's Office
be submitted. Section II of the Visiting Student Application provides
for this authorization.
You must be in good standing in your
final year at
your institution and authorized to take an elective. Currently,
students who are regularly
enrolled in another medical school and paying tuition at
that school are not charged tuition at The University of Tennessee
for brief
elective periods.
This policy may change in the future, and the school reserves
the right to charge
tuition at any time.
It is the individual student's responsibility to secure housing.
The campus housing office can be contacted (901) 448-5609 regarding
availability.
Further specifics
about housing can be obtained from the department in which
the elective rotation will be taken.
Please note: Criminal background checks may be a requirement for training
at some affiliated clinical sites. Based on the results of these
checks, an affiliated clinical
site may determine to not allow your presence at their
facility.
If you have additional questions, please contact Ruby Bland in the Office
of Medical Education at rlbland@utmem.edu or 901-448-5506.
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