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Occupational Health
Department
Health Requirements for Incoming Students
EVMS adheres to the Centers for Disease
Control guidelines regarding immunization of health-care workers.
Incoming medical and health professions students must submit completed
health forms to the Occupational Health Department 45 days prior to
matriculation.
Copies of immunization records,
laboratory results indicating immunity, and documentation of placement
and results of tuberculin skin tests or chest X-ray reports if you
previously had a positive tuberculin skin test must accompany the health
form. Students who do not complete health requirements will not be
allowed to matriculate. Failure to comply with the School’s health requirements will result in
withdrawal of acceptance to EVMS.
Incoming students are responsible for
the cost of any necessary immunizations, laboratory tests, tuberculin
skin tests or chest X-rays as these are pre-matriculation requirements.
After school begins, the hepatitis B vaccine will be offered to all incoming students who have
not been previously vaccinated. Student are
responsible for scheduling an appointment with Occupational Health for
the immunization.
All documents should be mailed to the
Occupational Health Department:
Eastern Virginia Medical School
721 Fairfax Avenue
Norfolk, VA 23507
Attention: Occupational Health Department
Do not return the forms to the
program you will be entering.
The following are pre-matriculation
requirements:
- Tuberculin skin testing:
you are required to provide documentation of a two-step tuberculin
skin test TST) within 4 months prior to the program start date. If
the first-step TST is negative, the second-step TST should be
administered 1-3 weeks after the first TST was read. (If you have
had a TST within the past 12 months, this may be used as the
first-step TST.)
- If you have had a previous
positive PPD, attach a copy of a chest X-ray report done within
the past year and physician documentation regarding treatment dates
with antibiotic therapy or why treatment was contraindicated. Please
contact us to receive a TB
Symptom and Surveillance form that must also be completed.
- Measles, Mumps, Rubella (MMR)
immunity: attach documentation of two doses of live MMR vaccine
if you were born in or after 1957 or copies of measles, mumps, and
rubella IgG antibody titers indicating immunity.
- Varicella immunity: attach
a copy of a varicella IgG antibody titer indicating immunity or
documentation of two doses of varicella vaccine.
- Diphtheria/Pertussis/Tetanus (DPT):
attach series of five immunizations during childhood. If this
documentation is not available, the requirement will be waived as
vaccination of adults is not recommended.
- Tetanus/Diphtheria/Pertussis (Tdap):
attach documentation of a Tdap immunization. If it has been less
than two years since your last Td booster, attach a copy of the Td
booster documentation.
- Polio: attach documentation
of polio immunization (OPV or IPV) series of 4 during childhood. If
this documentation is not available, the requirement will be waived
as vaccination of adults is not recommended.
- Hepatitis B: If you have
had the Hepatitis B vaccine series, attach documentation of the
dates of the three doses and a Hepatitis B surface antibody result
indicating immunity.
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