• Welcome
• Introduction
• Clerkship Expectations
  • Patient Assignments
  • Kinds of Workups
  • Call
  • Outpatient Clinic
  • Operating Room
  • Conferences
  • Evaluation Process
  • Grade Review Process
• Overview
  • Goals
  • Description
  • Infection Control
  • Protected Time
  • Illnesses/Absences
  • Dress Code
  • Priority List
• Core Curriculum Objectives
  • Specialty Objectives
    • Cardiothoracic
    • Colorectal
    • Emergency Medicine
    • General Surgery
    • Neurosurgery
    • Orthopaedics
    • Otolaryngology
    • Pediatrics
    • Plastic Surgery
    • Trauma
    • Urology
    • Vascular
  • Additional Readings
• Current Clerkship
  • Call Schedule
  • Specialty Schedule
  • Orientation Schedule
• Administration
• Links
• Department Home

Illnesses & Off-Campus Absences

If you are ill, you must page the senior resident on your team no later that 7:00 a.m. An email to a member of the team is unacceptable. You must also notify the nurse instructor. Failure to notify all of the proper individuals will be considered unexcused and will be reflected on the end of clerkship final evaluation. The Clerkship Director and Dean of Students will be notified if any student is absent. Off-campus absences (due to family illness, official school events, etc.) must be approved in advance. Be sure to inform the Nurse Instructor so she can make the appropriate changes in your schedules. The expectation is that students will have 100% attendance. All time must be accounted for and all absences, except official school functions, will be made up by the student. This may require extra weekend coverage and/or additional clinical time after the clerkship is completed.