VCOM College Catalog and Student Handbook

• Examinations and Quizzes Assessment sessions including cognitive and psychomotor testing. • Early Clinical Experiences Students will be assigned to a variety of clinical venues to gain insights into medical practice in the community and practice acquired skills. • Additional learning activities may be designated as mandatory from time to time. Mechanism to Verify Attendance – OMS 1 and OMS 2 Students VCOM will record attendance for all lectures and other mandatory learning activities. VCOM may utilize different forms of recording attendance including I-Clicker, lecture hall cameras, sign in sheets, check offs, and other attendance measures, especially for laboratory or early clinical experiences. OMS 1 and OMS 2 Tardiness Tardiness is defined as not arriving at the designated start time of a mandatory learning activity or exam or not being ready to participate at the scheduled start time. As a student in a professional degree program, students are expected to arrive early for all scheduled events. Timely arrival is 10 minutes prior to the scheduled academic activity. Punctuality is considered an important tenet of professionalism and is an expectation for all VCOM students. Students are expected to arrive with ample time to begin the scheduled mandatory sessions at the designated start time. Tardiness is disrespectful and disruptive. A student who arrives late may be denied participation depending on the requirements of the activity. For examinations, doors will close at the designated start time. Any student who arrives after the designated start time will be considered tardy and must report to the Office of Medical Education instead of entering the lecture hall or other testing space and may be denied entry into the lecture hall/testing space, requiring the exam to be made up at the discretion of Med Ed. Students who are not permitted to complete the exam during the scheduled time must submit a request for an unplanned excused absence; submission of such a request does not guarantee approval, and the absence may be documented as unexcused. Repeated tardiness will be referred to the Honor Code Council. Students must be in their assigned seat to receive credit for attendance, if they are not present in their seat at the time attendance is taken, they will be marked as absent. Repeated tardiness in regard to mandatory learning activities and exams will be defined as: • Two or more tardy incidences in a block • Three or more tardy incidences in consecutive blocks OMS 1 and OMS 2 Excused Absences Excused absences are those that may be expected or unexpected and that meet the criteria for an excused absence as outlined below. Excused absences are included in the 30% allowable absences for the block.

Excused absences fall into two categories: • Planned Excused Absences • Unplanned Excused Absences

Students must request approval for a planned or unplanned excused absence when: • Any absence will exceed the 30% of allowable absences for the block; • An absence will result in missing a mandatory learning activity that requires 100% attendance; or

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