VCOM College Catalog and Student Handbook

Student Participation in Other Students’ Healthcare VCOM students may participate in rotations with healthcare providers or shadow healthcare providers that offer healthcare services to other VCOM students. VCOM students are not allowed to participate in any aspect of the healthcare of other VCOM students, including observation, regardless of whether the student patient gives consent or not. Additionally, VCOM students are not allowed to participate in any aspect of the healthcare of other VCOM students’ dependents unless consent has been attained. It is the responsibility of the attending physician assigned to provide or oversee a medical student’s care in any healthcare setting (inpatient, outpatient, acute care of ED) to ensure that another medical student is not assigned to be involved in that student’s care, not present during any phase of that student’s care, nor permitted to have access to that student’s medical record (i.e. not be involved in any aspect of the student’s healthcare). It is the responsibility of the student who is on rotation or shadowing in the clinical setting to notify the treating physician of the presence of a VCOM student patient (if identified) and to remove themselves from the room and from all aspects of their healthcare. In addition, it is the responsibility of the VCOM student patient to inform the VCOM student on rotation or VCOM student who is shadowing and the physician providing care of the presence of a VCOM rotating/shadowing student and to request that the student leave the room and not be involved in any aspect of their healthcare. As the VCOM clinical training sites may not identify the patient as a VCOM student, it is an expectation that students seeking healthcare services identify themselves as a VCOM student.

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