Student On-Boarding

View Welcome to Pediatrics Presentation

• • Recorded presentation (54 min)

  • Slide set

Read course and/or clinical site overviews well in advance (at least ~2-4w) of your scheduled rotation. We really cannot stress this enough. Doing this will not only help you get most out of each rotation but also be helpful with work-life integration and schedule planning

The site overviews include very specific onboarding instructions including recommended individual study resources which have been written and which are regularly reviewed by the elective directors.

The site overviews additionally give you a good idea about the course/site schedule which should be helpful in planning other activities including planned excused absences (Eg. doctor’s appointments)

• Clerkship fOSCE, OSCE and academic half days are set for the year prior to block 1.

• Subspecialty clinics as well as division educational conferences typically occur on a set schedule. So for instance Monday and Tuesday might be especially clinically heavy meaning days that would ideally not be missed. Please see Learning Environment for information about excused absences.

• Several sites require students to contact the course director at least 2w prior to starting. Contacting them Sunday evening prior to your rotation (1) does not reflect well on you and might affect your evaluation (2) is unlikely to get a timely response. Faculty are not expected to return e-mails during the weekend.

Update your facesheet

• Before your first Pediatric rotation, we create a student facesheet and invite you to complete as much or as little of it as you wish. We share this document with clinical teams along with course and site directors who appreciate the change to get to know a little about you (even if only putting a face to a name)

• We suggest you save save a shortcut to this document in your google drive as you will have the opportunity to update it with each Pediatric rotation.

The following are required prior to working in the clinical environment: clerkships, career exploration electives, pre-clerkship clinical electives, along with active observation and volunteer work.

• Proof of vaccination

  • • Tdap

    • MMR (two doses or positive titer)

    • Varicella (two doses or positive titer)

    • Hepatitis B (three doses AND positive titer)

    • Flu shot (annual requirement)

    • Covid-19

• Proof of Training

  • • BLS (completed during M1 orientation)

    • HIPAA (annual requirement) MED1 course in Canvas

    • Bloodborne Pathogens (annual requirement) MED@ course in Canvas

• Other Requirements

  • PPD/Quantiferon Gold (annual requirement)

  • Urine Drug Screen (Student Health, 314-977-2323, $45). Typically a one time requirement. Some away M4 rotations require repeat/current testing

  • Mask Fit (Student Health, 314-977-2323, $15). One time requirement.

Medical students (SLU along with visiting M4 students) are "cleared" for clinical work by the SOM/Theresa Friederich (theresa.friederich@health.slu.edu). Others (Eg. undergraduate student, medical students from schools other than SLU interested in volunteering and/or clinical observation) are cleared by the medical staff office.

• • If interested in active observation, add your name to the spreadsheet and "tag" Theresa. We will contact her regarding clearance of students enrolled in our pre-clerkship electives

  • Once cleared by Theresa, we will assign you a CG access card

When to obtain access

• • While students are required to complete the above steps prior to working in the clinical environment, EPIC access is not required until the clerkship block. We recommend completion before the pre-clerkship electives (exploring pediatrics, introduction to neonatology, Danis CARES) and before volunteering with Peds HRC. While not required, EPIC access will allow you to preview medical record of patients you will be seeing and will help you get most out of the experience

  • Please complete >30d prior to the start of clerkship block. There is often a rush of students completing this at the last minute with resulting delays. Not having access at the start of your first block is not a good way to start!

How?

• • Canvas MED 3 Course EPIC training module

  • Within a week of module completion you will receive an email from Aimee Walker with EPIC username and password. The login will stay with you throughout your SLU tenure.

Other EMR suggestions

• • Check that your EPIC account is active at least a week prior to needing access. Not logging in for over a month might result in an account being locked due to inactivity. If that happens, contact email Theresa Friederich theresa.friederich@health.slu.edu to request that it is unlocked.

  • Job: STL Student

  • Department: See individual clinical sites

  • Consider downloading EPIC Haiku app before the clerkship year. It allows you to use your phone to check charts (Eg. pending labs) and to obtain images in a HIPPAA compliant format

  • Contacts for troubleshooting: EPIC support (314-644-7345), Theresa Friederich (theresa.friederich@health.slu.edu ), Aimee Walker (aimee.walker@health.slu.edu).