Student Health

To achieve our mission, the College has affiliation agreements and contracts with several healthcare facilities throughout the region to provide KYCOM students with clinical education experiences. Because of both patient contact and potential exposure to infectious material from patients during these clinical experiences, KYCOM students have the potential for exposure to (and possible transmission of) vaccine -preventable diseases. 

Osteopath Students are included in the definition of nonpaid health-care personnel (HCP), and therefore included in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Immunization of Health-Care Personnel: Recommendations of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP). It is therefore incumbent on the College, and required by our clinical education partners, that all KYCOM students provide documentation of required immunizations and titers prior to matriculation at KYCOM and throughout their KYCOM enrollment. This documentation is required to be uploaded into the eValue website for dissemination to our clinical affairs department and to clinical education sites throughout the students’ enrollment at KYCOM. 

Please see the following chart below for the KYCOM requirements, which are based on ACIP and Commonwealth of Kentucky recommendations. 

Please contact Angel Hamilton in clinical affairs with any questions. ahamilto@upike.edu or 606-218-5439.

Verified Credentials is the place to get your background check completed.  Once completed you must upload the results onto your eValue file.   

Below is the document to help guide you through this process.