TO:                   All Faculty and Students
FROM:              Myra Rosenstein, M.D., Medical Director
                        University Health Service
DATE:               Fall  2005
                 

 If a student is evaluated in the University Health Service for an illness, we will provide medical excuses from classes missed or to be missed for two reasons only:

• in those cases in which the student/patient is at risk of exposing the illness to others

• and/or hampering his/her own recovery from the illness. 

 If a student has an appointment that was scheduled during the time of a class or has already missed some classes, we will only give documentation to the student/patient that (s)he was seen in our medical facility and not that (s)he should have been absent from a particular class.

 If a professor wants to document that a student/patient was seen in our department, she/he may call our appointment center at X21926.  The only information that will be released is the validation that the student had an appointment in our office.

 We have formalized this policy for the following reason:  In the past, during the course of the semester and especially during peak times of illness, students would often come to us and make an appointment just to receive a medical excuse for a class missed or about to be missed.  This severely bottlenecked our already limited appointments and affects our ability to appropriately schedule students who truly need our assistance.

 The byproduct of this policy will hopefully be that students will receive excuses from our office for medically indicated reasons and not miss class except when necessary. 

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