Support Services

Academic and Accessibility Support

The Office of Academic Success and Accessibility is committed to providing equitable access to learning opportunities for all students with documented disabilities (e.g., mental health, attentional, learning, chronic health, sensory, or physical). Accommodations are not provided retroactively and students are encouraged to register as soon as they begin their academic program. TTUHSC El Paso encourages students to access all resources available for consistent support and accommodations.

Please contact the Office of Academic Success and Accessibility to schedule a confidential conversation about the process for requesting reasonable accommodations in the classroom and laboratory settings.

The information below explains the rights and responsibilities of students with disabilities as well as the obligations TTUHSC El Paso has to provide academic adjustments, auxiliary aids, and/or services. Each student receiving academic adjustments, auxiliary aids, and/or services through the Office of Academic Success and Accessibility is required to sign a student agreement, which outlines their responsibility for receiving academic adjustments.

Students with disabilities have a RIGHT to:

• Equal access to courses, programs, services, and activities offered through TTUHSC El Paso.
• Confidentiality of all information pertaining to the individual’s disability, except as disclosures are necessary to provide accommodation or are required or permitted by law.
• Accessible formats of information if reasonably available.
• Equal opportunity to learn through reasonable accommodations, academic adjustments, and/or auxiliary aids and services.

Students with disabilities have a RESPONSIBILITY to:

• Meet qualifications and maintain essential institutional technical standards for courses, services and activities.
• To self-disclose as an individual with a disability when an academic adjustment, auxiliary aids and/or service is needed.
• To follow published procedures and seek information, counsel, and assistance in a timely manner to request accommodations and services.
• Complete and submit the Self-Disclosure and Accommodation Request forms to the Office of Academic Success and Accessibility.
• Provide recent documentation from an appropriate professional detailing how a student’s disability limits participation in courses, programs, services, or activities and provides support for each accommodation request.
• Discuss the accommodation(s) with the instructor during the first week of class or rotation and/or within one week of being granted the accommodation.
• Inform the Office of Academic Success and Accessibility if the student elects not to use an approved accommodation. An Accommodation Waiver form will need to be completed.
• Renew accommodations each semester (GGHSON, GSBS) or year (PLFSOM). A Renewal of Accommodations form will need to be completed each semester/year that the student wishes to continue accommodations.
• Promptly inform the Office of Academic Success and Accessibility of any problems with the manner in which an accommodation(s) is being provided.

Student Counseling Services

TTUHSC El Paso Student Counseling Services are provided through students’ payment of the Student Services Fee. These resources are provided to enhance wellness by providing you, and any dependents you have, the opportunity to manage life’s problems before they become serious and impair your academic and professional performance.

Student Counseling Services include:

• Short-term counseling sessions (Individual, Couple, and Family Counseling)
• Providers in El Paso and via telepsychiatry so that you can choose the right provide for you and make your own appointment.
• Confidentiality assured. TTUHSC El Paso and the GSBS receive no information related to student counseling services.
• 24-hour crisis line - Emergence Health Network: 915-779-1800.

Student Counseling Services Providers

Emergencies

In case of an emergency, students may go to any emergency room, or the ones listed below, at their own expense.

The two numbers above 915-544-1200 and 915-532-2202 serve as a 24-hour crisis line, available to any student or family member, whether or not the student is currently receiving counseling services.

Libraries

The TTUHSC El Paso Libraries serve the Paul L. Foster School of Medicine, the Gayle Greve Hunt School of Nursing, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Woody L. Hunt School of Dental Medicine, and health professionals throughout the U.S.-Mexico Border area. The TTUHSC El Paso libraries are located as follows:

The Delia Montes-Gallo Library is located on the first floor of the Academic Education Center (AEC) building across from Texas Tech Physicians of El Paso.
Room 103, MSC 28001
4801 Alberta Avenue,
El Paso, TX 79905
915-25-4315

The Doris F. Eisenberg Library is located on the second floor of the Medical Education Building (MEB).
Room 2100, MSC 28001
5001 El Paso Drive,
El Paso, TX 79905
915-215-4306

The Medical Science Building II (MSB II)
Room 1C114, MSC 28001
137 Rick Francis St.
El Paso, TX 79905
915-215-4681

For hours of operation and additional services, please visit the libraries’ website.

Study Space

A large number of individual and group teaching rooms can be found throughout the Medical Education Building (MEB), Medical Science Building I (MSB I), and the Medical Science Building II (MSB II). The TTUHSC El Paso libraries have student study spaces available. During the day, group teaching rooms are used to conduct university business, but these rooms are available to students after 5:00pm and are designed for groups of 3 or more students. All study space is shared by TTUHSC El Paso faculty, staff, students, TTUHSC El Paso visitors, and residents.

The Diversity, Inclusion, and Global Health (DIGH) Student Lounge

The DIGH student lounge was built to provide a comfortable area for all TTUHSC El Paso students to interact, network, and unwind in an inclusive environment. It is the only on-campus student lounge open to students from all TTUHSC El Paso students. Providing free services, such as, WiFi, gaming systems, a big-screen TV with DVD player, a refrigerator, a microwave, and a toaster. Drinks and snacks are also available. The student lounge also houses the DIGH library of books and films, which are readily available to check out.

J. Robert and Sherry Brown Student Lounge

The student lounge and wellness center are located on the 1st floor of the Medical Education Building (MEB). The J. Robert and Sherry Brown Student Lounge is available to students 24 hours a day seven days a week by using your ID badge for access. Faculty and residents are prohibited from its use.

Quiet Room

The quite room is located in the Doris F. Eisenberg Library of the Medical Education Building (MEB). The quiet room has lounge chairs and is for students to rest, meditate, do yoga or even take a nap.