Clerkship Phase Orientations and Credentialing
MS3 and MS4 Orientation is a Graded Activity, therefore a health care provider’s note on the healthcare provider’s letterhead or printed from their electronic health record is required if Orientation is missed. The absence is subject to the institution’s Missed Graded Activities Policy.
All students rotating at clinics and/or hospitals must comply with the following requirements at least a month previous to attending the rotation. All documents or copies of the document must be provided to the Office of Student Affairs on or before the due date requested:
- Active Basic Life Support (BLS) card from the American Heart Association (not Red Cross or any other)
- HIPPA training certificate (done through TechTraining Site)
- Background Check (CBC) (HireRight link provided to students)
- Mask Fitting (N-95 Respirator) (Set up by OSA by calendar invitation)
- Updated Immunization Records (Provided to Occupational Health)
- Drug Test (Set up by OSA by calendar invitation)
- Fingerprint Report (Through IdentoGO)
- Community Wide Orientation (Through EPCC)
Special Events
White Coat Ceremony
The White Coat Ceremony owes its beginnings to the Arnold P. Gold Foundation, whose mission is to foster humanism in medicine. The “White Coat Ceremony” is designed to clarify for students, prior to their entrance into the medical community that a physician’s responsibility is to both take care of patients and also to care about patients. In other words, doctors should “care” as well as “cure”. It was initiated for the entering class of the College of Physicians & Surgeons of Columbia University in New York City on August 20, 1993. The Office of Student Affairs will contact the incoming first year medical students prior to and during orientation with the details of the ceremony.
Match Day
Senior medical students secure residency positions for post-graduate training through a process called the Match. Students enroll in the National Resident Match Program (NRMP), a program that is similar to the match students participate in for admission to medical school.
Through the Electronic Residency Application Service (ERAS), students apply to various residency programs in the fall of their 4th year. Residencies invite students for interviews and in February, students and residency programs submit their rank order lists to the NRMP. Results of the Match are released the third Friday in March. The Student Affairs Office will plan an “envelope opening” ceremony for that day, as well as celebration events.
Commencement and Convocation:
Each year in May our medical student graduates, family, friends, and the El Paso community proudly celebrate another class of competent and compassionate graduates who will carry on the FSOM tradition of quality, patient-centered healthcare and research. Degrees are awarded to those who have successfully completed all requirements established by the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center El Paso and the faculty. During these ceremonies two very important awards for accademic excelence and achievement are presented by our President and Dean. The first is The Gold Headed Cane Award, which is a long-standing tradition in medicine begun by the Royal College of Physicians in London in 1689. The College selected a physician to carry the cane who they deemed to be an outstanding clinician, and exemplified the ultimate in consideration for patient care. The tradition was brought to America in 1919 and now continues with our own tradition at TTUHSC El Paso, Paul L. Foster School of Medicine. The recipient is selected jointly by students and faculty as the individual who best exemplifies those attributes that are most desirable in the competent and caring physician. And the second is The Dean’s Highest Academic Achievement Award which is given to the student who has achieved the most honors grades in required clerkships during years three and four, as well as the highest average for USMLE Step 1 and 2 tests.
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