Mandatory Symptom Tracker App – All Students
As we move forward in the recovery phase of the pandemic, and look forward to reintegrating you into the clinical environment, we want to reiterate the critical importance of keeping you safe, and allowing you to keep your patients and colleagues safe. We have been working closely with our Infection Prevention Team, and will continue to do so, in order to align our educational plans with infection prevention precautions. One of the important steps we are taking for the entire student body is a daily tracking mechanism for symptoms that may be early indicators of infection with COVID-19. Below is a description of the ISMMS Student Health Check, a web app that has been developed for this purpose. This web app will allow you to self-screen and direct you to refrain from educational and/or clinical activities when appropriate. It will also allow Student Health to track trends of anonymized and aggregate data in order to identify patterns of infection and guide policy changes.
ISMMS Student Health Check is designed to daily screen for COVID-19 symptoms. It can be accessed from any computer or mobile device. No login is necessary, and you only need to register your device once. No identifying information is required, and one can choose to keep responses to the symptom check anonymous as well. Each day that you complete screening for symptoms, a unique code will be generated which will provide guidance on whether to attend class/work or to stay home.
This daily self-screening is mandatory for all students. Complying with the screening and the resulting guidance is critical to potentially identifying early COVID-19 symptoms and minimizing the exposure to others with whom you will interact; patients, peers, staff, and faculty. It is part of our professional expectation of all students, in the same way that we expect students to behave in an unbiased fashion towards others, or comply with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). Non-compliance with our Infection Prevention precautions—including the app-based daily symptom screening, face coverings, and social distancing,—will be considered a major breach of the school’s professionalism standards.
As physicians we are expected to monitor our behaviors and the behaviors of members of our profession. We need to serve as role models for each other and as a community reinforce the importance of our contributions to infection prevention.
Class of 2021
Emergency Kit and iPad Distribution
ATTENTION BLOCK 0 students-only. All other students completing clerkships will be provided a separate pick-up schedule soon.
Be sure to stop by during your assigned time on Thursday June 18, 1:00-5:00pm in lab room 12-62 in Annenberg.
Students are divided alphabetically into the following 4 groups and we highly encourage students to come during their assigned hour to avoid crowds, for everyone’s safety. However, you are welcome to come anytime between 1 and 5pm.
- 1-2pm: last names starting with A-F
- 2-3pm: last names starting with G-M
- 3-4pm: last names starting with N-Sch
- 4-5pm: last names starting with Se-Z
Compliance
Thanks for your patience as we navigate a period of change with compliance requirements along with the launch of the academic year.
We need all your help to get these compliance requirements done as soon as possible. We have tried to make this as clear and straightforward as possible. Follow the links below to the checklists and complete by the stated deadline. REMINDER - when you are getting mask fit on campus, please keep your masks!
Please access blackboard for your checklists or click HERE.
For questions, please email compliance@mssm.edu.
Transportation
Our goal is to ensure that you are safe and aware of the options available to you in order to be successful in your training here. In the setting of COVID-19, we want to provide you comprehensive information related to all risk factors as we try to navigate this new environment before there is a vaccine available. We know that every form of transportation carries some risk. Our goal is to mitigate that risk by adhering to face coverings, social distancing, and proper hand hygiene, regardless of how we travel from place to place. Based on all available evidence, there is no data on the relative risk of public transportation vs. shuttles vs. shared ride programs. We are offering you several options for travel to your clinical training sites.
While public transportation is currently considered a safe option per statewide Phase 1 guidelines, our plan for the coming months will include the following.
Continued use of a shared ride program is available:
- For Block 0 and Block 1, students will have access to utilize our UBER rideshare program for all clerkship and clinical sites, without a time restriction.
Utilize your UBER for Business profile under the ISMMS UME account:
Class of 2021 students should already have access to the UBER account from last Academic Year. Please check your UBER app prior to taking your first ride to ensure your account is still active.
As always, students must maintain integrity while using the shared ride program. Usage is solely permitted for required travel to and from clerkship and clinical sites.
For questions about the rideshare program, or if you need assistance with setting up your profile, please reach out to clerkships@mssm.edu.
Enhanced scheduling of existing health system shuttle buses for students, trainees and employees:
- Additional shuttles through the Department of Medical Education to specific sites and at times that map to clerkship start and end times.
Students may also opt to use the subway, walk, ride bikes or scooters with appropriate safety measures taken.
We will continue to keep you updated as the city and state move through the various phases of reopening; and as the environment changes. If you have questions or experience any difficulty with your travel, please contact clerkships@mssm.edu.
Step 2CK Study Resource Needs
Use this form to tell MedEd the resources you need for your USMLE timeline. This is critical and time sensitive. We need responses by June 22, 2020 in order to update our subscription order.
UWorld will be extended for those who indicate this preference, which will not be an expenditure on your part. If you prefer, you can request reimbursement for the AMBOSS, Kaplan, or USMLE Rx question banks, not to exceed 500$. If you opt out of UWorld renewal, you will be expected to pay for your chosen question bank out of pocket, and submit receipts for reimbursement. You may not request both UWorld extension and an alternate question bank.
Class of 2022
Tonight’s Town Hall It was great to see just under half of the class tonight and know that many of you are nearing your Step 1 test date. We wish you the best on the exam and are all thrilled to see you transition into the clinical environment.
Click HERE for the recording and here for the slide deck.
Compliance Thanks for your patience as we navigate a period of change with compliance requirements along with the launch of the academic year. We need all your help to get these compliance requirements done as soon as possible. We have tried to make this as clear and straightforward as possible. Follow the links below to the checklists and complete by the stated deadline. REMINDER - when you are getting mask fit on campus, please keep your masks!
Please access blackboard for your checklists or click HERE. For questions, please email compliance@mssm.edu.
Transportation
Our goal is to ensure that you are safe and aware of the options available to you in order to be successful in your training here. In the setting of COVID-19, we want to provide you comprehensive information related to all risk factors as we try to navigate this new environment before there is a vaccine available. We know that every form of transportation carries some risk. Our goal is to mitigate that risk by adhering to face coverings, social distancing, and proper hand hygiene, regardless of how we travel from place to place. Based on all available evidence, there is no data on the relative risk of public transportation vs. shuttles vs. shared ride programs. We are offering you several options for travel to your clinical training sites.
While public transportation is currently considered a safe option per statewide Phase 1 guidelines, our plan for the coming months will include the following:
Continued use of a shared ride program is available:
- For Module 1A/AB, students in the Class of 2022 will have access to utilize our UBER rideshare program for all clerkship and clinical sites, without a time restriction.
Utilize your UBER for Business profile under the ISMMS UME account:
- Class of 2022 students will receive a welcome email from UBER with instructions on how to activate your profile.
- As always, students must maintain integrity while using the shared ride program. Usage is solely permitted for required travel to and from clerkship and clinical sites.
- For questions about the rideshare program, or if you need assistance with setting up your profile, please reach out to clerkships@mssm.edu.
Enhanced scheduling of existing health system shuttle buses for students, trainees and employees:
- Additional shuttles through the Department of Medical Education to specific sites and at times that map to clerkship start and end times.
Students may also opt to use the subway, walk, ride bikes or scooters with appropriate safety measures taken.
We will continue to keep you updated as the city and state move through the various phases of reopening; and as the environment changes. If you have questions or experience any difficulty with your travel, please contact clerkships@mssm.edu.
Step 1 Study Resource Renewal
Use this FORM to tell MedEd the resources you need for your USMLE timeline. This is critical and time sensitive. We need responses by June 22, 2020.
We will use this form to renew your UWorld subscription. This can be done with no expenditure on your part. If you prefer, you can request reimbursement for the AMBOSS, Kaplan, or USMLE Rx question banks, not to exceed 500$. If you opt out of UWorld renewal, you will be expected to pay for your chosen question bank out of pocket, and submit receipts for reimbursement. You may not request both UWorld extension and an alternate question bank.
Class of 2023
No updates tonight.