Externships/clinicals can provide valuable, real-life experiences, as well as providing networking opportunities that may enhance the student’s opportunity to obtain employment after graduation. Students are required to meet all externship/clinical requirements. Externships/clinicals must be scheduled at the convenience of the externship/clinical site; this means the externship/clinical may not be during normal class hours and could be on weekends or evenings. Also, the externship/clinical may be scheduled any school term or after the student completes all classes. Students are responsible to adjust their schedules to fit into available externship/clinical time slots and are also responsible for transportation to and from the externship/clinical site. The institution will assign students an externship/clinical site. It is the student’s responsibility to be in attendance at the designated times and locations, which may include nights and/or weekends. If any externship/clinical experience may occur beyond a customary and usual commuting distance to the location where the student receives the remainder of the program instruction, students will be informed and agree in writing to the arrangement prior to enrollment. The Institution defines a customary and usual driving distance as sixty (60) miles.
Additionally, different externship/clinical sites will have different requirements. Students should talk to their instructors about specific requirements well in advance of the scheduled externship/clinical. Should you be removed from a site due to misconduct, poor attendance, etc., it will be the student’s responsibility to secure an appropriate replacement site that meets the program requirement. The purpose of an externship/clinical is to enhance the student’s education and employment prospects. Students are not employees and are not paid during their externship/clinical.
In regard to medical externships/clinicals, externship/clinical sites will have specific health requirements with which the student must comply to be eligible to participate. These requirements might include vaccinations against Hepatitis B, or other diseases and/or medical tests, such as tuberculosis skin test. The student is responsible to meet these requirements at the student’s cost prior to the scheduled externship/clinical. To the degree permitted by law and as a requirement of the externship/clinical, the student agrees to indemnify and hold harmless medical externship/clinical sites, their employees and agents and the school and its agents and employers from any and all liability for injuries, diseases, illnesses or adverse medical conditions that might occur during clinical experiences, including but not limited to blood borne pathogen exposures.