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Your health requirements must be up-to-date in Health Services no later than 30 days before the rotation start date. Check your health record and compare it to the clerkship site requirements. You can request a copy of your immunization report from Health Services, and have it automatically sent to your NYMC email address.

All clinical sites require:

  • Up-to-date (within one year) medical history and physical exam.
  • Up-to-date (within one year) TB screening (Tuberculin skin test or Quantiferon blood test) (history of positive test: CXR post-testing date required). For special requirements, see the table below. Tuberculin skin tests require the lot number and expiration date of PPD.
  • With the exception of sites with special requirements listed in the table below, all other requirements were completed at matriculation and Transition to Clerkship.

Contact health services for test prescriptions, TB screening, or if a new N95 fit test is required by the site.

Urine toxicology: Unless the clinical rotation hospital is performing urine toxicology, testing must be performed at Westchester Medical Center (WMC) Occupational Health Center, as tests are not covered by health insurance and must be performed as chain of custody testing. WMC Occupational Health Center, located in the Taylor Pavilion Room D-109, will perform urine toxicology at no charge to NYMC students. Call (914) 493-8580 or email ohc@wmchealth.org to schedule an appointment. Please leave some ideal appointment times and dates. You should hear back within 48 hours.

Additional requirements for specific clinical sites:

Hospital 

Specific Additional Requirements
Columbia
  1. Hepatitis C antibody within 6 months 
  2. Quantiferon within 6 months
  3. Columbia Physical Exam Form: Your examining physician MUST Complete this form.
    Columbia Pre-Registration Clinical Form: Health Services completes this immunization form.
Good Samaritan
  1. Urine Toxicology 
  2. Quantiferon within 3 months OR 2 TSTs, one within 3 months, one within 12 months
Harlem
  1. Urine Toxicology
  2. If no HBV vaccines on file, must submit Hepatitis B virus surface Antigen 
Hoboken (CarePoint)
  1. Urine toxicology
Lenox Hill (Northwell)
  1. Urine toxicology
Lincoln
  1. HBV surface Antigen
Mount Sinai at Miami
  1. Urine toxicology
Northern Westchester (Northwell)
  1. Urine toxicology
Phelps (Northwell)
  1. Urine toxicology
RUMC (Richmond)
  1. Urine toxicology within 3 months
  2. Quantitative titers for measles, mumps, rubella, and varicella, plus an HBV surface Antigen result.
  3. The student and the student’s physician must complete the physical exam form given to the student by RUMC. 
  4. Health Services sends the student a copy of the  NYMC Immunization record, which the student uploads in accordance with RUMC instructions. 
  5. Within 12 months of the start date, a two-step TST or a Quantiferon blood test.
St. Joseph’s
  1. Urine toxicology
  2. Quantitative titers for measles, mumps, rubella, and varicella 
  3. Hepatitis B virus surface antigen
  4. Hepatitis C antibody
Ulster (Nuvance Health)
  1. Urine toxicology within 30 days 
  2. Quantiferon or two-step TST within 3 months
Yuma
  1. Urine toxicology 
  2. N95 fit test within 12 months 
  3. Quantiferon or two-step TST within 12 months (14 -28 days between TST) 
  4. The State of Arizona requires the following for Tuberculin skin tests:

Date placed, time, and by whom
Results in mm only
Date read, time, and by whom
Lot number and expiration date required