We expect professional conduct at all times during the OPEX experience. This includes professional dress and timely attendance. Importantly, we expect that students will conduct themselves in a professional and caring manner when interacting with patients, families, and colleagues. We hope that you to be truly appreciative to your patients and your preceptors for the clinical learning they provide and be a positive representative of yourself, the profession, and Emory School of Medicine.
Dress Code
- Your student ID should be worn and be visible at all times.
- Your dress should be professional, business casual. No jeans or athletic wear.
- White coats- clean and ironed
- Body art, piercings and tattoos should not be visible or not worn during this experience
- No open-toed shoes
- For Females, skirts/dresses should be a professional length; midriffs should be covered
- Males should wear a collared shirt and tie with slacks.
Attendance
- Attendance is mandatory. Students should be at their sites on the dates and at the times as assigned. Contact your office or preceptor if you are running late or if there is an unexpected absence. You should consider this as your clinical practice. For example, your responsibility to your patients does not stop because there is an upcoming test.
- Clinic requirements are not canceled the week before an exam. Please manage your study time accordingly.
- Only the Dean’s office can grant an “excused” absence. There is a list in the handbook of what kinds of situations constitute valid reasons for an excused absence. The preceptors are not allowed to give students permission to be absent.
- In the event you are ill (and therefore absent) or late, or there is some other irregularity in your attendance or timeliness, please inform Dr. Vohra-Khullar and/or Laquanda Jackson, as well as your preceptor, as soon as possible.
Problems with OPEX assignments
We know that you realize that not everyone will be able to have a clinical site at one of the Emory clinics on main campus. We have tried to keep the travel distance to your sites to within a 25 mile radius of campus. We acknowledge that there is no good, easy or equitable way to make these assignments.
In the past, students have discussed their preceptor concerns with their small group mentors. That is fine. If the student perceives that there is a critical problem with an assignment, he/she is also encouraged to contact Dr. Pamela Vohra-Khullar directly or Ms. Laquanda Jackson at 404-727-5032, to discuss the problem.