Dress Code 

(See your student handbook for additional information and guidelines)

• Your student ID should be worn and be visible at all times.
• Your dress should be professional, business casual.  No jeans
• White coats- clean and pressed
• Body art, piercings and tattoos should not be visible or not worn during this experience
• For Ladies, skirts should be a professional length; midriffs should be covered; stockings should be worn with any open toe shoes; i.e., no sandals.
• Males should wear an appropriate shirt and tie with dress casual 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 that this is your private 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. Bussey-Jones and/or LaQuanda Jackson, as well as your preceptor,  as soon as possible.

Problems with OPEX assignments

We have tried to keep the travel distance to your sites to within a 20 mile radius of campus.  We acknowledge that there is no good, easy or equitable way to make these assignments. We know that you realize that not everyone will be able to have a clinical site at one of the Emory clinics in Decatur. 

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 “real” problem with an assignment, he/she is also encouraged to please contact Dr. Jada Bussey-Jones directly, jcbusse@emory.edu  or Ms. Laquanda Jackson, ljack08@learnlink.emory.edu  at 404-727-5032, to discuss the problem.