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Criminal record checks, health examinations and vaccination requirements - Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences

Criminal record checks in courses with compulsory clinical placements

Note that criminal records checks ('police checks') are required for the practical and professional experience placements in courses with clinical placements. You will be required to obtain and pay for a police check prior to undertaking any such placement. If you fail the police check, you may not be able to undertake a placement and in most cases this will mean you cannot complete the requirements of your course. Placements also commonly require that you are available to undertake the placement on a full-time basis and attend your placement for whole days. This special requirement is common to a number of courses in the Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences.

Further information

  • Contact your faculty placement officer or course coordinator for more details specific to your type of placement.
  • Students who have a disability should contact the relevant placement officer within the first week of the year so that appropriate provision can be made for any placements required in that year.

Comprehensive health examinations/vaccinations in courses with clinical placements/internships

Students in the Bachelor of Medicine/Bachelor of Surgery, and those undertaking studies in ambulance and paramedic studies, nursing, nutrition and dietetics, and radiography and medical imaging courses need to comply with confidential tests for immune status (including blood tests and skin tests), receive vaccines and have X-rays where the evidence indicates these are appropriate and there are not specific contra-indications in individual cases.

The faculty recommends that all students accept responsibility for having up-to-date immunisations before commencing their course. Immunisations recommended include diphtheria, tetanus, polio, measles, mumps, rubella, tuberculosis and hepatitis B.

Prospective students should note that upon enrolment, students are provided with detailed written information and, as appropriate, counselling about the effect that HIV or hepatitis B infection may have on the ability of health care workers to practise their profession. Additionally, arrangements will be made by the faculty for students to have a personal consultation early in the first year with a medical practitioner. At this time, a check for each student's immunity to diseases may be conducted and students may be offered advice and counselling about infectious diseases and their personal health.

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