ABOUT OUR VOE PROGRAM
It's FLU SEASON - You are required to have a flu vaccine if you are scheduled to shadow between 10/1/2024 - 3/31/2025 and this must be noted on the Health Summary document or a vaccine receipt must be uploaded to the application. If you are exempt, please upload an exemption document from a physician to the application.
The Vanderbilt Observational Experience program allows students and working professionals to learn about careers in health care. This program is strictly observational only, there is no hands-on activity permitted. No observations with physicians will be scheduled on the evenings, weekends, or holidays.
Applicants may request one observational experience per calendar year, not to exceed eight (8) hours. Additional hours may be requested based on school program requirements, however, accommodations may not be feasible and are made on a case-by-case basis and only if a preceptor is confirmed in advance.
Observers are limited in some clinical areas for the safety of patients and observers. No high school students are permitted in the Operating Rooms, Cath Labs, Emergency Departments, Pediatric Intensive Care Units, or the Vanderbilt Psychiatric Hospital.
The VOE program requires at least a one-step TB test completed in the past, it doesn't have to be current. A one-step test is required if you've never had a TB test.
The last section in regard to blood borne pathogens as required by OSHA is not applicable to the VOE Program. You can leave that blank.
If on the day of your observation, you are ill (cold symptoms, fever, etc.), please email and/or call (if you've received a phone number) your preceptor and the VOE@vumc.org to let us know and also reschedule for a later date. If you come to the observation with cold/flu-like symptoms, you will not be able to participate.
