Clinic hours are 8:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. and 1:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. Clinic sessions are 9:00 a.m. to 11:45 a.m. and 1:00 p.m. to 3:45 p.m. Every effort should be made to have all electronic/evaluation forms completed, procedure codes entered, session notes completed, and authorized/approved by the attending faculty. Students should turn in instruments for sterilization within the allotted clinic time. Organized and efficient time management builds patient confidence.
Students are not permitted to provide any clinical treatment outside regular clinic periods without specific permission from a faculty member and that faculty member must be present in the clinic. Students may bring their patients back into the clinical area 5 minutes before the clinic session begins with the expressed verbal permission of a faculty member on the floor. Treating patients without direct faculty supervision is a serious infraction of COD clinic policy resulting in the filing of a Professionalism Concerns Report (PCR). The PCR will be given to the Assistant Dean for Clinical Affairs, the Director for Quality Assurance, the Director of Compliance, and the Dean of Student Affairs. There will be a loss of clinic privileges for no less than 1 week, resulting in a loss of RVUs for that week.
