Undergraduate Admission: Health Requirements

NOTE: This document was generated from the 1995-1997 UIUC Programs of Study. Every effort has been made to ensure accuracy, but be advised that requirements may have changed since this book was published. Errors may have also been introduced in the conversion to a WWW document. Thus for items of importance, it might be wise to seek confirmation from either the paper version or a live human being.

Physical and Mental Health

New students may be required to present evidence of satisfactory physical and mental health to the director of health services. Each admitted applicant will receive a Student Health Report form, which he or she must use to report proof of immunity to certain vaccine-preventable diseases as defined by state law and required by University regulations, as well as any other pertinent medical data, to the director of the McKinley Health Center at Urbana-Champaign. A minor (someone under eighteen years of age at the time of registration) must submit the Student Health Report form with a parent's or guardian's written authorization for the student to receive treatment at the McKinley Health Center. A student who fails to return the completed Student Health Report form by the date shown on the form and who fails to comply by the end of the first term of enrollment is prohibited by state law from subsequent enrollment in the University. Upon the advice of a McKinley Health Center physician, admission or readmission o f a student may be denied until the student is cleared by the McKinley Health Center.

Students transferring from the University of Illinois at Chicago should request that their Student Health Report forms be transferred by the health center on that campus to the McKinley Health Center.

Military personnel may have their Student Health Report forms completed by a military physician.

Tuberculosis Control

New and readmitted students are encouraged to present evidence of freedom from tuberculosis at the McKinley Health Center. All new international students are required to complete a tuberculosis screening at the McKinley Health Center before completing registration.

Final evidence of freedom from tuberculosis is established by either a negative tuberculin skin test performed within the last twelve months by a health care provider in the United States, or a negative tuberculin skin test performed at the McKinley Health Center at Urbana-Champaign prior to registration.

A person who has a positive skin test is required to have a chest X-ray. A person with a known history of positive reaction to the tuberculosis skin test will not be retested, but will require a chest X-ray to show evidence of freedom from active tuberculosis. An individual who has had a chest X-ray performed within the previous twelve months will not require an additional chest X-ray if the previous chest X-ray is obtainable and meets the University's chest X-ray standards. A student with a positive skin test must schedule an appointment in the Tuberculosis Screening Clinic at McKinley Health Center to review his or her health history.

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