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Policy on Confidential Health Counseling

At the Zucker School of Medicine (“School of Medicine”), medical students are able to obtain assistance for sensitive health care and psychiatric or psychological problems through both Hofstra University (“University”) and Northwell Health System (“Health System”) resources. Assistance provided to medical students through these services is confidential.

The University’s Health and Wellness Center and Student Counseling Services are located on the main campus of the University and utilize psychologists and psychology interns unaffiliated with the Zucker School of Medicine, and/or other facilities with which the Zucker School of Medicine has an affiliation agreement. This ensures no current or future involvement of these health, psychiatric or psychological care professionals in any aspect of assessment of student academic performance, advancement or graduation.

The Health System provides a specialty behavioral health service for employed and voluntary physicians that is available to students. Students seeking psychiatric or psychological counseling, or other sensitive health services, may receive those services from a broad array of network providers, as would any employed physician in Health System. These providers have no direct responsibility for evaluating students at any time in their education.

The Physicians Resource Network (PRN), based in the Health System, triages students according to their acute needs, ultimately referring them to physicians who can assist them. Per School of Medicine protocol, the PRN liaison is in frequent contact with the Office of Student Affairs, which confirms that any physician to whom PRN refers a student is not involved in the academic assessment of students at the School of Medicine.

REFERENCES to REGULATIONS and/or OTHER RELATED POLICIES

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Last Revised: 7/2014


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