Registry
Admissions
Health on Entry
Admission to some of our courses, and to some
of the professions for which we provide training, may be precluded
by certain medical conditions. In completing a UCAS or Queen Margaret
University application form, applicants are obliged to include
information regarding any medical condition, past or present, which
might affect their participation on a course.
If you have any doubt about the effect that
a medical or health-related condition might have on your application,
it is important that you contact the Admissions Office or the relevant
course Admissions Tutor
for advice.
Specific Course Information
i. BSc (Hons) Dietetics
Applicants for this course are made aware
that if they have had Anorexia Nervosa or Bulimia Nervosa either
within the two years preceding entry to the BSc Dietetics leading
to State Registration in Dietetics, or within the two years preceding
their application for a clinical placement during the course, they
may not be offered a clinical placement. The Institute of Occupational
Health Officers has considered the matter and has taken the view
that student Dietitians with these eating disorders may place themselves
and their patients at risk.
The successful completion of the clinical
training placement is mandatory for State Registered Dietitians
and the award of the relevant degree.
Queen Margaret University cannot accept
liability to students if they are unable to start a clinical placement
on the grounds of Anorexia Nervosa or Bulimia Nervosa or other eating
disorders.
While we will take all reasonable steps to
transfer students who are refused a clinical training placement
on the ground of Anorexia Nervosa or Bulimia Nervosa on to other
courses we cannot guarantee to do so. Transfers are subject to students
being suitably qualified to enter other courses and places being
available for them.
Our Department of Dietetics, Nutrition and
Biological Sciences strongly recommend, but do not insist, that
students undertake an immunisation programme against Hepatitis B.
ii. BSc/BSc (Hons) Podiatry, BSc
(Hons) Nursing, BSc Community Health Nursing
The Government's Department of Health has
recommended that universities ensure that students who undertake
exposure-prone invasive procedures as part of their practical work,
demonstrate evidence of their immune status to Hepatitis B.
We believe that we have a duty to ensure that
applicants are fully aware of the implications of this decision.
In view of the recommendation and in the student's own interest,
it is now a condition of admission for those Nursing and Podiatry
courses which involve clinical placements that students will be
required to embark on an immunisation programme, unless they are
already able to demonstrate immunity. Students under 18 will need
to obtain parental permission to be inoculated. The programme will
involve injections on a selected day at the start of the course
and then one month and six months later. Serological tests will
also be taken three months after the injections. Depending on whether
the response to the vaccine is moderate or good,booster doses will
be required 3 or 5 years later.
A leaflet and explanatory letter are sent
out to students in the July or August before they start their course.
iii. BSc (Hons) Physiotherapy
Our Department of Physiotherapy strongly advise
that students should be vaccinated against Tuberculosis before starting
the course. This is not a compulsory requirement but is something
which the Department recommend as a precautionary measure.
Similarly, the Department strongly advise
but do not insist that students undertake an immunisation programme
against Hepatitis B.
iv. BSc (Hons) Diagnostic Radiography
/ BSc (Hons) Therapeutic Radiography
Our Department of Podiatry and Radiography
strongly recommend, but do not insist, that students on either of
these courses undertake an immunisation programme against Hepatitis
B.
IMPORTANT INFORMATION
Students starting a course with us are strongly
advised to ensure that they are immunised against Group C meningococcal
infection beforehand. This is with the view to protecting students
against Group C meningitis and septicaemia.
If you have any concerns about this we would
suggest that you discuss them with your own doctor. If you wish
to be immunised, you should see your doctor at least 6 weeks before
your course starts so that you have protection at the outset.
A Government leaflet about immunisation is
sent out to new students before the start of their course. Further
information can be found at the official government website www.meningitis.org
including copies of the leaflet in various other languages.
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