Immunizations

The University of Colorado School of Medicine utilizes MyRecordTracker for the maintenance of student immunization records. Students receive an email that directs them to upload their immunizations, the service reviews and approves immunizations for completeness. The school is sent a report of student compliance.

Newly accepted student should have all documents of immunizations required readily available, to be uploaded once they receive the MyRecordTracker activation links.

COVID-19 

The University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus is ending its COVID-19 vaccine requirement, effective July 1, 2023. The new campus policy follows the decision by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to lift the requirement that employees at health care facilities be vaccinated against the virus. Masks also will no longer be required by the university. Policies at clinical sites and for individual campus units may continue to require vaccination against COVID-19, so students working in those sites should follow the policies of those sites or units.

MEASLES, MUMPS, RUBELLA (MMR)  

Documentation of 2 shots or serologies is required.  Measles, mumps and rubella require individual titers.  List either the two dates of the MMRs received or the individual titer dates and results. The first MMR must have been received on or after your first birthday and there must be at least 28 days between the first and second MMR. If received prior to your first birthday or there is less than 28 days between the two MMRs received, you are required to have another MMR or show proof of positive titers.  

HEPATITIS B

All students need to have received the Hep B 3 shot series and must have an antibody titer within the past year. If you are in the process of receiving your Hep B immunizations for the first time, you are required to have the three-shot series and also provide the date and result of a positive HBSAB titer 1 month after the third dose. If the 3-dose series is needed, then the doses should be in a 0, 1, 6 month interval and then a titer done 1 month after the last dose. If immunity is not present, then another 3-dose series must be done followed by another titer. If after 6 doses no immunity is present, then the student is considered a “non-responder” and no further testing or immunization is required. However, a doctor's note indicating this is required.

POLIO

List the dates of the four-shot childhood series. Adults, who had 1 or 2 IPV doses and no documentation of childhood series, will need to complete a total of 3 doses. Therefore, if they had 2, they would need an additional 1 adult catch-up dose. International students are required to get the 3 dose series. 

VARICELLA

TETANUS

Primary vaccination, a tetanus-diphtheria-pertussis (Tdap) is required for all healthcare workers renewable every 10 years.

FOR INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS: three documented doses of TD are required. Primary vaccination of previously unvaccinated adults consists of three doses of adult tetanus-diphtheria toxoid (Td): 4-6 weeks should separate the first and second dose; the third dose should be administered 6-12 months after the second. Tdap is also required as the final dose or within 5 years of entry. 

TUBERCULIN SKIN TEST (Required Mantoux PPD)

All students are required to have a PPD Annually. All skin tests need to be read within 48 -72 hours or another test must be done.  Please list the dates and results for all PPD’s received. Instead of a PPD, it is acceptable to annually provide negative QuantiFERON gold blood test results for students who had a Bacilli Calmette-Guerin (BCG) vaccine as a child.

If the PPD is positive (10mm and above) a chest x-ray is required, including the x-ray date along with a copy of the physician’s report  to x-ray. Reports older than one year will be accepted as long as you have completed the full INH treatment and have been symptom free for one year. If you did not complete the full treatment, you are required to provide negative QuantiFERON gold blood test results annually.

INFLUENZA

Students are required to provide proof of immunization annually on MyRecordTracker, no later than November 1st.

Office of Admissions Contact Information 

• Jeffrey SooHoo, MD, MBA
  Assistant Dean of Admissions 
• Karina Goodwin, MA
  Admissions Manager
• Lamar Cherry, BA
  ​Senior Admissions Specialist

Location
Building 500, First Floor
Mailing Address: 13001 E. 17th Place, Mailstop C292
Aurora, CO 80045
Phone: 303-724-6407
Fax: 303-724-8028
Email: MD-Admissions@cuanschutz.edu