Immunizations

The University of Colorado Anschutz School of Medicine utilizes MyRecordTracker and Complio 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 students should have all documents of immunizations required readily available, to be uploaded once they receive the Complio activation links.

COVID-19 

The University of Colorado Anschutz ended 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

You must submit a positive Varicella titer or 2 doses of the Varicella vaccine. Please list the date (year) you had varicella (chicken pox), or the titer date and result or dates vaccine received with proof. A negative titer requires two vaccines placed one month apart.

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.

TUBERCULOSIS (TB) SCREENING

Upon matriculation, each student must submit either a negative IGRA test (QuantiFERON Gold or T-SPOT) or a PPD skin test. We prefer students to complete an IGRA test (QuantiFERON Gold or T-SPOT) though if your insurance does not cover this, we will accept a PPD skin test. If completing a PPD skin test upon matriculation, a 2-step PPD skin test must be submitted for the first year, before any 1-step PPD skin will be accepted for any following years. All skin tests must be read within 48-72 hours, or another test must be done. Additionally, the 2-step skin testing must be separated by 1-3 weeks. Dates and results of the testing will need to be submitted. A negative IGRA blood test is preferred for students who have had a Bacilli Calmette-Guerin (BCG) vaccine as a child. Each year, you must submit a new negative IGRA blood test or PPD skin test.

If your PPD is positive (10mm and above) or IGRA blood test is positive, a chest x-ray is required along with an initial clinical evaluation with a provider to rule out active TB disease, unless documentation is provided of completion of an approved treatment regimen (full INH or Rifampin treatment) for latent tuberculosis infection. If you have been diagnosed with latent tuberculosis infection but do not complete an approved treatment regimen, you will need to submit a clinical assessment with a provider annually to continue to rule out active TB disease. If you provide a negative chest x-ray result and proof of full course accepted treatment for tuberculosis, no further screening will be required unless there is suspected new exposure or symptoms consistent with tuberculosis.

INFLUENZA

Students are required to provide proof of immunization annually on MyRecordTracker or Complio, no later than November 1st. If a student receives an exemption for the influenza vaccination they will be required to wear a mask in all curricular settings during influenza season.

Office of Admissions Contact Information 

• Tyler Coyle, MD, MS
  Assistant Dean of Admissions 
• Melanie Trinkwald, MA
  Admissions and Student Affairs Manager
• Lamar Cherry, BA
  ​Principal Admissions Professional
• Megan Schiltz, MS
  ​Admissions Coordinator

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