The University of Tennessee - Martin

Services

A wide variety of medical services are available to students including:

Care for acute illnesses
If you are experiencing symptoms of an illness such as fever, sore throat, cough and you wish to receive treatment, please call 731-881-7750 for an appointment.  There is no fee associated with the office visit, but you may be charged a small fee for necessary lab work (strep test, mono test, urinalysis and so on) or medication.  If you are taking any medication, be sure and bring the name and dose with you to the appointment.

Physical exams
Students required to have a physical exam for an academic program or internship may receive this service for a fee of $15.00 plus fees for necessary immunizations or lab work.  During the physical exam, the provider will take a health history, conduct a general exam, measure your blood pressure, pulse, height and weight and obtain any necessary lab work.  She will also discuss any recommended screenings.

Allergy shot administration
Any student to whom a physician has dispensed a desensitizing antigen ("allergy vaccine") for injection may store the vaccine at Student Health Services and receive injections on schedule from the Student Health and Counseling Services’ nurses.

Allergy injections will be given only if written orders and instructions from the prescribing clinician are on file.  Such instructions must include, as an absolute minimum, a clearly intelligible order or dosage schedule for each antigen or mixture, indicating the amount to be administered and the interval between injections.

Patients must supply the serum and maintain primary responsibility for reordering serum. 

Allergy injections will only be given only when a nurse practitioner or physician is present.

Patients must wait 20 minutes or time specified in orders after injection to be monitored for signs and symptoms of adverse reactions.

A charge of $2.00 for one injection and $1.00 for each additional injection will be assessed with each visit unless the student supplies his or her syringes and needles.  Student Health and Counseling Services will store the supplies for the patient.

A student who has received vaccine while at home during a break must present evidence of this IN WRITING from the administering clinician before continuing the injection schedule at Student Health and Counseling Services.

The University of Tennessee at Martin Student Health and Counseling Services reserves the right to decline to administer allergy vaccine, or to discontinue administration once it has been begun, to any student, for any reason, at any time.

The University of Tennessee at Martin and its employees cannot be responsible for adverse consequences of allergy injections administered in compliance with the prescribing physician’s orders, or for loss of vaccine stored at Student Health and Counseling Services