School of Medicine: Launchpad

You will need these documents when you are in St Andrews:

• Passport
• Driving licence or an alternative formal piece of identification with your address
  (a bank statement is a good example)
• Birth certificate (not a copy)

Please remember to bring copies of any documentation related to your past vaccinations. Students are encouraged to keep this record to prove their immunisation history through their studies and working life. If you have missed any scheduled immunisations and your situation allows please catch up with these prior to starting at St Andrews. In addition, students are strongly recommended to demonstrate evidence of or take vaccination for BCG, Hepatitis B, Varicella, Influenza and Covid.

Guidance is that all healthcare workers, which includes medical students, should be up to date with their routine immunisations, e.g. tetanus, diphtheria, polio and MMR. The MMR vaccine is especially important in the context of the ability of healthcare workers/medical students to transmit measles, mumps or rubella infections to vulnerable groups. While healthcare workers/medical students may need MMR vaccination for their own benefit, they should also be immune to measles, mumps and rubella in order to assist in protecting patients. Satisfactory evidence of protection would include documentation of having received two doses of MMR or having had positive antibody tests for measles, mumps and rubella.

In certain circumstances students may require to be screened for TB. This would include students who have travelled from high risk TB countries (Countries or distinct parts of countries characterized by a high burden of TB incidence >100/100 000 in the population), have been in contact with TB or are exhibiting symptoms associated with an active TB infection.

Prior to the administration of the recommended BCG (TB) immunisation, all students will require a Mantoux skin test to establish any past infection (latent or active).