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Clinical Perfusion, MS: Technical Standards

Applies to

This policy applies to Clinical Perfusion student in the College of Health Professions.

Policy Statement

SUNY Upstate Medical University complies with Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 and the Americans with Disabilities Act. All applicants and students are held to the same academic and technical standards of admissions and training. Reasonable accommodations will be made for qualified individuals with a disability. However, the student is expected to perform these functions in a reasonably independent manner.

Technical Standards

The clinical perfusionist is the individual who operates extracorporeal circulation equipment during any medical situation where it is necessary to support or temporarily replace a patient’s circulatory or respiratory function and other procedures requiring the use of extracorporeal systems.

Clinical Perfusion students are held accountable for the following Technical Standards:

  1. Observation:
    1. Students and candidates for admission must have sufficient visual capacity to:
      1. Visualize information presented in images from paper, slides, and video.
      2. Observe laboratory and/or lecture demonstrations.
      3. Observe patients accurately at a distance, and close at hand, with or without standard medical equipment.
  2. Communication:
    1. Students and candidates for admission should be able to speak intelligibly, hear sufficiently, elicit and transmit patient information in oral and written format to members of the healthcare team, and communicate effectively and sensitively with patients.
    2. They must possess demonstrated reading skills at a level sufficient to accomplish curricular requirements and provide clinical care to patients.
    3. They must possess excellent verbal and written communication skills in the English language.
  3. Sensory and Motor Skills:
    1. Students and candidates for admission must have functional sensory and motor skills to lift, push, and carry clinical equipment in a safe and controlled manner.
    2. They must possess functional motor skills to demonstrate basic clinical skills related to the use of extracorporeal equipment, circuitry, and ancillary clinical patient care devices and equipment.
    3. They must possess functional sensory and motor skills to execute quick and purposeful movements during emergency treatment of patients.
  4. Intellectual:
    1. Critical thinking is a necessary skill for Clinical Perfusionists. Students and candidates for admission must have the intellectual capacity to measure, calculate, reason, analyze, integrate, and synthesize information from various modalities to effectively evaluate extracorporeal equipment and treat patients.
    2. Students and candidates for admission must have the ability to comprehend spatial relationships of structures and three-dimensional models.
    3. Students and candidates for admission must have the ability to comprehend relationships between patient care parameters and anticipate cause and effect responses based on their actions and inactions.
    4. They must be able to learn through a variety of teaching modalities including classroom lecture, cooperative learning, small group activities, medical simulation and laboratory exercises, individual and group presentations, and the use of technology assisted learning.
    5. They must be able to make rapid decisions in life threatening situations where problem solving and critical thinking are required.
  5. Behavioral and Social Attributes:
    1. Students must at all times demonstrate the emotional stability to be able to exercise good judgment, prompt completion of all responsibilities attendant to the care and treatment of patients, and the development of mature, sensitive, and effective relationships with patients and other members of the healthcare team. They must:
      1. Problem solve in a timely manner.
      2. Tolerate physically taxing workloads.
      3. Function effectively under stress.
      4. Have the ability to adapt to changing environments,
      5. Display flexibility, and learn to function in an environment of uncertainty inherent in the clinical practice of cardiovascular perfusion.
      6. Treat all patients, families, colleagues, and other members of the healthcare team with dignity and respect.
      7. Demonstrate honesty, integrity, dedication, compassion, nondiscrimination, and motivation.
      8. Be able to accept constructive criticism and respond appropriately with an acceptable modification of behavior.

Definitions

Technical Standards are a set of standards necessary for a student to be able to succeed in the curriculum.

Related Information

  • Student Code of Conduct
  • College of Health Professions Program Website

Policy History


Review Date:

Change Description:

6/4/20

Policy from Student Handbook Website reformatted for MCN Policy System. Policy reviewed and approved by the Dean’s Advisory Council

5/19/22

Policy reviewed and reapproved by the Dean Katherine Beissner with no changes

12/5/24

Policy reviewed, changed Cardiovascular to Clinical Perfusionist and approved by the Dean’s Advisory Council

 

 

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