Welcome to the Carle Illinois College of Medicine Student Handbook. We invite you to familiarize yourself with the handbook as you embark on your training. And, as a Carle Illinois student, you will have faculty and staff to support you along the way.
The regulations appearing here are those in effect at the most recent publication and are subject to change without notice. Unless otherwise noted, the rules stated in this Student Handbook apply to all students enrolled at the Carle Illinois College of Medicine.
General Information
About Carle Illinois
Our M.D. Program
Instructions to Update Address & Phone Number
Report Bias Incident
U of I System Statement on Sex Discrimination, Sexual Harassment and Other Sexual Misconduct
We Care – Title IX Support, Response, and Prevention
Requirements for Matriculation
Criminal Background Check
Drug Testing
Faculty Student Compact
Immunizations
Technical Requirements for Matriculation, Progression, and Graduation
Medical Education Policies and Standards
- Academic Integrity
- Academic Promotions and Satisfactory Academic Progress
- Access to Records
- Accommodation
- Appeal Process for Professionalism and Mistreatment
- Areas of Concentration
- Assessment Completion
- Campus Violence Threat Assessment
- Clerkship Grading
- Clinical Electives
- Clinical Learning Attendance
- Clinical Oversight
- Disciplinary Action and Dismissal
- Dress Code
- Elective Credit for Advance Degree
- Emergency Preparedness
- Externship Extramural Elective or Away Rotations Eligibility
- Formative Feedback
- General Learning Environment and Mistreatment
- Grading
- Grievances by Medical Students
- Intellectual Property
- Leave of Absence
- MD Degree Time Limitations
- Medical Student Performance Evaluation (MSPE) for Class of 2022, 2023, and 2024
- Medical Student Performance Evaluation (MSPE) for Class of 2025 and Beyond: Will be updated by 6/28/2021
- Narrative Assessment
- Nondiscrimination
- Operations Under Emergency Conditions
- Paid Training Opportunity
- Phase 1 Attendance
- Phase 1 Remote Participation
- Phase 2 & 3 Electives
- Promotion and Graduation Requirements
- Religious Accommodations
- Remediation Guideline
- Reporting Student Professionalism
- Statement on Professionalism
- Student Contact and Duty Hours
- Student Listservs
- Student Lounge
- Student Participation in Clinical Activities During Epidemics
- Summative Assessment
- USMLE Step 1 and Step 2
- Withdrawal, Temporary Removal, and Suspension
Student Life
Student Wellness and Health
- Counseling and Health
- Drugs and Alcohol
- Drug Testing
- Health and Long-term Disability Insurance
- Immunizations
- Pregnant and Parenting Student Rights and Resources
- Preventing Exposure to Bodily Fluids
- Preventing Health Services Providers from Academically Evaluating Medical Students
- Student Professional Liability Insurance
- Support for Partners and Family
- Tobacco Policy
Tuition and Financial Aid