1. (a) This section applies to all students enrolled in health-related courses, which will involve direct patient contact in medical or dental care facilities. This includes all medical interns, residents, fellows, nursing students, and others who are being trained in medical schools, hospitals, and health science centers listed in the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board's list of higher education in Texas; and students attending two-year and four-year colleges whose course work involves direct patient contact regardless of the number of courses taken, number of hours taken, and the classification of the student. Subsection (i) of this section also applies to veterinary medical students whose course work involves direct contact with animals or animal remains regardless of number of courses taken, number of hours taken, and the classification of the student.
2. (b) Students may be provisionally enrolled for up to one semester or one quarter to allow students to attend classes while obtaining the required vaccines and acceptable evidence of vaccination.
3. (c) Students cannot be provisionally enrolled without at least one dose of measles, mumps, and rubella vaccine if direct patient contact will occur during the provisional enrollment period.
4. (d) Polio vaccine is not required. Students enrolled in health-related courses are encouraged to ascertain that they are immune to poliomyelitis.
5. (e) One dose of tetanus-diphtheria toxoid (Td) is required within the last ten years.
6. (f) Students who were born on or after January 1, 1957, must show, prior to patient contact, acceptable evidence of vaccination of two doses of measles-containing vaccine administered since January 1, 1968.
7. (g) Students must show, prior to patient contact, acceptable evidence of vaccination of one dose of rubella vaccine.
8. (h) Students born on or after January 1, 1957, must show, prior to patient contact, acceptable evidence of vaccination of one dose of mumps vaccine.
9. (i) Students shall receive a complete series of hepatitis B vaccine prior to the start of direct patient care or show serologic confirmation of immunity to hepatitis B virus.
10. (j) Students enrolled in schools of veterinary medicine shall receive a complete primary series of rabies vaccine prior to the start of contact with animals or their remains; and, a booster dose of rabies vaccine every two years unless protective serum antibody levels are documented.
11. (k) Students shall receive two doses of varicella vaccine unless the first dose was received prior to thirteen years of age.

Source Note:The provisions of this §97.64 adopted to be effective April 1, 2004, 29 TexReg 3188.