text: Supervision and Scope of Practice Policy: Medical Student Education | School of Medicine
  Phase 2 and 3 Assist. Deans
  RESPONSIBLE Educational Policy Sub-committee Chair, haywooda@iu.edu
  ACCOUNTABLE Curriculum Council Steering Committee Chair, aladd@iupui.edu
  SUPPORT Educational Policy Sub-committee members
  Colleen O'Brien, colmobrie@iupui.edu
  CONSULT Joseph Scodro, Deputy General Counsel, (317) 274-5277, jscodro@iu.edu
  Curriculum Council Steering Committee Chair, aladd@iupui.edu
  INFORM Educational Policy Sub-committee members
  Andy Foster, IUSM Website, fosteran@iu.edu
  Any individual, student, faculty member, resident physician, advanced practice provider, administrator, staff member, group or committee involved in providing patient care in a clinical learning environment.
  All medical students participating in required educational experiences are engaged in clinical learning environments where they are supervised by members of the faculty, and/or where present, residents. It is the precepting physician's responsibility to ensure compliance with this policy and ultimately to make the determination as to the level of independence each student should have when providing patient care in a clinical learning environment.
  Once a medical student has been observed successfully performing one of the procedures listed below by a faculty or qualified resident, that is within the faculty's scope of practice, the supervising faculty may verbally authorize the student on a case-by-case basis to perform it with the physician not present but immediately available. The process will include verbal permission from the patient when possible.
  In addition to all components of the history and physical examination, medical students may perform any of the following per policy with the knowledge and authorization of the supervising physician.
  Blood collection: arterial, venous, or capillary
  Injections: intramuscular, subcutaneous, intradermal, intravenous
  Insert peripheral intravenous catheter
  Ventilation (ambu-bag)
  Procedures performed on the case-by-case process described in this Policy will be logged through the School's central procedural skills logging system (e.g. Evalue PxDx) with sign-off verification by the supervising physician.
  Adherence to this policy and its utilization is monitored by CCC quarterly and CCSC every six months, and modified as appropriate. The frequency of procedures performed under this policy will be tracked for location, clerkship, and student level. The adequacy of supervision tracking system on the Learning Environment web page will also be monitored for reports of students not feeling adequately supervised in clinical activities.
  Supervision requires a faculty physician, or qualified resident physician to be present or immediately available.