Friday, August 23, 2013
Course Materials
Although your professors will supply a decent amount of your materials (mainly in the form of case studies), a few required materials are quite expensive. You may benefit from contacting a BioID alumni to gain these materials significantly cheaper.
Student Insurance
GT requires graduate research students to have insurance. As a result they provide insurance automatically through student fees. Although it is not immediately apparent, BioID students count as graduate research students and will have a Student Health Insurance (code SINS) charge applied to their account. Note that this is different from your Health services fee (code HEA).
If you are already covered, you need to go to studentbluega.com to waive the mandatory insurance.
If you aren't already covered or think that the Blue Cross Blue Shield student plan may be more effective for you (it's pretty good for the cost when you factor in the included dental and optical), you'll enroll in the mandatory plan, simple as that.
It's good to have this done early so you can get your information from them early enough to present to the immunization staff. All immunization fees are covered.
If you are already covered, you need to go to studentbluega.com to waive the mandatory insurance.
If you aren't already covered or think that the Blue Cross Blue Shield student plan may be more effective for you (it's pretty good for the cost when you factor in the included dental and optical), you'll enroll in the mandatory plan, simple as that.
It's good to have this done early so you can get your information from them early enough to present to the immunization staff. All immunization fees are covered.
Thursday, August 15, 2013
PPD Test - Where / When to get it
Georgia Tech has a more rigorous list of immunizations than I'm used to and so it was annoying to get all these preventative shots. But what was most annoying was to have to get a second PPD (test for TB) and to find out that I had paid too much for the first one.
What NOT to do: get a PPD at a CVS Minute Clinic or a doctor's office well in advance; get a Quantiferon test (unless you are an international student) Grady doesn't accept this
What to do: get your PPD from Grady Hospital a few days before registration
Why:
-Your clinical experience requires you have an access badge at Grady Hospital that requires a LOT of stuff to be done, including a PPD test.
-They don't accept PPD's from the above sources. They also give a test for $18 versus the $39 I paid at CVS or $35 you could pay at Concentra Urgent Care (which they do accept and is located next to Tech if you don't want to travel out to Grady).
-They require that the test be done no more the 30 days before "start date." I assume that means 30 days before you apply for the badge.
What NOT to do: get a PPD at a CVS Minute Clinic or a doctor's office well in advance; get a Quantiferon test (unless you are an international student) Grady doesn't accept this
What to do: get your PPD from Grady Hospital a few days before registration
Why:
-Your clinical experience requires you have an access badge at Grady Hospital that requires a LOT of stuff to be done, including a PPD test.
-They don't accept PPD's from the above sources. They also give a test for $18 versus the $39 I paid at CVS or $35 you could pay at Concentra Urgent Care (which they do accept and is located next to Tech if you don't want to travel out to Grady).
-They require that the test be done no more the 30 days before "start date." I assume that means 30 days before you apply for the badge.
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