International Travel Clinic
 
Getting Started

• 3-6 months before your trip is a great time to start. You can get the full benefits of your vaccines and even avoid shortages of vaccines and medications. And you can be assured that if a series of vaccines is required you will finish the series before your departure date.
  
  
• Check to see if your insurance provider covers routine and travel related immunizations as well as travel related prescriptions provided at Elson Student Health. Check with your insurance carrier to ask if more than one month supply of a prescription at a time is allowed. This is especially important for prescriptions for anti-malaria medications.
  
  
• Budget for vaccines (cost from $20 to over $400). Please see our
  prices page and our insurance page.
  
  
• Download the Travel Questionnaire, which is available as a pdf document. Print it out, complete the form (instructions are below), and fax it to 434-243-9669, or bring it to General Medicine, at
  least 2 weeks prior to your appointment. You will not be able to make a travel appointment until we have received the questionnaire.
  
  
• Note about vaccine records:
  Elson Student Health has a copy of the record of your vaccines you provided to enroll at UVA as well as other vaccines that you have received at Elson Student Health. If you have received immunizations elsewhere, please make a note of these on the questionnaire.

Travel Questionnaire Instructions
You must complete parts 1-7, including studying the CDC Traveler’s Health web site.

1. If you need a form completed for a physical or need to talk about a health issue before your travel, or you’re providing medical or nursing care while abroad, call 434-982-3915 to schedule an additional individual appointment in General Medicine.

2. List ALL the countries you will visit in order by the date you will enter each country. List the cities or regions you will visit and length of stay. This is very important for areas with malaria. List the date you will return to the USA. List types of activities involved in your travel, such as rural travel, contact with animals, or going to high altitudes.

3. List allergies to medications, vaccines or food. Include severe insect allergies.

4. List all the medications you take.

5. Check off the medical problems you have had.

6. You will need to decide which vaccines and prescriptions you need for travel BEFORE scheduling your appointment.  There are hotlinks to the CDC website http://www.cdc.gov/travel/ within our online Travel Questionnaire to allow you to quickly review REQUIRED reading on pertinent health topics that apply to each geographic region of your trip. Pay particular attention to the risk area for malaria. Sign your form, verifying you read the required topics on the CDC website.

7. Indicate which vaccines and prescriptions you think you need after reading the CDC travel recommendations for your destination. 

Scheduling an appointment

• Fax Travel Questionnaire to 434-243-9669 or bring the completed form to General Medicine. Incomplete forms will delay your appointment. We need your completed form to schedule your appointment.
  
  
• Call 434-982-3915 to schedule your travel appointment 3 weeks before the desired appointment date. Your travel appointment is a 3 hour long group appointment with 15 to 20 other students, scheduled on Mondays or Tuesdays from 12:30-3:30pm.
  
  
• Specific Group Travel Consultations can be arranged for groups traveling together to the same location.
  
  
• Student Health does not administer yellow fever vaccine, so if your travel requires this vaccine, you will need to visit the Thomas Jefferson Health District  Health Department (434-972-6269) on Rose Hill Drive (walk-in hours Monday 8:30am-12 & 3pm-5pm, Thursday 8:30am-12 & 1pm-4pm) or the UVA Traveler’s Clinic (call 434-924-9677 for an appointment). 

Your travel appointment

• Vaccines and prescriptions are given at the end of the 3 hour group travel appointment after the physician speaks to you about recommended vaccines and medications based on your travel plans.
  
  
• Allow at least 3 hours for the appointment and immunization time.
  
  
• If you cannot come to your scheduled appointment, please call to cancel or reschedule.
  
  
• Please note: there is a charge for the immunizations required.Please see our prices page and our insurance page.

Prescriptions

Prescriptions may be taken to the Elson Student Health pharmacy and will be available on the 2nd business day following your travel appointment. Prescriptions should be picked up within 2 weeks or they are returned to stock. Prescriptions can also be taken to any pharmacy of your choice.

Maintained by: studenthealth@virginia.edu Last Modified: Wednesday, 20-Feb-2008 11:07:02 EST © 2002 by the Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia