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About your Appointment

  • Check-in at the front Desk. Check-in at the front Desk.

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Thank you for scheduling an appointment at the Wilce Student Health Center. 

Length of Appointment:

Plan on about an hour from the time that you arrive until the time that you will leave. (This can be somewhat longer if you need lab work, X-rays, or a referral.)

Appointment Includes:

  • Check in at the front desk in the area where you have your appointment.
  • Reading/completion of forms (privacy policy, medical history, appointment specific, etc.)
  • Processing by Support Staff (Nurse or Medical Assistant).
    • Check vital signs (blood pressure, pulse, weight, etc.)
    • Ask questions about reason for visit
    • Review parts of your medical history (allergies, medications, etc.)
    • Check to ensure that any lab work or test results from previous visits are available for your provider (Physician, Nurse Practitioner, Physician Assistant) to review
  • Have a seat in one of our waiting areas. You will be given a copy of our Patient Handbook if you are a new patient, or if you have not received a copy in the past. While you are waiting for your provider, please take a few minutes to review.
  • Provider will call you to come back to the examination room.
    • We make every effort to see you as soon as possible. If there is an unexpected delay (as may happen if the patient seen before you is extremely ill or their diagnosis is complicated), we will try to keep you informed.
    • Review your history and discuss your current concerns
    • Perform any appropriate physical examinations necessary
    • Discuss your concern and recommend a plan.
      • This plan may include a medication/prescription, possible testing, or non-medication treatments.

Testing:

Most testing can be completed here at the Student Health Center, and you may be asked to wait while that testing is completed (especially when it would affect your immediate treatment). Other times you may need to schedule a follow-up appointment to discuss the test results with your provider, or to see if you are improving. Scheduling those appointments before you leave the Health Center will ensure that you have the best choice of times, and that there will be an appointment available for the time when your provider would like you to return.

Summary:

If you need testing at an outside location, or if you need a referral to an outside specialist, we will assist you with scheduling those appointments before you leave.  We can also schedule any referrals within the Wilce Student Health Center for services such as Physical Therapy or Optometry.

As you can see, there are many important parts to every appointment.  In order to allow enough time to adequately assess your problem, yet still have enough appointments every day so that students don't have to wait too long to get an appointment, we do schedule only short appointments.  That means that we do not schedule extended appointments for multiple problems. You will be asked to identify the problem that is most important to you as the reason for your appointment.  You may need to schedule additional appointments if you have other concerns.