Drexel immunizations and TB: the Clinical Immunization Record, titers and yearly forms

The current record is a seven-page packet dated November 17, 2025. Drexel bases its clinical immunization rules on CDC guidance for healthcare workers and on whatever its executed clinical affiliation agreements require. Here is what the packet asks you to document:

Everything on the record is uploaded to CastleBranch, where the Clinical Compliance team checks it against your program's due dates.

Drexel's compliance FAQ is short on this point: titers are required for Hepatitis B, MMR and varicella, and they must be positive. Documented doses on their own won't satisfy the packet for those three, and a titer that comes back negative isn't one Drexel can accept.

Order titers early, not the month before your due date. If a result comes back negative or equivocal, ask the compliance team what Drexel accepts next before you book a booster or a repeat series, because that answer shapes your timeline more than anything else on the list.

Pull old records before you start anything new. Past employers, earlier programs and your own clinicians may already hold dose dates and titer results that fill most of the packet, and a quick records request costs far less time than repeating a series.

Drexel's compliance page cautions that finishing the Hepatitis B doses can stretch to seven months, and the packet also asks for a positive surface-antibody titer once the doses are in. Any follow-up after a negative titer adds time on top of that.

Drexel's sample plans put NUPR 520 in the fall of year two and the first clinical course the following summer, so starting the series by the time you take the seminar leaves room for a full course of doses and the titer. If you're admitted closer to your first clinical quarter, or your plan has shifted around the move to semesters, start the series the week you're admitted and tell the compliance team where you are in it.

The broader schedule, from admission through NUPR 520 to your first clinical quarter, is on the clinical timeline page.

Tuberculosis screening has its own set of Drexel forms, and which one you file depends on your history.

1. First screeningRecorded on the Clinical Immunization Record, done in the U.S. within 12 months of the start of school.
2. Every year afterFile the Annual TB Renewal Form (updated May 8, 2025), using a one-step PPD skin test or an IGRA blood test.
3. If you've had a positive TB testDrexel needs a chest X-ray once, then a Signs and Symptoms Form every year.
4. Upload each formEach TB form is uploaded to CastleBranch alongside your other health documents.

Sites can ask for more than Drexel does. Lehigh Valley Health Network asks for two TB skin tests and its own health certificate, and Bayhealth wants a TB test within one year. Check your site's list once it confirms you.

The Fall Influenza Form has to be completed and submitted by October 1 each year and uploaded to CastleBranch. It's the one compliance date Drexel publishes for everyone, and it lands early in the fall quarter, which began on September 22 in 2026. Book your shot as soon as the season's vaccine is available where you live. Some sites add their own flu rule; Bayhealth, for instance, lists a flu vaccine in season among its student requirements.

If you're thinking about a vaccine exemption, raise it before your site is chosen. In Drexel's words, an exemption may affect how you progress through the program, since a site can make any vaccine a condition of placement. A site that insists on a vaccine you've declined is unlikely to work as your placement, so the earlier the compliance team knows, the more options remain.

Drexel's Compliance Forms page tells students to upload the Immunization Record and the Physical Examination Form to the University Health Insurance and Immunizations website and to CastleBranch, because the university's immunization requirement is separate from clinical compliance. The university site runs on Medicat, which you reach through the Health and Wellness Resources channel in DrexelOne.

Online students hit a wrinkle here. The university's immunization page says fully coded online students are not required to comply with the University Immunizations Policy, and Drexel's pages don't reconcile that with the double-upload instruction. Ask the compliance team whether your Medicat upload is still needed. The CastleBranch upload is required either way. Keep the answer with your records, since the same question may come up again when you renew each year.

Immunizations are yours to finish; a site that fits your Drexel course is ours to find. The moment a site accepts you, we pass on its onboarding requirements, from extra TB tests to seasonal vaccines, so you can compare them with what CastleBranch already shows and close any gap well before the term. You get the site's list in plain terms, matched against Drexel's.

Our placement advisors specialize in Drexel's process, from the patient population your track needs to the preceptor credentials the college checks, and we're on call whenever a preceptor falls through. Drexel approves; we see that the preceptor and site details reaching the college are complete. Tell us your track on the contact page.