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Disability

COVID Vaccine Exemption Request

KU Medical Center clinical partners may require students to have received the COVID vaccine before being allowed to begin or continue their clinical or programmatic experiences.  Some KU Medical Center partners (including The University of Kansas Health System) are administering their own medical exemption request processes for students seeking an exemption due to a medical condition.  Students are instructed to submit their requests directly to such sites.  For students at the University of Kansas Health System, please initiate this process by contacting Stephanie Jernigan, Director of Student Health Services, at sjernigan2@kumc.edu. Meanwhile, some sites are directing KU Medical Center to perform that review.

If your clinical site directs that KU Medical Center review and decide medical exemption requests, please complete this form and provide the health care provider attestation to a licensed independent provider (MD, DO, APRN), and submit the completed form to Stephanie Jernigan at sjernigan2@kumc.edu.

Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 prohibits federal contractors and subcontractors from discriminating in employment against individuals with disabilities (IWDs) and requires these employers to take affirmative action to recruit, hire, promote, and retain these individuals.  Federal contractors are also prohibited from denying a reasonable accommodation to a qualified individual with a disability unless doing so would cause an undue hardship on the employer. Section 503 regulations also require federal contractors to invite all employees to self-identify as an individual with a disability.  To complete this voluntary process, please click on the Invitation to Self-Identify tab under Affirmative Action in the left column.   

Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 prohibits public entities from denying access to educational programs and activities because of an individual's disability. The ADA also requires colleges and universities to provide students with appropriate academic adjustments or other reasonable accommodations that are necessary to afford an individual with a disability an equal opportunity to participate in the school's program.

The Americans with Disabilities Act Amendments Act of 2008 expanded the definition of the term disability to encompass a broader range of conditions.  An individual with a disability is one who has a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits one or more major life activities such as walking, seeing, thinking, or communicating or that significantly impacts the operation of major bodily functions or systems such as immune, digestive, respiratory, or circulatory.  An individual with a disability is also someone who is regarded as being disabled. 

If you believe you have been subjected to disability discrimination, have witnessed disability discrimination, or have been denied a reasonable accommodation, please contact the Office of Civil Rights and Title IX at civilrights@ku.edu, or file a report online.

If you are an employee seeking a reasonable accommodation, please contact the Human Resource's Office at (913) 588-5031.

If you are a student seeking reasonable accommodation, please contact the Student Services' Academic Accommodations Coordinator at (913) 945-7035.

Disability Discrimination Law and Policy:

Civil Rights and Title IX

University of Kansas Medical Center
Office of Civil Rights and Title IX
Dole Human Development Center, Suite 1082
1000 Sunnyside Avenue
Lawrence, KS 66045
Phone: 785-864-6414
civilrights@ku.edu