Tuberculosis (TB) screening: Entering international students are required to complete an online TB screening questionnaire to determine whether they must get a TB test. To complete the questionnaire:
- Log in to the MyUHS portal using your UTEID and password.
- Click "Medical Clearance".
- Locate “TB Screening” on the page and click the “Update” button.
- Answer the questions and submit your TB screening.
- If a TB test is necessary, you will see the TB Test requirement added when you go back to Medical Clearances
For students entering summer or fall 2022, the test must be administered on or after March 1, 2022.
If you are required to get a TB test, provide the following documentation:
- Results of a U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved IGRA blood test. If available in your country, UHS accepts results from either test listed below. You can get this test outside of the United States. Test name and test results MUST BE documented in English. Your name and date of birth must be included on the lab report you submit to UHS. If UHS has difficulty with English translation, interpretation of results or legibility of documents, you may be asked to repeat the test.
Acceptable (FDA) approved tests:
- QuantiFERON®-TB Gold In-Tube test (QFT-GIT)
- T-SPOT®.TB test (T-Spot)
OR
- A PPD (Mantoux) skin test. This test can only be administered and interpreted in the United States and must be reported in millimeters (mm). PPDs administered outside of the U.S. cannot be accepted.
A chest x-ray is NOT ACCEPTABLE as a substitute for one of the following tests.
IF YOUR TB TEST IS POSITIVE: Further medical evaluation and a chest x-ray must be performed. You have the following two options:
1. If you obtain your CXR prior to coming to campus, you can submit the radiologist chest x-ray report (written in English) along with a TB risk and symptom screening.
To submit your Chest x-ray and TB risk and symptom form:
- Log in to the MyUHS portal and click "Messages"
- Click “New Message” and select “I want to submit my TB risk and symptom form”
- Click “Add attachment”
- Select your chest x-ray file and click “open”
- Complete the questions in the TB risk and symptom form
- Click ”Send”
2. You can have your chest x-ray done at UHS.
- Schedule a telehealth visit with the TB provider at UHS (this is a video visit with a UHS provider using a Zoom connection)
- You MUST be in TEXAS at the time of your telehealth appointment
- Log in to the MyUHS portal and click “Appointment”
- Follow the prompts
- Select “I want to schedule a Tuberculosis test or follow up visit.”
- Select “I tested positive for TB and want to schedule a Telehealth visit”
- Schedule “Positive TB test consult w/ AIT provider”
- Complete the pre-visit questionnaire
Proof of immunity to measles, mumps and rubella that is documented in ONE of the following ways:
- Two doses of measles vaccine, two doses of mumps vaccine, administered on or after the first birthday and at least 28 days apart, and one dose of rubella vaccine administered on or after the first birthday
OR
- two doses of MMR vaccine administered on or after the first birthday and at least 28 days apart
OR
- positive blood tests showing protective antibodies to measles, mumps and rubella (must include official lab report).
Meningococcal (bacterial meningitis) vaccine requirement (if you will be age 21 or younger on the first official day of classes):
This requirement applies to you if you will be age 21 or younger on the first official class day of the semester you are entering UT Austin. The vaccine must have been administered within five years of the first day of classes of the semester you will enter UT Austin. Find official first class day dates at the link below. If you have received a meningococcal vaccine administered prior to the time described above, you must receive another dose of the vaccine.
Important information about the meningococcal vaccine requirement
