Technical Standards

Every applicant who seeks admission to TUCOM Nevada is expected to possess those intellectual, ethical, physical, and emotional capabilities required to undertake the full curriculum and achieve the levels of competence required by the faculty. Once enrolled in TUCOM Nevada, each candidate for the MHS degree must be able, quickly and accurately, to integrate all information received, perform in a reasonably independent manner, and demonstrate the ability to learn, integrate, analyze and synthesize information and data.

TUCOM Nevada will make every effort to provide reasonable accommodations for the physically challenged students, however, in doing so, TUCOM Nevada must maintain the integrity of its curriculum and preserve those elements deemed essential to the acquisition of knowledge in all areas of the MHS program curriculum.

Accordingly, TUCOM Nevada requires each student to meet certain technical requirements.

1. Observation: Candidates and students must have sufficient vision to be able to observe demonstrations, experiments, and laboratory exercises in the basic sciences. They must be able to observe a patient accurately at a distance and close at hand.
2. Communication: Candidates and students must be able to speak, hear, and observe in order to elicit information, examine patients, describe changes in mood, activity, and posture, and perceive non-verbal communication. Communication includes not only speech, but also reading and writing. They must be able to communicate effectively and efficiently in oral and written form with all members of the health care team.
3. Intellectual, Conceptual, Integrative, and Quantitative Abilities: The student must be able to demonstrate ability in measurement, calculation, reasoning, comparison and contrasts, analysis and synthesis, and problem solving. Candidates and students must demonstrate ability to comprehend three-dimensional relationships, and to understand spatial relationships of structures.
4. Behavioral and Social Abilities: Candidates and students must possess the emotional health required for full utilization of their intellectual abilities, the exercise of good judgment, the prompt completion of all responsibilities attendant to the development of mature, sensitive relationships with classmates and faculty. Candidates and students must be able to tolerate mentally taxing workloads, adapt to changing environments, display flexibility, and learn to function in the in a high-paced environment. Compassion, integrity, concern for others, interpersonal skills, interest, and motivation are personal qualities that will be assessed during the admissions and education process.