Housing Policy

Students should keep several things in mind when making arrangements for housing.

• Housing is reserved as a courtesy to students and is scheduled through the hospital contacts or regional AHEC coordinators. Students are required to contact the hospital contact or regional AHEC coordinator as soon as possible if they will not utilize AHEC reserved housing. This allows them to offer any available housing slots to other students and/or to cancel housing contracts, which helps maintain these benefits for future students.
• Housing may consist of a hospital room, a room in a private home of a host family or in some cases an apartment or other room shared with other health professional students. Housing varies widely among different sites and is subject to change at anytime. When housing is available, students may have to share an apartment, room (separate beds provided) and/or bathroom. If you have specific questions about housing accommodations at your assigned site, please contact your hospital contact or regional AHEC Coordinator.
• Every effort is made by OSU-COM / AHEC to make housing available to students for remote site rotations, however, housing is not guaranteed by the College for any rotation.
• When housing sites are used for multiple rotations, students scheduled for required rotations (e.g., Emergency Medicine, Rural Clinic) will be housed first. Students in elective rotations will receive last priority and will be housed depending on availability and on first come, first serve basis.
• Housing requests for electives must be made directly through the AHEC regional offices. If you make your own housing arrangements at an AHEC-sponsored housing site, you may be “bumped” by students completing required rotations.
• If students are not satisfied with, or do not wish to take advantage of the housing provided, they are required to let the AHEC coordinator know as soon as possible they will not be using the housing arrangements, and are responsible for making their own alternative housing arrangements.

For questions, or to discuss specific housing arrangements, please call the hospital contact the regional AHEC office.