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Degree Audit – School of Medicine Curriculum 2.0

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The degree audit is an online tool that allows students, advisers, and administrators to track students’ academic progress toward completion of degree requirements. This guide is to assist advisers and administrators with the School of Medicine – Curriculum 2.0 Degree Audit. The audit is available through the YES suite of applications.

To view a pdf version of this user guide, including screenshots of YES, click here: Degree Audit - School of Medicine Curriculum 2.0.

Navigating the Degree Audit

  1. Log in to YES using your VUnetID and e-password.
  2. Read and accept the Confidentiality Statement.
  3. Quick Search: Search for the student using last name, first name.
    • Additional search options (e.g., expected graduation term, major, classification) become available by clicking on Advanced Search.
  4. From the search results, select Degree Audit.
  5. The Medical Doctor degree audit will appear.
  6. In the top, right-hand corner of the audit, you can see the date that the current report was generated. [Audits are automatically refreshed weekly. When registration changes are made, audits are refreshed overnight. In addition, audits can be refreshed on demand by students, advisers, and administrators (see below).
  7. The degree audit view defaults to a top-level summary of the degree requirements. Requirements appear as Satisfied, Waived, or Not Satisfied.

Default view:

  • Doctor of Medicine Degree Audit: A description of the audit.
  • Foundations of Medical Knowledge: A list of all requirements of the FMK phase and the courses satisfying each. Includes year of completion and grade earned.
  • Foundations of Clinical Care: A list of all requirements of the FCC phase and the courses satisfying each. Includes year of completion and grade earned.
  • Immersion Phase: A list of all distribution, core, and longitudinal requirements of the Immersion phase and the courses satisfying each. Includes year of completion and grade earned.

NOTE: For requirements not yet satisfied, an additional tab will appear: Possible Courses. Click on this tab to see the courses that can be used to satisfy the requirement.

Degree Audit Exceptions

Should a variance to the prescribed requirements be granted for an individual student, an exception can be posted to the degree audit. For example, IDIS 5220 to count in place of IDIS 6001.

Refreshing the Degree Audit

Audits are automatically refreshed on a weekly basis. When registration changes or changes to major/minor declarations are made, audits are refreshed overnight. Students, advisers, and administrators also have the ability to refresh audits on demand.

Please Note: Unless changes have been made to your academic record (registration, major/minor declaration, etc.), you will not see any changes to the degree audit.

  1. Click on Refresh My Audits at the top of the page.
  2. It may take some time for the audit to refresh. The refresh will still continue if you navigate to a different application or even if you log out of YES.

What-If Audits

What-If audits allow students, advisers, and administrators to create potential scenarios to see how students could meet degree requirements based on successful completion of courses in the student’s planner (Course Options).

NOTE: Courses must be tagged with a term in your planner in order to utilize them in the What-If audit.

For help with the Academic Planner, please see the user guide.

Disclaimer: “The What-If audit is for hypothetical planning purposes only. Courses, classes, majors, minors, and concentrations may or may not be offered and may have additional stipulations for entry. Please refer to the appropriate school catalog as the authoritative document governing degree requirements.”

Course Options

  1. From the degree audit, select the What-If tab.
  2. Click on What-If Options.
    • NOTE: The Academic Options section allows students to choose different majors or minors to test potential completion of degree requirements. It does not apply to students in the School of Medicine.
  3. Ensure that the courses in the student’s Academic Planner are tagged with term information. (The term is necessary for the audit to reflect the correct course information.)
    • For help with the Academic Planner, please see the user guide.
  4. From the Course Options section, select the courses to be considered in the What-If audit.
  5. Click Submit.
  6. The question mark icon indicates a What-If course in the audit.

Questions

Please contact the YES Help Line at yes@vanderbilt.edu or 615-343-4306 if you have questions or need additional assistance.