Since being at college I have gotten sick more than one time. At first I was unsure of where to go to the doctor. After doing some research I found that I could just go to the student health center. Making an appointment was easy. All that I had to do was go online and find a time that was free for me to go in and then schedule the appointment. Id was easy to do and there were many appointments available so I was able to get in 3 days later. When I got there all I had to do was swipe my BuckID and follow the instruction kiosk. It told me where to go next and what I needed to do. After that I had my appointment and when I left I was told that if I didn’t get better I was able to message my doctor in My BuckMD and go from there. My sickness didn’t go away and being able to message my doctor was helpful and really easy. Being able to connect to your doctors so easily is very easy and helps recovery. Getting prescriptions there is very easy too. On the first floor of the student health center is very helpful and makes getting prescriptions very easy. In that area there are also over the counter medicines being sold. This is a good idea because with some sicknesses you might only be able to treat the symptoms with over the counter medicines. The student health center is also located in the center of campus right next to the oval. This makes it easily accessible to all students and nobody has to go across campus to get there. There are also multiple appointment windows open every 2o minutes, making getting an appointment easy and flexible. I think that to improve this service there could be more instructions on the floor for the first time you go. I was unsure of what to do when I got there and I ended up going to the wrong place and I was late for my appointment. For the subsequent appointments I had the process of signing in was easy and efficient but the first time should have more guidance. All of the receptionist and nurses that I talked to were really helpful and really nice. Any questions that I had were answered. Another thing that I could improve with this resource would be to make more of them. OSU’s campus is very large and making a 20 minute walk in the cold while being sick is hard. There could be smaller ones around campus that you could go to for smaller illnesses and the one in the center of campus could be the main office and the place where prescriptions are picked up if needed. I think that this would improve the effectiveness and ease of the student health center and allow more students to utilize this service.
This is a picture of the student health center. It looks like it is new and a clean building.
“Student Health Center.” OSU.edu, OSU, Columbus, greatvision.osu.edu/clinic/student-health-services.