Emergency and Medical
Emergency Contacts
*Pan European Emergencies: 112
Police: 117
Ambulance: 144
Fire: 118
Pepperdine Public Safety: +1 (310) 506-4441
Staff in charge of medical needs: Coordinator of Student Life, Anaïs Perez: +41 79 576 3582
Program Assistant, Rafael Zulian: +41 78 964 0301
Director, Ezra Plank: +41 76 422 2537
Château d’Hauteville: +41 21 321 0909
VEVEY Urgent Care
In the Vevey Train Station
No appointments taken, must wait in-person.
Place de la Gare 3, 1800 Vevey (map)
+41 21 566 59 50
Hours:
Mon-Fri, 9:00 am - 6:00 pm
Sat-Sun, 10:00 am - 5:00 pm
Program physician
Dr. Kristiana Nesa
Appointments are usually made a week or two in advance; please work with Anaïs to schedule an appointment.
Route du Village 10, 1807 Blonay (map)
+41 21 943 23 23
*Please note that in Switzerland, if you fail to appear to a scheduled doctor's appointment, you will be charged.
INSURANCE
Students are provided with two medical insurance policies while they are in Switzerland: 1) a global policy through the insurance provider GeoBlue and 2) a global policy through the insurance provided Allianz. The GeoBlue policy is provided to all international programs students at Pepperdine. The Allianz policy is available only to Pepperdine Switzerland program students in accordance with Swiss legal insurance mandates.
For practical purposes, the GeoBlue policy is used for all counseling-related treatments. The Allianz policy is used for all other medical treatments. For further details on terms of coverage or reimbursements, please email anais.perez@pepperdine.edu.
IP ABSENCE POLICY
All absences, despite the circumstances, totaling more than one hour in a 1 unit class, three hours in a 3 unit class, and four hours in any 4 unit class, automatically lower the final grade by one half of a letter grade (i.e., from an A- to a B+). Each successive absence will in turn lower the grade by an additional one half of a letter grade.
Tardy policy
4 partial misses, regardless of how little the time portion is, count as 1 absence.