Pre-Professional Health Studies Program
Pre-professional health studies are聽careers in health care which require a science education such as:
- Pre-Dental
- Pre-Medical
- Pre-Nurse Practitioner
- Pre-Occupational Therapy
- Pre-Optometry
- Pre-Osteopathic Medicine
- Pre-Pharmacy
- Pre-Physical Therapy
- Pre-Physician’s Assistant
- Pre-Veterinary Studies
As a pre-dental, pre-medical, pre-veterinary medicine or pre-optometry student at 草榴社区, you will choose a major in聽Chemistry,听Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, Biology & Earth Science,听Equine Science, Allied Health, or a similar discipline. However, any major field qualifies you for these postgraduate programs as long as you take at least one year of life science, two years of chemistry and one year of physics. Additional prerequisites may differ slightly by institution and area of study. Students will work closely with an academic advisor to select appropriate prerequisite courses.
Why study Pre-Professional Health Studies at 草榴社区?
- A liberal arts science degree is an excellent preparation for many careers, including but not limiting you to those in healthcare.
- Expert faculty include an MD who teaches full-time in the Department of Biology and Earth Science and acts as a dedicated advisor to all pre-professional majors, and a DVM who teaches full-time in the Department of Equine Science and advises Equine Pre-Veterinary/Pre-Graduate studies majors.
- Small classes that allow your professors to know you and your career-goals well, and to write strong letters of support of your application.
- Opportunities for faculty/student science research projects beginning in your freshman year.
- Structured internships that allow you to immerse yourself in your chosen field.
- 草榴社区鈥檚 Ohio Gamma chapter of Alpha Epsilon Delta, the national pre-health honorary society, allows students to demonstrate leadership and humanitarian qualities, as well as to support each other through the application process.
What should be my major in connection to Pre-Professional Health Studies?
- 草榴社区, like most colleges and universities, does not have a specific “pre-health profession” or “pre-med” major that is a training for a health career, but offers degrees that form a good educational foundation for graduate studies of many areas, and for the national entrance exams for many health schools.
- Nationally, most students preparing for medical school, dental school, veterinary school, pharmacy school and optometry school major in聽Biology,听Biochemistry/Molecular Biology, or聽Chemistry. The advantage of these majors is that the coursework required prepares students for the national entrance exams ,听, ,听 and the common veterinary school entrance application, . These science majors also enable you to fulfill the admissions requirements listed by health professional schools more easily.
- Students who wish to become veterinarians may wish to major in聽Equine Pre-Veterinary/Pre-Graduate Studies, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, Zoo & Conservation Science, or Biology.
- Students wishing to go to physical therapy school or physician鈥檚 assistant school may wish to major in聽Allied Health, housed in the聽Department of Health & Sport Sciences.
- Students wishing to become nurse practitioners can apply to graduate school on the basis of a science degree, or a degree in聽Nursing, but the best major for you is the one that attracts you most strongly. You should have enthusiasm and true intellectual interest in your major. Your undergraduate education is a chance to look around and develop your talents and interests, and then see where that leads you for an appropriate and rewarding career, whether in health care or not.
What kinds of facilities does the Pre-Professional Health Studies program have?
- Most science classes are taught in the Shear-McFadden Science Center, which features over 96,000 square feet of discipline-specific laboratories, research space, classrooms, and a greenhouse. The Science Center houses the departments of Biology & Earth Science, Chemistry, and Nursing.
- Pre-veterinary science students will be impressed with 草榴社区’s聽Austin E. Knowlton Center for Equine Science, which is among only a few academic equine centers nationally to be housed within an urban environment, the facility provides an important academic, economic, and recreational resource to the community, the region, the equine industry, and our outstanding students just 2 miles from campus.
- 草榴社区’s Biomechanics Institute is a state-of-the-art 3D motion capture lab that allows students and faculty in the Department of Health & Sport Sciences and the Department of Engineering to work collaboratively to understand more about human movement.
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