Pre-Health职业

Pre-牙科, Pre-veterinary medicine, and pre-medicine are routed to this page. For more information on these subjects, contact 卫生专业咨询.

注意: This is a career path option at 弗吉尼亚理工大学. Undergraduate students will choose a major and receive guidance on the specific requirements of professional schools from a health professions advisor.

For students interested in the human health professions or veterinary medicine, undergraduate study at 弗吉尼亚理工大学 provides a solid academic background for graduate or professional school. Health Professions Advisors are available to guide students planning to pursue careers in medicine, 牙科, 验光, 药店, 物理治疗, 临床科学, veterinary medicine or any of the healthcare professions on how to be a competitive applicant.

Academic and 卫生专业咨询

Your primary academic advisor is assigned to you by the department in which you plan to attain your degree and will work with you to ensure you graduate from 弗吉尼亚理工大学. Additional guidance on the specific requirements of healthcare professional schools is available from 卫生专业咨询, 位于史密斯职业中心. 学生 interested in health professions should discuss their plans with their departmental academic advisor in conjunction with a Health Professions Advisor. This combination ensures that students fulfill the requirements of their major while completing the pre-requisites of their post-graduate healthcare program and gaining the experiences that will make them a competitive candidate.

选择专业

Any major is acceptable to health professional schools as long as students satisfy admission requirements. Although many pre-health professions students tend to major in scientific disciplines (biochemistry; biology; chemistry; engineering; human nutrition, 食物, and exercise; and psychology), recent re搜索 demonstrates that the non-science major not only has an equal opportunity for admission to medical school, but also performs at the same level as the undergraduate science major.

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在一般情况下, admission to health professions schools depends upon academic achievement in undergraduate or post-baccalaureate programs, performance on national standardized tests, motivation to pursue a career in healthcare, and substantive letters of recommendation. Highly competitive applicants have obtained some experience in their chosen field prior to admission, 表现出为他人服务的承诺, and demonstrate the qualifications that these programs consider when looking at applicants holistically.

Most medical and dental schools and other health professions programs include the following college courses among their admission requirements:

• 数学
• 生物+实验室
• 生物化学
• 英语
• 普通化学+实验室
• 有机化学+实验室
• 物理+实验室

Specific prerequisites vary slightly among the medical and dental schools. The student should review the prerequisites for the specific school(s) of their interest to make certain all such courses have been accounted for by the time of application.

Most health professional schools require students to take a standardized admissions test. Normally students take this test in the spring of the year they plan to apply to their professional school. 学生 take the Dental Admission Test (DAT) for dental schools, Medical College Admission Test (MCAT) for medical schools, 验光 Admission Test (OAT) for 验光 schools, 药店 College Admission Test (PCAT) for 药店 schools, and the Graduate Record Examination (GRE) for most of the other health professions. Additional information for individual schools are found on their respective web sites.