Pre-Health Professions Certificate

Benefits

• Enrollment in courses is reserved for our post-bac students.
• Cohort structure: students are organized into mutually supportive cohorts of as many as 60 students each. This feature emphasizes cooperation rather than competition.
• Flexibility: Students are not required to take classes they have already completed and done well in, electives can be taken as needed, and part-time enrollment is possible.
• Students in the program will receive a high level of staff support and personalized academic advising.
• A committee writes detailed letters of evaluation for students upon completion of the certificate.
• Auxiliary course work is offered each semester in the form of discussion sections (SCI classes) designed to further enhance learning.
• Professional development colloquia are offered during the first and final semesters for students to assess their career goals, develop effective application strategies and create community.
• We have created a nationally recognized program with a modern curriculum, high standards and a high success rate that is successfully training the healthcare leaders of tomorrow.

Our Mission Statement

The short-term goal of the Pre-Health Post-Bac programs is to guide participants through the entire preparation and application process so that they will be successful applicants to U.S. health professional schools. The three long-term goals of the programs are:

• To help train professionals that know how to conduct balanced lives and work with each other in a cooperative rather than competitive manner
• To contribute to social justice by training a diverse population of participants so that the pool of healthcare providers better matches the pool of patients, thus lessening the access, treatment and outcome disparities that plague our healthcare system
• To further contribute to social justice by providing socioeconomically disadvantaged participants a career path that provides them and their families with greater socioeconomic resources

Cost and Length

Cost: ~ $5,500 - $6,000 / $600 per unit. Cost varies based on number of courses taken.
Length: 2 - 6 semesters
When to Start: Fall, Spring, Summer