prehealth

Pre-Health Post-Bac Application Guidance Info Session - Fall 2025

Our fall 2025 application closes on April 15, 2025. Join our info session for assistance in completing your application before the deadline.

Learn the ins and outs of the Pre-Health Post-Baccalaureate Certificate application process. We will cover the various components of an application and provide tips for creating your strongest submission. We will also answer any questions you may have. Applicants who have already submitted their application are welcome to join the meeting.

We will include:

  • Coaching on essay prompts
  • Instructions on how to complete the Coursework Spreadsheet
  • Advice on how to work with your letter writers
  • An opportunity to ask questions about the application process

We look forward to meeting you.

Pre-Health Post-Bac Application Guidance Info Session - Summer 2025

Our summer 2025 application closes on March 1, 2025. Join our info session for assistance in completing your application before the deadline.

Learn the ins and outs of the Pre-Health Post-Baccalaureate Certificate application process. We will cover the various components of an application and provide tips for creating your strongest submission. We will also answer any questions you may have. Applicants who have already submitted their application are welcome to join the meeting.

We will include:

  • Coaching on essay prompts
  • Instructions on how to complete the Coursework Spreadsheet
  • Advice on how to work with your letter writers
  • An opportunity to ask questions about the application process

We look forward to meeting you.

Pre-Health Post-Bac Scholarship Granted

Scholarship Recipient 

We are proud to announce that Kevin Varos has been awarded the 2024 Dr. Michael Green and Ann Sartori Scholarship. Kevin is a highly motivated student and an outstanding representative of the Pre-Health Professions Post-Bac Certificate Program. He has our best wishes as he pursues a career in medicine. We extend our heartfelt gratitude to the Green family for their generous support in making this scholarship award possible. 

Pre-Health Post-Bac scholarship recipient, Kevin Varos, with the Green family

Sarah and Josh Green with Kevin Varos

Dr. Michael Green and Ann Sartori Scholarship 

After retiring from the Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology at St. Louis University Medical School, Dr. Michael Green taught in the Post-Bac Program at SF State (fall 2015 - fall 2017). While he mentored hundreds of medical and graduate students during his long career, he often mentioned his time at SF State as one of his favorite teaching experiences.  

Ann Sartori was a Montessori-certified pre-school teacher for many years. In 1986, she graduated from St. Louis University Law School and was admitted to the Missouri Bar Association. Today, she lives in San Francisco and enjoys spending time with her children, Josh and Sarah, and her two grandchildren.

The scholarship honors the memory and impact Dr. Michael Green has had on students and colleagues by establishing an ongoing fund to help highly motivated and deserving students in the Pre-Health Professions Certificate Program. 

Josh and Sarah Green with Kevin Varos and Deepika Ahuja 

Sarah and Josh Green with Kevin Varos and Deepika Ahuja  

Discover SFSU

Meet College of Professional & Global Education staff at the Discover SFSU open house event, and find out about our programs.

SFSU

About Discover SFSU

San Francisco State University invites you and your family to our Discover SFSU open house to get a sneak peek of all that we have to offer. You will have the chance to meet students and faculty from our academic colleges, experience student life, learn about campus housing and financial aid, take a campus tour and much more.

Find out more about the event and register on the Discover SFSU website.

Pre-Health Workshop Series: Finding Clinical Experience

A guide for finding meaningful clinical opportunities in healthcare 

Join us for this Pre-Health virtual workshop to:

  • Learn strategies to find work or volunteer opportunities in clinical settings from a panel of pre-health students
  • Discover the amount and types of clinical experiences you need to apply to health professions schools

All students, freshmen through post-bac, are welcome!

This workshop is for anyone interested in a health professions career, such as:

  • Medicine
  • Dentistry
  • Nursing
  • Podiatry
  • Physician Assistant
  • Physical Therapy
  • Optometry

Pre-Health Post-Bac Application Guidance Info Session

Learn the ins and outs of the Pre-Health Post-Baccalaureate Certificate application process and complete your application for spring 2025. We will include:

  • Coaching on essay prompts
  • Instructions on how to complete the Coursework Spreadsheet
  • Advice on how to work with your letter writers
  • An opportunity to ask questions about the application process

We look forward to meeting you.

Pre-Health Post-Bac - Start in Fall - Apply by April 15

Are you planning to go to medical school?

SFSU's Pre-Health Professions Post-Baccalaureate program is intended for students who have already earned a bachelor's degree and wish to apply to U.S. health professional schools. Depending on their academic path and in consultation with their pre-health advisor, students will take prerequisite courses, upper-division electives or a combination of the two.

Application Period: October 1 - April 15
Deadline: April 15, 8:59 p.m. PT/11:59 p.m. ET

Who Should Apply in Fall

  • Formal Post-Bac:
    • Career Changer Track (CCT): You must have completed the major’s level General Chemistry I and a college math course. If you have not taken General Chemistry I, please consider applying for the summer cycle.
    • Academic Enhancer Track (AET): All applicants are welcome.

Fall Application

Find the fall application and apply by April 15.

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