Is there life for a Science Major after Campbell?

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Is there life for a Science Major after Campbell?

• 2LT Robert D Hales
• SGA President GA-PCOM
• March 20, 2006

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Say Yes

• Graduate School
• Pharmacy School
• Allied Health
• PA
• Nursing
• Chiropractor
• Medical School
• Osteopathic - DO
• Allopathic - MD

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What do you I need to do?

• Plan earlyhint start Yesterday
• Remember the Big Picture
• Start making relationships and networking
• Will you face some discrimination being from a
  small school?

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Graduate School

• MS and PhD
• Find summer programs
• Find what interest you
• Read papers in that field
• Find researchers that are leaders in that field
  and find out the information about the schools
  they do research

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Allied Health Schools

• Similar requirements to Medical School.
• Benefits
• Fixed schedules
• Providing healthcare without all the
  responsibilities and cost

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• "Many of us are intimidated by doctors. Well, let
  me see if I can demystify them for you A doctor
  is an ordinary human being just like you and me,
  except that they're smarter, better and have
  godlike powers over life and death.
  Okay?"-Dennis Miller

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Osteopathic vs Allopathic

• Similarities
• Application process
• Four year program
• National boards
• State licensing boards
• Unlimited rights to practice all phases of
  medicine (including writing prescriptions)

• Distinctions
• Philosophy
• Emphasis on musculoskeletal system
• Generalist education/Primary care(Family
  practice, OB/GYN, Pediatrics, General Internal
  Medicine)

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Philosophy??

• Host Illness Disease
• DO Treat the Host
• MD Treat the Illness

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GA-PCOM Class Profile 2005

• Of the 1750 applicants 236 were interviewed
• 86 matriculated
• Overall GPA 3.5
• Science GPA 3.4
• MCAT Scores 25 (average of 8.3 per section)
• 49 male, 51 female
• 88 from Georgia and other Southern States
• Number of applicants up 40 from last year

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Questions?

• One who asks a question is a fool for five
  minutes one who does not ask a question remains
  a fool forever. - Chinese Proverb