MEDICAL SCHOOL and other Health Professions

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MEDICAL SCHOOL and other Health Professions

• The how, what, where and whens of gaining
  admission to the doctoral medical professions.

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Doctoral Health Professions

• Allopathic Medicine (MD)
• Osteopathic medicine (DO)
• Dentistry (DDS)
• Podiatry (DPM)
• Chiropractic (DC)
• Optometry (OD)
• Veterinary Medicine (DVM)
• Pharmacy (Pharm. D.)

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Allied Health Professions

• Nursing
• Occupational Therapy
• Physical Therapy
• Physicians Assistant
• Public Health

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What does a med career entail?

• Baccalaureate Degree
• 4-years of Medical/Professional School
• 3-11 years post-graduate training
• Debt 60,000-145,000

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Medical Schools (Ohio)

• CWRU
• CINNCINATI
• NEOUCOM
• MCO
• OSU
• WRIGHT STATE
• OU-(OSTEOPATHIC)

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OTHER HEALTH-PROFESSIONAL SCHOOLS

• CHIROPRACTIC- National, New York
• DENTAL-OSU
• OPTOMETRY-OSU
• PODIATRY-OCPM (Cleveland)
• PHARMACY-Cinncinati, ONU, OSU, Toledo
• VET-OSU

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Admissions Requirements for Professional School

• A STRONG Academic Record!
• GPA
• MCAT/DAT/VET/OAT scores
• Letters of Recommendation
• science faculty recommendations
• there is no University Committee for letters
• Indicators of Desire
• professional experience
• volunteerism, etc.

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Required Courses

• General Biology with lab
• General Chemistry with lab
• General Physics with lab
• Organic Chemistry with lab
• Mathematics (preferably Calculus)
• English

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Course Questions

• Do I really need to take calculus?
• Remember, its called a competitive process
  because youre competing. So, if the school has
  a choice between students with and without calc
  and the same GPA, who gets in?
• Is it okay to drop a course?
• As long as its not indicative of a pattern.

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Recent Stats

• Out of 41,003 applicants in 1998, 17,379 (42.4)
  matriculated to Allopathic Med School. YSU
  placed 23 in allopathic programs
• Avg. MCAT score of matriculants v-9.6, p-9.9,
  w-P, b-10.2
• Avg. GPA of matriculants BCPM-3.52, non-science
  3.65, total-3.57

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Timetable

• First and second years study and perform, get
  some experience
• Junior spring admissions test (MCAT), start the
  application process for June opening date
• Post-Junior summer retake admissions exams (if
  needed)
• Senior fall complete applications (Oct/Nov
  deadline)

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NO-NOS

• Poor grades (Ds and Fs) - excuses are easygood
  grades are hard
• Job - If you must work, try to keep it under 12
  hrs/wk. Getting into Professional School is a
  FULL TIME job
• Doing this for anyone/anything but your own
  personal/inner desire.
• Doing it for money / prestige (i.e. believing
  what you watch on TV)

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Other things to consider

• The median age for admissions to allopathic
  schools is over 24. If at first you dont
  succeed
• Think about what else you could do with your
  life.
• Medicine is an ever-changing field. The kinds
  doctors you might get to be will be vastly
  different what we have now.

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Information Sources

• Dr. Kim
• The YSU PreHealth Web Site
• http//www.as.ysu.edu/tdkim/PreHealth.html
• Medical School Admissions Requirements and other
  authoritative publications
• N.B.- Other students may or may not be a reliable
  source of information. Verify!

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Announcements

• Check the Prehealth Web Site for regular updates
• If interest exist, a PreHealth newsgroup can be
  put into place.
• Upcoming on-campus visits
• Northwestern College of Chiropractic - Feb 24
• Ohio University College of Osteopathic Medicine -
  March 11