The Programs
Students in these programs often complete rigorous science courses like biology and chemistry as preparation for professional schools such as medicine or nursing.
What is Pre-Health?
This pre-health professional's daily schedule might include performing physical exams, diagnosing conditions, and developing treatment plans.
What is a Physician?
If you’re confused about which classes to register for next quarter, this is the person you should see.
Who is the Academic Advisor?
Washing your hands before eating helps prevent the spread of these tiny organisms.
What are germs?
This event helps you meet other pre-health students and find clubs that you might want to join.
What is the H.U.B Fair?
Undergraduates preparing to focus on oral health, teeth, and gum care often choose this 4-year track.
What is the Pre-Dental program?
This career path involves daily tasks like assessing patient needs, administering medications, and collaborating with doctors to provide holistic care.
What is a Nurse?
This person helps oversee Pre-Health programs and ensures events and services run smoothly.
Who is the Associate Director?
This nutrient is the body’s main source of energy and is found in bread, pasta, and rice.
What are carbohydrates?
Each year, guest professionals like doctors and dentists come to talk to students at these events.
What are Lunch & Learns?
Students in this program are pursuing a career where they detect diseases by analyzing samples of blood, urine, and other tissues.
What is Clinical Laboratory Science?
A day for this pre-health student might involve learning to take patient X-rays, applying preventive sealants, and performing teeth cleanings.
What is a Dental Hygienist?
This quiet space is reserved for group or solo studying, equipped with desks a whiteboard.
What is the Study Room?
Vaccines work by training this body system to fight infections.
What is the immune system?
This event helps you practice interviewing before applying to medical or graduate school.
What are mock interviews?
In this program, students combine medical technology and radiation to generate images that physicians interpret.
What is Medical Radiography?
This field prepares students to work with both speech and swallowing difficulties.
What is Communication Sciences & Disorders?
If you want support from fellow students who have been through the same classes and experiences, you’ll visit this room.
What is the PB Peer Mentoring Room?
Too little of this hormone made by the pancreas leads to diabetes.
What is insulin?
A hands-on event where you might practice suturing, CPR, or lab skills.
What is a workshop or skills lab?
This field blends engineering and healthcare by designing supportive devices like prosthetic limbs and braces.
What is Orthotics & Prosthetics?
This professional's day could include using high-frequency sound waves to create images of internal body structures, like a developing fetus or a patient's heart.
What is a Diagnostic Medical Sonographer?
A place designed to help you recharge between classes, this space emphasizes balance and relaxation.
What is the Zen Den?
This imaging technique uses magnets and radio waves to create detailed pictures of the body.
What is an MRI?
La Sierra offers preparation for more than just medicine or dentistry. Name two other health careers supported by the Division of Pre-Health.
What are Optometry, Veterinary Medicine, Physical Therapy, Physician Assistant, Communication Sciences & Disorders, Respiratory Care, Orthotics & Prosthetics, Nursing, etc.?