Pre-Health Coursework
This is the major you need in order to apply to medical school.
What is anything you want to major in? or What is no specified major?
This is generally the person you would talk to on a college campus about pre-health professional questions.
Who is our Pre-Health Professions Advisor, Cailin Pachter?
Uses x-ray machines, ultrasound machines, MRI scanners, and other advanced machines to help diagnose and treat illnesses and injuries under the direction of a physician
What is an x-ray technician?
The most frequently diagnosed cancer in men.
What is prostate cancer?
The Father of Medicine (whose oath is used)
Who is Hippocrates?
This is where you can find information about applying to pre-health professional schools, opportunities to build your resume, or events about pre-health professional schools.
What is the Pre-Health Canvas page?
A person who analyzes blood, hair, and saliva evidence in criminal cases
What is a DNA analyst?
One of two diseases to have been completely eradicated.
What is small pox or rinderpest?
The founder of the American Red Cross
Who is Clara Barton?
A person who diagnoses and treats patients whose health problems are associated with the body's muscular, nervous, and skeletal systems, especially the spine
What is a chiropractor?
The word used to describe a disease that has travelled from one area of the body to another area
What is metastatic?
The founder of modern nursing who got her start tending wounded soldiers during the Crimean War
Who is Florence Nightingale?
These are a couple of the ways that a pre-health professional student could gain more exposure to a medical field they are interested in.
What are job shadowing, volunteering, scientific research, and internship opportunities?
These are the initials that would follow the name of someone who is a doctor of dental medicine.
What is D.M.D.?
Both drug resistant and extremely drug resistant strains of this infectious disease have been identified
What is tuberculosis?
The Father of Epidemiology, known for mapping cholera outbreaks in London
Who is John Snow?
This is the location of Cailin's office.
What is the basement of Seeger's Union?
Clinical scientists who study human body cells
What is a cytotechnologist?
A hereditary blood defect known as "The Royal Disease"
What is hemophilia?
The first person to demonstrate the antibacterial properties of penicillin
Who is Sir Alexander Fleming?