Entrance Exams
This is the full name of the test associated with the acronym MCAT.
What is the Medical College Admission Test?
This is the degree that you pursue if you want to be a Genetic Counselor.
What is a master's degree program in Genetic Counseling?
These are a category of skills that all health professions require.
What are transferable skills?
Dr. Megan Lamkin is the Director of this important office on campus that helps pre-health students find different kinds of experiential learning opportunities that can help them be more competitive for professional school.
What is the Office of Undergraduate Research?
This is a tool that you should update regularly as a part of professional networking.
What is
My Resume
My LinkedIn Profile
My Handshake Profile
This is the entrance exam you take if you want to apply to dental school.
What is the DAT or Dental Admission Test?
This is the length (in years) of a typical PharmD program.
What is 4 years?
This is the tendency to make judgments and decisions about others and how to interact with them based on very small pieces of information and/or stereotypes. It can seriously impact healthcare in negative ways.
What is Implicit Bias?
This is the campus resource charged with helping UC students plan and prepare to be competitive applicants for professional school.
What is the Pre-Professional Advising Center or PPAC?
This is one of the most common interview questions.
What is ...
Tell me about yourself.
Why do you want this position...(or to be a ...(
This is the ideal time frame within which you should take the entrance exam for any given professional school.
One task of this type of provider involves administering hearing tests.
What is an audiologist?
This is the opposite of cultural competence.
What is cultural humility?
This is the name of the student group that serves as peer mentors that aid in finding research opportunities.
What is ReCON (Research and Creative Opportunities Network)
This is the assessment that we used at the beginning of the semester to help us discover our talents.
What is
StrengthsQuest
CliftonStrengths
This is the entrance exam that you must take if you want to apply to optometry school.
What is the OAT or Optometry Admission Test?
This is the full credential (not acronym) of a doctor who treats medical problems of the foot.
What is a doctor of podiatric medicine?
These are 4 social determinants of health.
What are
Race
Ethnicity
Income/Economic Status
Education
Employment
Physical Environment
Access to Healthcare
Gender
Gender Identification
Religion
Culture
(more)
This is the name of the person who came to class on Tuesday to discuss financial literacy with you.
Who is Sydney Meimann?
This is a professional networking tool that you should always have ready to use.
What is an elevator speech?
These are 3 health related professional school options that require the GRE.
What is
Physical Therapy
Occupational Therapy
Veterinary Medicine
Physician Assistant
One of our guest speakers was Diane Wright. Her profession is...
Licensed Independent Social Worker
Mental Health Professional
These are the four ethical principles to consider when facing an ethical situation.
What is autonomy, justice, beneficence and non-maleficence?
This is where the PPAC is located.
What is 120 University Pavilion?
This is an excellent way to get exposure to and learn about in real time a specific health care profession. (Professional schools require it.)
What is shadowing?