UNCG supports students who are planning to pursue a graduate degree in a health-related field such as medicine, dentistry, physician assistant, physical therapy, occupational therapy, pharmacy, veterinary medicine, optometry, genetic counseling, and many more. Those preparing for competitive applications to these fields should declare an interest track in the appropriate pre-health field while also completing a bachelor’s degree in a major of their choice.
If you are interested in a health-related professional school after you graduate from UNCG, but you have not yet declared the pre-professional interest track of your choice, you may do so through this form, also found on Spartan Central.
https://reg.uncg.edu/forms/pre-professional-interest-track
All students with one of these declared Pre-professional interest tracks will be automatically enrolled in the Pre-Professional Programs (ORG) group in Canvas, which is how information is provided and announcements about upcoming events are communicated.
Pre-professional students will also be assigned a second, pre-professional advisor to assist them in ensuring that students are meeting the academic and extracurricular requirements to build a competitive application to the professional school of their choice.
Curious what students find the most valuable about pre-professional advising? Read this UNCG News article to learn more!
If you do not yet have an assigned pre-professional advisor, you may set up an appointment with either the Chair (Robin Maxwell) or Assistant Chair (Jeremy Ingraham).
Ms. Maxwell: CLICK HERE
Dr. Ingraham: CLICK HERE
Health related professional graduate programs require a core of courses (“prerequisites”) that must be completed with strong grades (mostly grades of A and only a few B grades) before admission. They can be successfully incorporated into almost any major. The choice of major does not significantly affect the student’s probability of admission to a given professional graduate school. Students should give consideration to any major that they find interesting and in which they excel. The admission requirements vary among professional schools, even within the same discipline. For specific information, students should review the websites of the schools to which they are interested in applying.
A spreadsheet of the common pre-requisite courses offered at UNCG for select health-related professional schools can be found HERE.
The achievement of outstanding academic credentials should not be accomplished at the expense of sacrificing extracurricular activities. Equally important in a competitive application is involvement in activities that demonstrate core values and skills that will make a student an effective practitioner of the profession. Professional programs prefer students who are well-rounded and have actively pursued diverse interests, especially in these areas:
Please also read the following FAQs about Health Career Advising: Health Career FAQs
MAPS: Minority Association of Pre-med Students
UNCG Dental Club
SPECS: Spartans Pursuing Eye Care Science (Pre-Optometry Club)
Pre-Vet Student Association
Robin Maxwell, Biology (Chair);
Jeremy Ingraham, Biology (Co-Chair);
Joe Bundy, Biology;
Jessica Caporaso, Psychology;
Norman Chiu, Chemistry/Biochemistry (Pre-Pharmacy only);
Jennifer Clark, School of Health and Human Sciences Advising Center;
Erin Fox, School of Health and Human Sciences Advising Center;
Ashleigh Gallagher, Psychology;
Mark Hens, Biology;
John Lepri, Biology;
Karen Katula, Biology;
Kimberly Miller, Community and Therapeutic Recreation (Pre-Occupational Therapy only);
Ron Morrison, Nutrition;
Pradyumna Pradham, Chemistry/Biochemistry;
Promod Pratap, Physics;
Jason Reddick, Chemistry/Biochemistry;
Candie Rumph, Biology;
Randy Schmidtz, Kinesiology (Pre-Physical Therapy only);
Caitlin Saraphis, CASA;
Casey Taylor, Biology;
Aaron Terranova, Kinesiology