This program is for students who have undergraduate degrees in any discipline who wish to pursue a career in the health sciences. There are three tracks, each designed to assist a different demographic. Completion of requirements in any track will result in awarding the Certificate.
Track 1-Career Change is designed to assist individuals who are interested in making a career change. This track is intended to facilitate the completion of prerequisite and preparatory coursework to confer eligibility to apply to medical school and dental school. Students interested in pursuing Pharmacy, Physician Assisting, Physical Therapy, Veterinary, Chiropractic, or any other type of health science professional school may pursue this track, but will likely need to take additional courses to complete the prerequisites for these types of professional school. Only students whose grade point averages are competitive for professional school (3.0 or higher) should pursue this track. It consists of 64 credits of defined coursework that are delineated below. Transfer credits may be accepted dependent on how recent the coursework was completed. Courses over 10 years old are not considered to be current for application to professional school.
BIOL 196 , BIOL 197 , BIOL 351 , BIOL 300 or BIOL 304 , BIOL 348 , BIOL 440 or BIOL 447 , CHEM 121A , CHEM 122A , CHEM 241 /CHEM 241L , CHEM 242 /CHEM 242L , CHEM 474 , CHEM 475 , PHYS 151 , PHYS 152 , ENG 101 , ENG 102 , PSY 101 , one upper division Psychology course
Track 2- Health Science Enhancement is designed for two demographics of students; those that have applied to professional school and been rejected due to a low grade point average and those who have not yet applied to professional school due to a low grade point average and wish to improve their application before applying. These students typically require substantive post-baccalaureate coursework and the extent of the number of credits required to facilitate acceptance to professional school is directly dependent on how low starting GPA is. In most cases, 60 credits may facilitate acceptance to professional school, but in the extreme cases 90 credits may be necessary. As such, students may complete 60 to 90 credits of any of the following courses to earn the certificate.
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Track 3 - Medical School Partnership - is designed for the partnership with the any of the schools of medicine in the state of Nevada that have agreements with UNLV. This track affords preferential consideration to students who are first generation college, from groups which are under-represented in medicine, including Native American, Latino/Latina, African-American; and students from rural areas, and low socio-economic backgrounds. Anyone is eligible to apply. Students pursuing this track must also complete the application for this program with the participating school of medicine and proceed through a screening process to be selected for this track. If the student maintains a 3.3 cumulative GPA and earns a minimum score to be determined by the school of medicine on the MCAT, the student is eligible to apply for a reserved number of seats for the appropriate incoming medical school class. The participating schools of medicine reserve up to 10% of incoming seats for post baccalaureate students. It is designed for students who have undergraduate degrees who are not academically competitive to apply to medical schools. Students do not have to be a re-applicant. Students admitted to this track must complete 30 credits from the following courses over a single academic year.
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