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Health Career Professional Studies, Post-Baccalaureate Certificate - Career Change


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This post-baccalaureate certificate is designed to assist individuals who are interested in making a career change. This program is for students who have undergraduate degrees in any discipline who wish to pursue a career in the health sciences.  It 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 61-63 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.  The courses required for the post-baccalaureate certificate are:BIOL 196 , BIOL 197 , BIOL 223  or BIOL 348 , BIOL 224  or BIOL 440  or BIOL 447 , BIOL 300  or BIOL 304 , BIOL 351 , CHEM 121A , CHEM 121L , CHEM 122A , CHEM 122L , CHEM 241 , CHEM 241L , CHEM 242 , CHEM 242L , CHEM 474 , CHEM 475 , PHYS 151 , PHYS 152 , ENG 101 , ENG 102 , PSY 101  or One Upper-Division Psychology Course.

 

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