Pre-Health
Whether you're interested in Pre-Veterinary, Pre-Dentistry, Pre-Medicine, or another health profession, Stetson's Pre-Health program is an excellent path to prepare for your future career. This program ensures you become a well-rounded and knowledgeable individual ready to make a difference. In this pre-professional program, you can choose any major, as long as it includes the core science courses required for your intended health profession.
Why Pre-Health at Stetson University?
Stetson University provides you with the necessary curricula if you're aiming for a career in medicine, dentistry, veterinary medicine, or other health fields. With a full-time health professions advisor, Natalie Bittles, who is here to help you along your path to a career in the health professions field even after you graduate. Following your junior year, the Health Professions Advisory Committee compiles a letter that paints a complete picture of you as a person and as a future healthcare provider.
Core courses encompass biology, chemistry, organic chemistry, and physics, alongside humanities, social sciences, and advanced sciences, ensuring a well-rounded academic background that enhances your competitiveness as a health professional school applicant. Our campus emphasizes community service, offering opportunities for volunteering and shadowing in your field of interest.
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Gealina Chicon '24 Health Sciences, minor in Africana Studies
Career Outcomes
As a pre-health student at Stetson University, you have a variety of specific career paths to consider for advancing your career in the medical and health fields. These opportunities are open to all pre-health students aiming to pursue graduate studies and professional roles:
- Dentist
- Hospital Administrator
- Nurse
- Occupational Therapist
- Pharmacist
- Physical Therapist
- Physician
- Physician Assistant
- Public Health
- Veterinarian
Stetson’s Health Professions Advisory Committee plays an active role in supporting you as you prepare for a medical or health career. Committee members will advise you on course selection, provide information about professional schools and health career options, assist in arranging internships, help you prepare for admissions tests, and guide you through the application process. The current HPAC members are:
- Natalie Bittles, PhD, MHA, Health Professions Advisor
- Michael S. King, PhD, Professor of Biology, Committee Chair
- Richard Medlin, PhD, Professor of Psychology
- Michele Skelton, PhD, Associate Professor of Health Sciences
- Lynn Kee, PhD, Associate Professor of Biology
- Paul Sibbald, PhD, Assistant Professor of Chemistry
- Erica Goldstein, PhD, Assistant Professor of Health Sciences
Pre-health courses are taught by the health professions advisor to best prepare you for entry into health professional schools.
- PRHP 101: Introduction to the Health Professions
- PRHP 102: Applying to the Health Professions
- PRHP 297: Pre-Health Internship I
- PRHP 397: Pre-Health Internship II
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