Academic Catalog and Handbooks

2024-2025 Edition

Medicine

Advisors: Manuel Campos, Clark Cotton, Brittany Merritt, David Mitchell, Alicia Peterson

Medical schools consider majors in any discipline to be acceptable for admission. Prerequisites are one year of introductory biology with labs, four semester of chemistry with labs (covering general and organic chemistry), one year of physics with labs, one semester of mathematics (statistics recommended), and one semester of psychology.  Many medical schools also require one semester of biochemistry with lab.  Although physiology is not a prerequisite for enrollment, it is required in preparation for the Medical College Admission Test (MCAT).

Admission to medical schools is competitive and the admission process considers courses, grades, performance on the MCAT, service record, clinical experiences, personal interviews at the medical schools during the senior year, and letters of evaluation. General information can be found in the CSB/SJU Pre-professional health programs web page (http://www.csbsju.edu/pre-professional-health/pre-medicine) as well as the American Association of Medical Colleges web site (http://www.aamc.org/) and American Association of the Colleges of Osteopathic Medicine (http://www.aacom.org).