Pre-Health
Meharry Medical College’s Physician Assistant Program is dedicated to advancing health equity by training diverse and underrepresented students, fostering mentorship, and preparing future PAs to serve underserved communities with cultural humility and clinical excellence. History ... Read more
Jade O. Norman, PA-S3, MHS and Taylor Edwards
Updated March 5, 2025 by Jade O. Norman, PA-S3, MHS and Taylor Edwards
Pre-Health
We willingly chose the Black coat to remind us that our approach to medicine and healing and our reasons for selecting our field of study and future practice are fundamentally different than others. For us, ... Read more
Emil Chuck, PhD
Updated February 12, 2025 by Emil Chuck, PhD
Pre-Health
This article focuses on reflective practices for health professional education and training. This advice can apply to developing a prehealth journal, personal blog, podcast, or other media-created story that may not involve physical paper, pen, ... Read more
Emil Chuck, PhD
Updated November 12, 2024 by Emil Chuck, PhD
Pre-Health
In the 2004 Tony-award-winning musical Avenue Q, Princeton, a recent college graduate (with an English degree from a prestigious university), searches to find a “purpose.” As he transitions between jobs with cheerful orchestration and backup ... Read more
Emil Chuck, PhD
Updated June 11, 2024 by Emil Chuck, PhD
Pre-Health
Medical schools want to select students who are not only academically excellent but are also aligned with their mission and likely to thrive in their unique environments. Duet is a values-alignment assessment from Acuity Insights that ... Read more
Acuity Insights
Updated June 5, 2024 by Acuity Insights
Pre-Health
Premeds dream of reciting the Hippocratic Oath dressed in their new white coat embroidered with the crest of their medical school. The White Coat Ceremony, encouraged by the Gold Foundation to emphasize the importance of ... Read more
Emil Chuck, PhD
Updated March 6, 2024 by Emil Chuck, PhD
Pre-Health
The Health Professional Student Association (HPSA) Student Advisory Council recognizes two advisors as Advisors of the Year each year. These advisors are nominated by the students they support, who submit short essays describing how these ... Read more
Emil Chuck, PhD
Updated January 24, 2024 by Emil Chuck, PhD
Pre-Health
How can applicants avoid the stress of applying to medical school? Well, a few of their incoming classmates may have already found a different path to earn their seat through articulation “early assurance” or “early ... Read more
Emil Chuck, PhD
Updated January 9, 2024 by Emil Chuck, PhD
Pre-Health
Emelia Sam, DDS is a former clinical associate professor of Oral Maxillofacial Surgery at Howard University and author of the “360 Soul Blog” and Compassionate Competency: Healing the Heart of Medicine. She joined Emil Chuck, ... Read more
Emil Chuck, PhD
Updated November 27, 2023 by Emil Chuck, PhD
Pre-Health
We previously discussed how study abroad opportunities could give future physicians better insights into global health challenges. Many health professions programs are specifically recruiting students who see their purpose as physicians as being global health ... Read more
Emil Chuck, PhD
Updated October 17, 2023 by Emil Chuck, PhD
Pre-Health
The ascent of Situational Judgment Tests (SJTs) in admissions, including Casper and AAMC PREview, has spurred frustration and concern among health professional school applicants and their advisors. In June 2023, the National Association of Advisors ... Read more
Laura Turner
Updated April 17, 2025 by Laura Turner
Pre-Health
For over 40 years, medical and dental school applicants have been asked to provide an institutional “committee letter” packet of recommendations if their prehealth offices provide a supportive evaluation. SDN has fielded questions about committee ... Read more
Emil Chuck, PhD
Updated September 27, 2023 by Emil Chuck, PhD
Pre-Health
In many literary epics, the protagonists’ journey is adversely affected by the weather or some force of nature. In Odysseus’s voyage home, Frodo’s quest, Dorothy’s journey down the yellow brick road, or Katniss Everdeen’s persistence ... Read more
Emil Chuck, PhD
Updated September 21, 2023 by Emil Chuck, PhD
Pre-Health
Every application cycle, applicants request expert reviews on the Student Doctor Network to help them assess “What Are My Chances” (WAMC) at getting accepted to their desired health professional programs. While GPA and test metrics ... Read more
Emil Chuck, PhD
Updated July 27, 2023 by Emil Chuck, PhD
Pre-Health
Pre-health conferences offer invaluable opportunities to comprehensively understand the healthcare field and become a competitive applicant. What are Pre-Health Conferences? First, let’s start with a basic definition of pre-health conferences and what they consist of. ... Read more
Hafsa Awan and Kamal Padda
Updated July 27, 2023 by Hafsa Awan and Kamal Padda
Pre-Health
Most advice to applicants focuses on the personal statement and description of work or activities required to complete the initial centralized application service (CAS) application. In contrast, I urge you to write your school-specific “secondary” ... Read more
Emil Chuck, PhD
Updated April 19, 2023 by Emil Chuck, PhD
Pre-Health
Once when I was director of admissions, incoming students viewed and discussed a “common orientation movie” called Coded Bias. Released in 2020 before the pandemic, this documentary (available on PBS for a while) presented the disparate impact ... Read more
Emil Chuck, PhD
Updated February 15, 2023 by Emil Chuck, PhD
Pre-Health
Barbra Roller, Ph.D. (she/her), is the Assistant Dean for Academic Affairs at the Florida International University (FIU) Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine (HWCOM). She also serves as the Administrative Director of the Graduate Certificate in ... Read more
Emil Chuck, PhD
Updated January 25, 2023 by Emil Chuck, PhD
