Pre-Health/Pre-Medicine Professional Studies

Why Elms for your Pre-Health/Pre-Med degree?

• Advance your skills in the Lyons Center, a $12 million facility designed for innovation in the sciences.
• Collaborate with published professors on experiments, especially in the biology, chemistry, and biotechnology fields.
• Fast-track your acceptance to professional health graduate programs through our affiliation agreements with other colleges and universities.

Shayla Burge ’20: Seeing Art in Medicine

Pre-Health/Pre-Medicine Professional Studies Program

Hands-On Experience. Personalized Instruction.

Our pre-health/pre-medicine program offers one-on-one advising with professor Janet Williams, Ph.D., who helps you develop strategies to prepare you for further study. You can participate in faculty research projects and become involved with volunteer, mentorship, and leadership programs.

You can find Elms pre-health/pre-medicine students continuing their studies after graduation at prestigious schools such as Tufts University College of Veterinary Medicine, the University of Chicago School of Medicine, Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine, and Creighton University School of Medicine, among others.

Standardized Test Preparation

The Elms College pre-professional program prepares students to matriculate to professional health programs. We offer discounted rates for standardized test preparation for medical school (MCAT), dental school (DAT), optometry school (OAT), pharmacy school (PCAT), and veterinary, PA, PT, OT, chiropractic, and other graduate schools (GRE).

Affiliations, Linkages and Agreements

Elms College premed students have the option to expedite their grad school applications by taking advantage of our affiliations with other schools. Students should contact Dr. Janet Williams, the premedical advisor, for more information.

Premed students who have completed the requirements set out by Marywood University’s PA program are eligible to apply to the program for an interview. A recommendation letter of endorsement from the Elms College premedical advisor is required.

Premed students are also eligible to apply to the early acceptance program at the Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine (LECOM), the Lake Erie College of Dental Medicine (LECOM), and the Lake Erie College of Pharmacy (LECOM). Eligible students can schedule an interview with a LECOM admission committee to fast-track their entry into the program of their choosing.

Elms College is also affiliated with the Western New England University Pharm.D. program, which gives premed students the option to continue their graduate education in Western Massachusetts.

We are a member of the National Association of Advisors of the Health Professions.

Bridge Your Skills Into Medical School

No matter which branch of medicine you’re interested in practicing, the pre-health/pre-medicine program gives you the knowledge and expertise you need to get accepted into medical school. Our graduates have recently been accepted to the following schools:

Doctor of Allopathic Medicine (MD)

Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine (DO)

Dental

Veterinary 

Podiatric Medicine

Optometry

Physician Assistant

Pharmacy

John Marc-Austin ’17

John-Marc Austin ’17, biology and psychology double major and a bioethics minor, has been accepted into the program at the University of Massachusetts Medical School, which only accepts 3.5% of applicants.