Amherst College Health Professions Links

Information specifically for Amherst premedical students

• The Amherst College Guide for Premedical Students comes in two parts, printed versions of which are available in the Career Center:
  • Part I: Preparing to Apply to Medical School gives advice about courses to take and what to do besides academics in order to ready yourself to apply to medical school.
  • Part II: The Medical School Application Process tells you how to go about applying.
• Career Center Health Professions page
• The Charles Drew Health Professions Society, Amherst's student organization for those interested in medicine and other health professions
• Five College Program in Culture, Health, and Science
• Checklist of things Amherst applicants must do in order to apply with the support of the Health Professions Committee

  Summer research opportunities

• Summer undergraduate biomedical and neuroscience research programs, from Amherst's Neuroscience Program
• Summer undergraduate biology research programs (including ecology and evolution) from Amherst's Biology Department

  Other useful information sources for premedical students

• Association of American Medical Colleges, useful information, e.g. order forms for MCAT prep. manuals
• Brandeis University's guide, also a lot like our own, but with more on the application process - interviews, etc.
• Syracuse University Health Professions page, with good links to sites for non-M.D. health resources
• Page of useful links from the Northeast Association of Advisors for the Health Professions
• Accounts of interviews at different medical schools, from StudentDoctor.net
• Tutorial in medical Spanish, with audio (free)

  MCAT exam

• AAMC MCAT main page
  • Test dates
  • Test sites(only 1 in western Mass.)
• Princeton Review, includes a downloadable sample MCAT - Course costs $1999 (09/2010)
• Stanley Kaplan, not to be outdone by Princeton Review (they keep changing the URL to their MCAT page - it's on this site somewhere) Course costs $1799 (02/2010)
• Suggestions for preparing without taking a commercial course

Combined degree programs

• NIH's Medical Scientist Training Program
• MSTP institutions
• All MD/PhD programs
• MDPhDs.org
• MD/MPH programs from the AAMC
• MD/Library-Information Science at Duke

  "Postbac" programs

• The AAMC's list of programs
• Mount Holyoke College: the Frances Perkins Postbaccalaureate Studies Program
• Bryn Mawr College
• Columbia University
• Goucher College
• Tufts University
• University of Pennsylvania

If I don't apply at the end of junior year to start medical school 6 weeks after college graduation, what should I do during the year or two after graduation and before med. school? There are many opportunities, e.g.

• Teach for America
• NIH Postbac IRTA program and NIH Academy
• Peace Corps - requires 2 years and probably a 3rd year afterwards to apply, because it likely won't be possible to return for interviews in the middle of the 2nd year of service
• Amherst Career Center's list of possibilities - pdf file

  Scholarship programs that pay for medical school, requiring some commitment afterwards

• Army
• Air Force
• Navy
• National Health Service Corps

Study abroad, taking premed courses that appear on a U.S. institution's transcript

• Washington & Lee / St. Andrews (Scotland)

Global health and Social medicine

• Social medicine portal from Albert Einstein College of Medicine (many links to issues such as universal coverage and international health)
• International Healthcare Opportunities Clearinghouse, a comprehensive listing of volunteer and paid positions with more than 100 organizations, from the UMass Medical School Library
• International Health Action Group opportunities - from the American Medical Students Association
• Global Service Corps - volunteer organization
• Child Family Health International, organizes internships in Ecuador, India, and other countries; participants pay, and must be at least 21
• Ben Gurion University of the Negev - MD Program in International Health and Medicine with Columbia University

  U. S. Medical School for non-US citizens and residents?

• Useful article by Ed Miller and Joni Huff - a must-read article for international students hoping to enter U.S. medical schools
• George Washington University Medical School program for non-US residents who attended college in the US; sponsorship by country of origin required

  Health Professions Career Information other than M.D.

• Dentistry: American Dental Education Association; American Dental Association
• Nursing: American Nurses Association
• Public Health: "What is Public Health"?
• Veterinary:
  • American Veterinary Medical Association;
  • Association of American Veterinary Medical Colleges , with a list of admission requirements for each U.S. vet school
  • Martindale veterinary medicine collection
• Osteopathic medicine: The Student Doctor's page on osteopathic medicine; Association of osteopathic medical schools
• Physician assistant: American Academy of Physician Assistants, Physician Assistant Education Association, Physician Assistant Schools.com
• Podiatry: Best of the Web - Podiatry
• Midwifery: American College of Nurse - Midwives
• Health Care Administration: Pam Pohly's list of healthcare employment resources
• Acupuncture: Acupuncture.com; American College of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine
• National Institute of Health alternative medicine page

  Other Organizations

• National Library of Medicine
• Food and Drug Administration
• National Institutes of Health
• American College of Sports Medicine

  And... what the medical profession is really like

• "ER" on NBC TV
• Grey's Anatomy on ABC TV

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