- Advising and Support
- Counseling and personal attention are available from your academic
advisors, special health professions advisors, other faculty members,
and the professional staff of the Career Services Center. The center
also conducts practice interviews for pre-medical/pre-dentistry students.The
progress of students seeking to apply to professional school is guided
by the pre-health programs advisors over the four years and, if requested,
even following graduation. At application time, the advisor works individuually
with each student to craft the strongest possible application. This
degree of personal attention is part of the key to the success of our
applicants in gaining admission to professional schools. The Career
Services Center also conducts taped practice interviews for the students'
professional school interviews.
Our active Pre-Health and Pre-Veterinary clubs help students
mentor one another in a variety of ways Conferences are arranged
with medical school admissions officers from public and private
institutions in Ohio and other states. Tours of medical facilities
such as The Ohio State University and other hospitals are offered
each year. More advanced students give newer students peer support
at each stage of their education. Service projects funded through
the Lilly Foundation have regularly been organized and run by Pre-Health
students, giving them meaningful volunteer experience both in the
U.S. and abroad.
- Scholarships
- Scholarships and awards support students in various ways. The Barbara
Van Sittert Scholarship aids women interested in medicine, while the
Lawrence E. Young, M.D. Award assists students preparing for health-related
careers to undertake influential experiences during the summer or on
campus. The Tom D. Halliday Memorial Scholarship provides financial
assistance to an Ohio Wesleyan graduate who attends Jefferson Medical
College in Philadelphia, and the R. Eugene Glendening Scholarship supports
a junior or senior interested in dentistry.
- Majors
- Preparation for medicine and dentistry require an extensive and specific
sequence of science courses, but there is also room for individual
tailoring of programs. Most health professional school applicants complete
majors in the biological sciences, chemistry, or neurosecience.Ot hers,
in consultation with an academic advisor, choose an interdepartmental
pre-medical/pre-dental major, particularly if they wish to combine
this preparation with an additional major, often outside the sciences.
Students with double majors finish with an unusually rich undergraduate
experience - and they are particularly attractive candidates to medical
and dental schools.
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- We also offer preparation for several of the allied health professions:
pharmacy, optometry, physical therapy and occupational therapy.
- Health Care Experience
- A special volunteer arrangement in the emergency services department
at nearby Grady Memorial Hospital in Delaware allows our student to
gain signficant clinical experience. Our students regularly participate
in summer programs in Cleveland, Ohio, including the Chester Program
at MetroHealth and several programs at Case Western Reserve University,
including the Rainbow Babies Clinic and SMDEP. Recent student-initiated
projects funded by OWU's Young Awards have included medical research
in Guadalajara, Mexico, volunteering with Child Health International
in Ecuador, a research internship at Scripps Institute in La Jolla,
California, and a student of parasitic infections among internally
displaced populations in Sri Lanka following the tsunami. Five local
dentists regularly open their doors to OWU pre-dental students for
shadowing opportunities. For pre-veterinary students, placements are
available at local clinics and the nearby Columbus Zoo.
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- There are growing differences in admission requirements of veterinary
schools. Students interested in attending veterinary schools are encouraged
to select a major in zoology or chemistry, and to work closely with
the pre-veterinary medicine advisor.
- Research
- Research gives you an opportunity to develop and pursue a project
in collaboration with a faculty member. These projects may be carried
out during the academic year as independent studies for course credit
or during the summer as part of the on-campus Student Summer Research
Program. In addition, Ohio Wesleyan has just been awarded a Research
Experience for Undergraduates (REU) grant by the National Science Foundation
for additional summer research opportunities in physics and mathematics.
You can also spend a semester at the Oak Ridge or Argonne National
Laboratories doing intensive research with one of their scientists.
- Preparation for Entrance Exams
- MCAT/DAT preparation is designed to help you score well on these essential
tests. OWU course work equips students for the science sections of these
tests, and our Writing Resource Center coaches students on effective
essay-writing strategies. Career Services arranges free practice exams
on campus. Students prepare for the exams in a variety of ways: some
review effectively on their own, while others take commercial review
classes. Each year our "veteran" seniors share with our juniors
practical ideas for achieving good scores.
Committee evaluations of your undergraduate performance are preferred
by medical schools, and Ohio Wesleyan prepares these. In fact, our
applicants have been told by several institutions that Ohio Wesleyan
compiles some of the very best pre-medical evaluations.
- Facilities
- Our Conrades-Wetherell Science Center, which was dedicated in October,
2004, provides state-of-the-art classrooms and laboratories for our
botany-microbiology, chemistry, mathematical sciences, physics and
zoology departments. Noteworthy facilities include confocal and scanning
electron microscopy labs, individual labs dedicated to student-faculty
research, a chemistry computer facility for molecular modeling, cold
rooms for protein and nucleic acid isolation and study, and several
molecular biology labs. The Hobson Science Library is a component of
the University's main library, with holdings that number among the
largest of liberal arts college libraries. The science library includes
35,000 books and access to 3,000 full text journals, including 250
in print.
Laboratory courses not only teach techniques and reinforce classroom
learning but also help students develop the ability to design,
conduct, and interpret experiments. You will work with state-of-the-art
research instruments such as our: scanning
electron microscope, nuclear magnetic resonance spectrometer
with broad band probe; mass spectrometer with DI probe; various
computer-interfaced physics instruments; ultracentrifuge; thermal
cyclers (for PCR); DNA and protein electrophoresis chambers; DNA
sequencing apparatus; phase, Nomarski, fluorescence, confocal, and
inverted microscopes; computer-interfaced physiology equipment; spectrophotometers ; electrophysiological
recording and computer-controlled behavioral testing equipment.
The departments involved have special budgets for scientific equipment
related to the health care fields. Most importantly, all equipment
is for hands-on student use in structured labs and independent
research.
Also available is our excellent academic computing system, which
includes a number of microcomputer labs located in academic buildings
and residence halls, many of which are available 24 hours a day.
Our central academic system offers students access to the Internet
and email, and wireless network connections are available in Beeghly
Library and Conrades-Wetherell Science Center. Residence hall rooms
are linked via fiber-optic cable to our central systems. Access
to the central and library
systems is also available from many terminals and networked
computers on campus.
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Faculty Advisors
- Nancy A.
Murray, Ph.D., University
of Michigan, Department of Botany-Microbiology, chief pre-health professions advisor,
pre-medicine and pre-dentistry advisor.
- Ramon Carreno, Ph.D.,
Ontario Veterinary College, University of Guelph.Department of Zoology,
pre-veterinary medical advisor.
- Danielle Hamill, Ph.D.,
University of Kansas, Department of Zoology, pre-physical therapy
and pre-occupational therapy advisor.
- Katherine
Hervert, Ph.D., Colorado State University,
Department of Chemistry, pre-pharmacy advisor.
- David
Robbins, Ph.D., University of Delaware, Department
of Psychology, pre-optometry advisor.
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