Prerequisite Courses (Minimum of 29 credit hours)
- General Biology with Lab: 4 credit hours or equivalent
- General Chemistry with Lab: 4 credit hours or equivalent
- Microbiology: 3 - 4 credit hour course or equivalent
- Organic Chemistry/Biochemistry with Lab: 4 credit hour course or equivalent
- Human Anatomy & Physiology with Lab: 7-8 credit hours or equivalent
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- Human Anatomy (with lab) - 4 credit hours
- Human Physiology - 3-4 credit hours
- Note: Combined Anatomy and Physiology courses are acceptable if they total a minimum of 7 credit hours and include a lab component.
- Statistics: 3 credit hour course or equivalent
- Psychology: 3 credit hour course or equivalent
- Medical Terminology: 1 semester credit hour or an online certification course
- To fulfill the prerequisite requirement, a minimum final course grade of "C" is required for all applicable courses. All prerequisite courses must be completed prior to matriculation. If a candidate is selected for admission with incomplete prerequisite courses, it is a provisional acceptance, and the student must provide proof of successful completion of the courses prior to matriculation.
- Prerequisite course grades of Pass (P), Satisfactory (S), or equivalent for prerequisite courses completed during the spring and summer 2020 semesters that were converted from a letter grade to Pass/Fail or Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory due to COVID adjustments are acceptable. Other courses taken as Pass/Fail will not be considered as a prerequisite course fulfillment.
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Due to the intense nature of the program, prerequisite courses are recommended to be completed no more than seven (7) years from the date of the application. Any prerequisites completed more than seven (7) years from the date of the application will be evaluated by the program on an individual basis.