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Finding Your Way to a Career in the Health Professions

Prepared by Dr. Ted Johnson
johnsont@stolaf.edu
RHS 366 (x3392)

2010

Edited by Anna Bernard '12
Biomedical Studies Coordinator, Piper Center for Vocation and Career

I. Introduction

• Preface
  
• Health Professions Committee
  

II. Planning Your Undergraduate Degree

• Advising
  
• Making Choices/Finding Your Career Path
  
• Biomedical Studies Concentration
  
• What is Experiential Learning?
  

III. Careers in the Health Professions

• Exposure to Careers in the Health Professions
  
• What is available in the health care arena?
• Health Professions Highlights
• Course of Study in Preparation for a Career in the Health Professions
• Choosing a Major
• Biomedical Studies Concentration
• Time-table

IV. Applying to Graduate School

• Selection Criteria
  
• Application Process
  
• What's Next?
  • 10 Common Mistakes

V. Appendices

• Appendix A: Now What?
• Appendix B: Informational Interviews
• Appendix C: Job Shadowing
• Appendix D: U of MN Dental School Statistics
• Appendix E: Information Sheet for Prospective Health Professions Students
• Appendix F: Information Sheet for Health Professions Committee
• Appendix G: Reference Form
• Appendix H: Information Sheet for Recommendation Letters
• Appendix I: Key World Wide Web Sites
• Sign up for the Health Professions Committe Email Alias

Want a paper copy of the handbook? Go here for a download.

For more information, please see the websites of St. Olaf's Biomedical Studies Program or the Piper Center.