Personalizing the World of Medicine | Pre-Med at Houghton

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So why would you want to come to a halt in college in particular? Well, one of the reasons is that hands on attention, personal investment that you'll get female professors. So each one of our laboratories are run by the professor who is teaching you in the classroom. Uh, we will be able to work with you to understand the material to be able to further your understanding of how that applies to World War application and to be able to talk to you about what that means in terms of your career goals and your faith, one of the labs that we have is what we're standing in right now and you'll see that it is small. It allows for us to be able to be intentional with the work that we're doing. It also allows us to be able to interact with you and to be able to talk to you about your work that you're doing and making sure that you truly understand the reason that we're doing the various experiments in the lab, we believe in hands on instruction. So instead of just showing you an experiment, we want you to do the experiment. We want you to have the opportunity to be able to work with the materials to be able to accrue that type of knowledge as well as skill set. Not only will you be given an academic advisor in general, but that person will be someone within the major with whom you're pursuing and likely a specialist or a person that really has an idea of the field that you plan on pursuing. So that we not only can choose the classes that are important for your major, but that would be most beneficial for your career and what you plan on doing for the rest of your life. Because we are a small institution are pre health program allows for us to be able to work very closely with our students in particular. We have a variety of course work there specifically geared towards being able to help you in that preparation. There are some of our advanced classes such as our new clinical medicine course, Introduction to Clinical medicine where you have the opportunity not only to learn about some of the systems based medicine, but you'll also be able to be with our campus physician in his clinic off campus to be able to see patients and shadow with him. We also have opportunities for you to be able to spend time in the summer with an alumnus of the institution where you will live with them in an opportunity to get to see what their practice looks like, what home life looks like in the immigration of their faith in there. So it shows up on your transcript that you've participated in such. We also have opportunities for students as early as their sophomore year to obtain the basic training as an E. M. T. And then volunteer with a local E. M. S. Crew to be able to go on calls within the community. Not only does that give you hands on skills in the medical field. Not only does it give you opportunities to actually write down how many hours you've completed by being able to have exposure, but it also gives you a way to serve the community. Because we are a small community, the students are a very important part of that community service in providing emergency healthcare for people that may need it and need to be able to transport it to the hospital system. We also have a pretty large pre health club and the pre health club. Not only do they get together to be able to provide a mentorship to be able to let students see other students talk to them, interact with them to get guidance to figure out what we're great classes. What were some things that you would like to do, What would you encourage me to do? But also allows for us to be able to bring in special speakers and people from the community and other types of institutions, medical schools and programs to be able to talk with students about some of those pathways that they could take. Not only do we want to be able to encourage you about the pathway that you have of interest, but we want to make sure that you're aware of all the other fields of medicine that are out there because likely you will interact with them at some point in your career, we want to make sure that you choose the one that is best fitting for your calling and your gifts, as well as being aware of what other types of practices are out there that you may be referring your patients to someday. We also want to make sure that those who are in the community were helping in the community, so we help with the local blood drive, so when the Red Cross comes in town, the health professions club is the one that helps to organize that they run the front entrance and get the procedures in place. They don't do any of the actual blood work, but they help to be able to make sure that we're also giving back to the community in those types of rums. There are other opportunities, besides just having an advisor that will be specific for the pre health professions, we will also have opportunities to be able to engage with many of the schools in which we already have affiliations with, so if you're interested in particular program, we have pathways to be able to help you get there quicker and be able to obtain a guaranteed seat within those programs, either within three years of your completion of your degree at Houghton or within four years, so we have opportunities to be able to help you think about those fields and to be able to have pathways to get to them quickly rapidly and with the rigor and intensity that you should come to expect from hope.