Denison Magazine
Pre-Medicine, Pre-Health
Denison graduates find meaningful careers in medicine and healthcare. These rapidly changing fields — evolving to meet new challenges and opportunities — benefit from the rigorous academics and lifelong learning habits gained at Denison.
Tessa Carrel
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Assistant Professor, Pre-Health Faculty Advisor
How does Denison prepare you for careers in medicine and healthcare?
Our rigorous liberal arts education, faculty mentors, and multiple research and co-curricular opportunities prepare you in the professional, science, thinking, and reasoning competencies medical schools are looking for.
Denison offers medical- and healthcare-focused career and academic advising, academic tutoring, test preparation, and more. You’ll integrate real-world problem-solving across the curriculum today, and in Denison’s center for data sciences, a strategic response to a world teeming with data, opening in Fall 2026.
Academic Advising
The pre-health faculty advisor works with you and your primary advisor to navigate the course prerequisites needed for each health career pathway. In addition, they help you build the professional competencies necessary to become a competitive applicant to your graduate programs of choice.
Career Advising
The Knowlton Center offers you career-specific resources and support, including dedicated career coaches in the Health Care, Clinical Research, & Wellness career community, as well as assistance with mock interviews, graduate school preparation/application, and your job search.
Tutoring
The Academic Resource Center helps with classroom skills like time management, test preparation, and study strategies, and can connect you with tutoring support. Additionally, our Peer Learning Strategist Program connects science students with a peer mentor who advises them on metacognitive skills to help them study more efficiently and learn more effectively.
Peer Support
Enjoy the support of peers who share your interest in pre-health careers in any of several student organizations and as a member of Alpha Epsilon Delta, the national pre-health honor society.
Alumni Support
Denison alums in various healthcare careers are available to talk with you about your career preparation and plans. The Knowlton Career Center offers networking events. Students can also contact alums easily through the Ask a Denisonian program.
Healthcare Experiential Learning Opportunities
Denison offers you many opportunities to get your feet on the ground in a healthcare setting, including the Community Health Coach Program, shadowing a physician at Licking Memorial Hospital, and Denison-exclusive internships.
What you’ll study for careers in medicine and health
Denison students in every academic discipline can take the required prerequisites for their post-graduate degree, within or alongside their major. The pre-health faculty advisor works with you and your primary advisor to navigate course prerequisites. These are the four most common majors leading to careers in medicine and health.
Careers in medicine and health
In addition to a Denison degree, your prerequisite courses prepare you for post-graduate programs and careers in a wide array of medicine and health fields, as physicians, dentists, veterinarians, physical and occupational therapists, and more. See where our grads have landed.
Career communities
Students interested in medicine and health careers often join one or more of our career communities. The most common community for students interested in a career in healthcare is the Healthcare, Clinical Research, & Wellness community.
Career Exploration
Through the Knowlton Center for Career Exploration and its training center, Denison Edge, career coaches help you prepare for the next step after college, and industry experts help you acquire specialized skills and certifications.
Denison graduates have recently matriculated to these graduate programs
Beyond the Classroom
While you complete the prerequisites for your post-graduate program, you can take advantage of all the opportunities that make college a life-shaping experience, such as taking a study abroad, participating in athletics and the arts, and working directly with faculty mentors on meaningful research. In addition, you will gain many of these skills through co-curricular activities, student organizations, service opportunities, fraternity and sorority life, arts, athletics, and more. See ways to get involved.
Internships
Explore career paths through an internship (or two!). Denison students pursuing careers in medicine and health have interned with Pennsylvania State University, the American International Health Alliance, the University of Minnesota, the University of Iowa and more
Study Abroad
Pursue your interest in health and medicine in your chosen region to enhance your language skills and build your career network. Conduct research on a traditional semester abroad or take a summer internship in another country.
Summer Scholars
Delve into independent research through our Summer Scholars program. All Summer Scholars receive a stipend and a housing allowance plus supplemental funds for research expenses.
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