The SAAHP Health Professions Fair for Students will take place this Friday, June 4, both virtually and in-person.

Posted on June 3, 2021 by Carmen Gamlin

The in-person fair will be at the Hyatt Regency San Antonio Riverwalk, and the virtual fair will take place on an online platform accessible from anywhere. This is an excellent opportunity for Pre-Health students and alumni to connect with representatives from health professional schools, associations, and organizations primarily in the Southeastern Region, with 65+ schools and programs represented so far. Pre-Health students and alumni can choose to attend virtually or in-person and registration is FREE.

A list of schools and programs in attendance is available here. Check back regularly for updates, as the list is growing!

SAAHP Health Professions Fair for Students Details

  • Friday, June 4, 2021
  • Health Professions Fair for Virtual Students: 12:00 PM-1:45 PM CT/1:00 PM-2:45 PM ET
  • Health Professions Fair for In-Person Students: 2:00 PM-3:00 PM CT (Hyatt Regency Riverwalk San Antonio – 2nd floor, Regency Center Ballroom)

Benefits of Attendance

Explore various health professions career options – Connect with health professional school admissions staff – Increase knowledge of admission requirements – Consider and compare different schools and programs

Virtual attendees will have the opportunity to win a gift card and in-person attendees will have the opportunity to win a gift card and an iPad.


Registration for the SAAHP Health Professions Fair for Students

Follow these directions closely to register:

  • Visit the registration site:  SAAHP Health Professions Fair for Students Registration
    • Enter your preferred email address and select Continue
    • Enter the Student Code: STUDENT2021 (necessary for complimentary access) (see #1 below)
    • Enter your contact information
    • “Non-SAAHP Membership Type” – select “Non-Member” from the drop-down (see #2 below)
    • “Will you be attending the conference in-person or virtually?” (see #3 below)
      1. Select In-Person if you plan to attend the fair at the Hyatt Regency in San Antonio and also want virtual access
      2. If selecting In-Person, please select “None” for the meal options (no meals are included in the fair)
      3. Select Virtual if you only plan to attend the fair virtually (not planning go to the Hyatt Regency in San Antonio)

Email 2021saahp@gmail.com for any questions.

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Congrats to the Pre-Health Titans Class of 2021!

Posted on May 17, 2021 by Carmen Gamlin

So Proud of all of the Titans launching the the part of their careers. Watch the Engineering and Science Commencement  Ceremony 2021. Enjoy some images of College of Engineering and Science Faculty and Deans in fellowship with graduates after graduation.

Applying to graduate school this Summer 2021?

Gamlin Drop-in Office Hours and Appointments in TEAMS

  • Pre-Health Advising prospective students and Titans
  • Application / Personal Statement / Essay / Grad School Interview Support
  • SCIE 2400 / Workshops
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Get Involved today at SandCastles-Grief Support Program for Children and Families!

Posted on May 11, 2021 by Lalisha Griffin

Kailey, Program Coordinator at Henry Ford SandCastles joined Detroit Mercy’s Pre-Health Advisor, Carmen Gamlin to discussed this Program and it’s many benefits as well as how Titans can sign up to become a volunteer to start as early as this Summer!

We do support groups. So all the families that comes to us have experienced the death of a loved one. For many of the kids in our program and teens that’s a parent or a sibling…but sometimes it’s another caregiver like a grandparent, aunt or uncle, cousin…

About Sandcastles

SandCastles is a Grief Support Program that offers support to children, teens and families who have experienced the death of a loved one. The organization usually meet at one of their 7 program sites. However, due to the current pandemic, their meetings are now held over Zoom. Meetings are held bi-weekly from 6:30 PM-7:30 PM with a mission to provide grief services in ways that are caring, community and education-based and unique to each child, teen and family. 

The kids are kind of grouped with their peers that are around their same age and we do some different activities. Some like crafts, some games…Each kid likes different things. So we try to do like different crafts to try to help them memorialize their person who’s died, or learn like some coping tools, play some different games and just have different discussions to kind of normalize like what it’s like to be a kid and to be experiencing a loss.

Getting Involved!

Becoming a Volunteer at Sand Castles is quite simple! To get started, visit their website at https://aboutsandcastles.org/ there is a get involved tab, you will find the volunteer application and fill that out. Once your application is received at Sandcastles, the organization will perform a background check. After the background check, volunteer applicants will engage in training on how to provide the best coping support to grieving families.

Once you gone through that, if you’re interested in being a facilitator we can put you right in one of our bi-weekly groups. Or we have in August…we’re doing a virtual camp. Normally we do that in person, but this year it will be virtual. Which is kind of like our regular groups but kind of condensed into one weekend and it’s a lot of fun!

For more information on volunteer opportunities or grief support, please visit Sandcastles website! 

 

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Explore A.T. Still University (ATSU)-First in Whole Person Healthcare

Posted on May 4, 2021 by Lalisha Griffin

Pre-Health Advisor, Carmen Gamlin had the opportunity to sit down with Admissions Counselor, Theresa Hunziker, MHA from A.T. Still University (ATSU) for a three question interview about the First in Whole Person Healthcare University.

…Everything effects everything else. There’s a side of healthcare that’s not just the physical side. So understanding that there are personal factors, there are mental factors, there are social factors that effect health. 

About ATSU

I think something that really, kind of sums up who we are and is kind of an essence of our mission is teaching students about that wholestic care; treating the patient as a whole!

ATSU was founded 129 years ago as a Osteopathic School. Today, the University continues it’s Osteopathic lineage with a mission that is grounded on preparing healthcare providers who focuses on caring for the whole patient. In addition, a big part of who ATSU is community health and serving underserved populations.

Since we started as a DO school, we really in all of our programs so in PA, OT, Audiology: even though they are more speciality types of programs, we still are kind of keeping that idea of you’re treating the patient as a whole and you’re concentrating on the patient whenever you are providing care.

Although founded as an Osteopathic University, ATSU offers programs in many other areas of healthcare! Here are the programs offered at A.T. Still University.

Admission Counselor Theresa Hunziker, MHA expresses more about ATSU’s mission, the type of students they look for and how ATSU provides the necessary tools for their students to uphold their mission.

Looking for students that have exposure to underserved populations or really just have a commitment or interest in wanting to give back and help with that problem and giving our students that opportunity in our curriculum to either work in community health centers or work in the community while they’re on campus and work in community service and give back in that way too.

ATSU Community 

ATSU has two locations and each campus’ community and the communities they serve differ from the other. Kirksville, Missouri, which is the original DO school is more of a smaller community. Whereas, their campus in Mesa Arizona is which offers more variety healthcare programs like Dental, PT, OT, and Audiology, is in a bigger city area and larger communities.

Our first campus was in Kirksville, Missouri…Community is a small community, more of a rural commuity; population is about 20,000. So small town, you get that small town community feel and support. We also have a campus in Meza Arizona, which is about 20 minutes from Phoenix…so that’s kind of night and day.

Clinical Rotations

ATSU provides their students the opportunity to treat patients all over; not just in communities they are familiar with.  DO Students are able to do clinical rotations in any of ATSU’s clinical site in the US in their third and fourth year. In addition, Dental Students have the opportunity to do clinical rotations in different locations every few weeks.

One of the neat things about our DO, Dental Program and our PA program too – the rotation sites we have…they’re all across the US!

Something about our Dental Programs is that you do get to do that…During students’ fourth year, we have external rotations as part of our clinical experience they get to go through and we have relationships with community health centers in both the Midwest for Missouri and areas all across the US and for Arizona its in Arizona and areas all across the US too and students will go out a few weeks at a time and they’ll come back.

Admissions Counselor, Theresa Hunziker, MHA shared upcoming Events at A.T. Still University

Please Review Programs ATSU have to offer as well as the events!

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CHM 1030-Chemistry in Society: How Drugs Work with Dr. Mara Livezey

Posted on April 26, 2021 by Lalisha Griffin

Titans and Prospective Titans, Detroit Mercy invites you to explore “How Drugs Work” with Dr. Mara Livezey. Dr. Livezey, Assistant Professor for the Chemistry & Biochemistry Department here at Detroit Mercy has created a Chemistry course that is open to Non-Chemistry Majors. She sat down with Pre-Health Advisor Carmen Gamlin to give an outline of the course, topics of discussions and her hopes for students to be aware of this amazing course that is being offered.

“That’s really why I love this class because it provides me the opportunity to combine chemistry and medicine and impact on real humans.”

The course is broken down into five modules in which students are learning basic Biology and Chemistry. The modules then advances to how drugs impacts the body and the brain and how drugs are used to treat diseases. Dr. Livezey explains that during the CHM 1030 course, each week a new drug is introduced.

“Generally in those weeks, we learn about the history of the drug, the chemistry of the drug and the impact of the drug on society.” 

What’s amazing is, there are no pre-requisites for this course!! Dr. Livezey expresses that this course is designed in a way that those who do not have a science background can come in and learn and follow alone! This class is for everyone!

“I love this class and I just want students to know it exist!”

Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry, teaches biochemistry and organic chemistry. Livezey’s research and publications focus on understanding the molecular mechanisms of a protective and pro-growth pathway in breast, ovarian, and uterine cancers. Additionally, her lab is interested in drug development and acquiring a deeper understanding of a pre-clinical anti-cancer drug that lethally targets Estrogen Receptor-positive cancers. Livezey is a recipient of a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship and served as a Fulbright Scholar in Macedonia. Livezey received her B.A. in Chemistry from Kalamazoo College and Ph.D. in Biochemistry from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. She joined the University in 2018.

livezemr@udmercy.edu

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Medical Virtual School Fair and Telemedicine in the time of COVID19

Posted on April 19, 2021 by Carmen Gamlin

 

The American Association of Colleges of Podiatric Medicine would like to invite you to register for the Virtual Podiatric Medical School Fair on April 24 from 11AM to 6PM eastern.

Representatives from all nine U.S. schools of podiatric medicine will be available during the day to chat.  Have questions about our COVID19 admissions modifications?  This is your chance to ask your questions! Additionally, we’ll have current students, faculty and DPMs available to share why they chose podiatric medicine.

Chat with Special Guests Dr David Schweibish and Dr. Dariya Peretta from 1pm to 3pm ET.

1-2pm ET  General Q&A

2-3pm ET Telemedicine in the time of COVID19

We are also excited to announce a session for any student to “Ask a Pre-Health Advisor” about your path to a career in medicine.

Special guest Ms Emily Olson from Iowa State University will be in our booth answering general pre-med questions from 12pm to 1pm ET and again from 4:30pm to 6pm ET.

See yourself in a white coat when you Discover Podiatric Medicine.  Registration is available here:

http://careereco.com/events/podiatry

We look forward to meeting you then!

If you are in need of pre-health advising and plan to be a University of Detroit Mercy student then schedule an appointment with Carmen Gamlin via https://calendly.com/prehealthadvisor

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LECOM’s Early Acceptance Program for Medical School: 3+4 and 4+4 Programs

Posted on April 18, 2021 by Lalisha Griffin

LECOM has developed special Early Acceptance Programs with select community colleges, undergraduate colleges and universities that grant qualified students a provisional early acceptance to LECOM’s  College of Osteopathic Medicine.

We have a recent agreement with your University in which we can save a seat for you two or three years down the road-Jamie Murphy

We do not look at this Early Acceptance Program as your only option. We don’t want to push anyone or pressure anyone but there are a lot of great advantages of this! Even if you’re a student who doesn’t know right now, you’re not sure what you want to do-the fact that you are attending an affiliated school is a huge advantage too. You get your final year and you want to apply, you were apart of the Early Acceptance, you still have a leg up on all the competition essentially.

LECOM’s Director of Student Affairs Jamie Murphy joined us again to specifically discuss LECOM’s Early Acceptance Program, Detroit Mercy’s Affiliation and how Pre-Med Titans can get started on their journey to becoming a Physician! The Information Session briefly covered LECOM’s History and Mission, student expectations and LECOM’s Student-Centered Curriculum. In addition, Jamie outlined some Key Points concerning the Early Acceptance Program

  1. Affiliation Program-Tracks
  2. Tuition & Application Expenses
  3. Enrollment Process
  4. Pre-Professional Requirements 

LECOM’s History & Mission 

There’s no school out there that’s not going to be able to get you where you need to go, its a matter of what fits. What works for you!

Jamie provided LECOM’s mission, really focusing in on their part of the mission that states “excellence in education, research, clinical care, and community service” stating that everything comes back to the Mission and the purpose!

Everything we did had to tie back to our mission! What is the purpose of existing? And that is to prepare you to be a Physician...also are role in the community!

LECOM’s Expectation of Students

LECOM focuses on developing professionaism in their Medical students. LECOM students follow a dress code and an attendance policy. Jamie Murphy explains the purpose of the dress code and mandatory attendance.

The purpose of the dress code is to put you in the mind set of learning! And not that you are not already there…we don’t teach you to be professional…but this is a different kind of occupation! A physician is the pillar of the community! It is among the occupations that are most important!…The dress code essentially, is to put you in the mindset of going to work!

Student-Centered Pathways

LECOM has student-centered curriculum and offers five different pathways for students. These pathways are only offered at LECOM’s Medical School.  Those are Lecture Discussion Pathway, Problem-Based Learning Pathway, Directed Study Pathway, Primary Care Scholars Pathway and Accelerated Physician Assistant Pathway. These are designed with the mindset that everyone is different and learn differently!

The reason why we have this, and this is only for the first two years of Med School is that everyone is different!

Early Acceptance Program

Affiliation Tracks 3+4 and 4+4

The University of Detroit Mercy has both the 4+4 and the 3+4 programs which permit Titans to start Medical School at LECOM prior to receiving a bachelor degree from Detroit Mercy. Do you know what that means Titans? This is a 7-Year Med Program! One year of schooling and tuition saved!

Your seat is saved…so 210 students are coming in 2021 with a saved seat to LECOM, all campuses. So there’s a lot of students we work with that knew back in 2017 that they’re seat was saved! They did not have to turn in an official application through Oconus, which cost $185, they did not have to do an MCAT!

Tuition & Application Expenses

Tuition at LECOM is the lowest of any Private Osteopathic School! Jamie Murphy explains that on average, a student spends about 3-5 thousand dollars during the application process, when you add up everything! The benefit of the Early Acceptance Program is that you cut down that cost by not having to apply to more than one school and travel for interviews!

To apply, you apply through the LECOM portal, and that is free! 

Enrollment Process & Requirements

  • 1240 SAT or 26 ACT
  • College Overall GPA of 3.4
  • Science GPA of 3.2

So the requirement is a 1240 SAT or a 26 ACT. If you’re 1230 or 1210 or 25, we can still consider you. However, your GPA has to go up a couple tics to pull up that Academic Index Score!

As for the enrollment window, you can enroll into the Early Acceptance Program as early as your senior year of high school. As far Pre-Med Titans, Jamie says it comes down to if you have two years remaining as a full-time student! If you do, you still can apply for the Early Acceptance Program.

You go to the portal for the inquiry as we call it, we send you a password to get the application, you interview with us, you get the letter.

Pre-Professional Requirements

  • Biology (w/lab) (8 cr.) 
  • General Chemistry (w/lab) (8 cr.)
  • Organic Chemistry (w/lab) (8 cr.)
  • Physics (w/lab) (4 cr.)
  • Biochemistry (may be used as a substitute for 2nd Organic) (3 cr.)
  • Genetics (3 cr.)
  • Behavioral Sciences (6 cr.)
  • English (6cr.)

We do require these classes and these are pretty straight forward. Biochemistry and Genetics is not required for the typical student; but because you would most likely not be taking the MCAT, we want you to take these classes. 

Jamie Murphy provided contact information for students who want to learn more about LECOM and the Early Acceptance Program

If you are in need of pre-health advising and plan to be a University of Detroit Mercy student then schedule an appointment with Carmen Gamlin via https://calendly.com/prehealthadvisor

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Wayne State University School of Medicine Info Session Today – March 30 at 1:00

Posted on March 30, 2021 by Carmen Gamlin

Carmen Gamlin, Pre-Health Advisor is inviting you to a Zoom Information Session for WSU School of Medicine.

Dawn Yargeau, Director of Admissions will be facilitating from WSUSOM and hosted by the Pre-Med Club

Beyond basic admissions, the topics would include:
  • The change in Early Decision Program, 
  • Formal gap year programs versus create your own (does it make a difference?) 
  • How the HPSP works for medical students (clinicals or residencies) 
  • How clinical sites connects with the Match event that is in the news these days. 

Time: Mar 30, 2021 01:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)

Join Zoom Meeting

https://udmercy-edu.zoom.us/j/92838121012?pwd=dStHWDB3SFVTRmNxZDN5aEsySStQQT09

Meeting ID: 928 3812 1012

Passcode: 184640

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Detroit Mercy Pre-Health Advisor Gets Titans Prepared with Pop-In Advising, Workshops and Mini-Sessions!

Posted on March 30, 2021 by Lalisha Griffin

Pre-Health Titans, it is never too early to start preparing for the next chapter of your life!

Rather you are currently a freshman, just starting your undergraduate career or you are a senior Titan preparing to apply for professional or graduate school, the Pre-Health Department at Detroit Mercy wants to help you get prepared for life after Undergrad! Pre-Health Advisor Carmen Gamlin has created workshops and mini session targeted to your specific audience and specific field of study!

  1. Mon, Apr 5 at 1:00 PM   Mtg ID: 941 5426 5781   Passcode: 564445

  2. Tues, Apr 6 4:30 PM Mtg ID: 933 0288 4225  Passcode: 047208

  3. Wed, Apr 7 at 2:00 PM  Mtg ID: 951 0891 2467  Passcode: 620894

  4. Thurs, Apr 8 at 1:00 PM Mtg ID: 936 5427 6980​  Passcode: 430452

  5. Fri Apr 9 at 2:00 PM  Mtg ID: 977 2590 1342  Passcode: 756272

  1. April 5, Monday 8:30 am​
  2. April 6, Tuesday 830 am​
  3. April 7, Wednesday 8:30 am​
  4. April 8, Thursday 8:30 am​
  5. April 9, Friday 8:30 am ​

Wednesdays in TEAMS

Fridays in TEAMS

What you need may be available in one of the workshops this semester. Individual appointments are available via the Calendly app – https://calendly.com/prehealthadvisor

Links to All workshops and Interview Practice

If you are in need of pre-health advising and plan to be a University of Detroit Mercy student then schedule an appointment with Carmen Gamlin via https://calendly.com/prehealthadvisor

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Explore Central Michigan University College of Medicine

Posted on March 26, 2021 by Lalisha Griffin

I tell students that as you’re looking at different medical schools CMED, any of the other ones in the state of Michigan or really anywhere for graduate school, a big thing prior to even applying is to learn about what that school is looking for, what that school is about, and what the curriculum is.-Ray Wilson

This past Tuesday, University of Detroit Mercy Pre-Health Department had the opportunity to learn about CMU’s College of Medicine with Assistant Director of Admissions & Financial Aid Ray Wilson. Our very own Pre-Medicine Titan Farzad Baghaie Co-Host this Session. Detroit Mercy Titans if you were unable to attend the session, you will have the opportunity to view the Session in this week’s SWAY! The Information Session covers five key points.

  1. CMU College of Medicine (CMED) Mission Statement
  2. About CMED 
  3. CMED Curriculum 
    1. System Based
    2. Team & problem Based
  4. Clinical Years
  5. Admission Requirements 

Mission Statement

Central Michigan University College of Medicine’s Mission Statement focuses most on educating and training students from diverse cultures and background and hones in on providing healthcare to underserved populations. 

One of our main focuses there is to underserved populations…Underserved medical communities are really the backbone of what the need of the state of Michigan is.

Always when you’re looking at different med schools, start off with their mission statement. Gain a little bit of knowledge just right there because if they put a lot of thought and effort into including it in their mission statement it means that’s who they are and what they’re looking for.

About CMED

“Were pretty much all across the state in some capacity…”

The College of Medicine first class was in 2013. The average class size each year is 104. There are five locations; Mt. Pleasant MI, which is the main campus, Saginaw, Lakeland, Detroit and Midland. Students will attend the Mt. Pleasant location their pre-clinical years, which is year 1-2. During years 3-4, which are clinical years, students will be in one of the four Clinical locations which are Saginaw, Lakeland, Detroit or Midland. CMED has a large number of healthcare affiliations. However, the main ones are Covenant Health Care in Saginaw, Ascension St. John’s in Detroit, Mid Michigan Health in Midland, Spectrum Health in Lakeland, Children’s Hospital of Michigan in Troy, and Ascension St. Mary’s in Saginaw.

Just because you don’t see something listed on here doesn’t mean that students aren’t doing clinical experiences in a variety of different locations. Were pretty much all across the state in some capacity but it just kind of depends on what rotation you’re doing, when you’re doing it and a variety of different factors. Those are some of our primary ones that you’ll be seeing as a student within the college of medicine. 

One of our newer ones is Children’s Hospital of Michigan in Troy…Were really proud of that and it’s expanded our pediatric offers significantly in the last year and a half since that affiliation came on board.

CMED Curriculum 

Assistant Director Ray Wilson explains how the CMED curriculum is different than the traditional Medical School curriculum. The Curriculum includes System Based and Team Based & Problem Based Learning.

“It’s been proven that this type of curriculum bolts very well for extended learning.”

A. System Based

The System Based are in years 1-2 and includes courses like Essentials of Clinical Skills and Society and Community Medicine.

What ours does and definitely the new trend within the College of Medicine curriculums is to teach it in a system-based approach with longitudinal courses mixed in and what those longitudinal courses are is courses in things like essential for clinical skills which is where you learn things like how to enter a patient’s room and how to take a chart down and just interacting with a patient to begin with…Then as you get into the different systems, you learn how to do an exam in different topics that you’re covering in each specific system moving forward.

B. Team & Problem Based 

Team & Problem Based is case based learning formats based on current system rotation. During this time students will be placed in small groups of 13 classmates for the entire year.

Were looking at combining students who come from different undergraduate schools, from different racial and ethnic background, different socioeconomic backgrounds, different majors and minors all of those different things so that you really learn what it’s like to work with new people in a different environment that have different backgrounds because really as a medical professional going forward, that is the most important thing you can possibly learn in medical school is how to work with everyone else. You could never possibly be the expert on everything.

Clinical Years

Students at Central Michigan University College of Medicine completes Comprehensive Community Clerkship during their clinical years. The Longitudinal Clerkship takes place for 5 months and students spend 2.5 days per week with a primary care provider at varied locations across Michigan. 

Why do we do that? The biggest thing is that we want to immerse you into the primary care experience and no this not just a family medicine doctor necessarily. It could be an OBGYN, it could be internal medicine, it could be emergency medicine in a smaller community; there’s a lot of different things.

“Primary care by definition is those who we see first!”

We do it for the full five months rather than most programs, a max of 8 weeks because we want you to start learning the trends. We want you to see things that come up on a regular basis.

Admission Requirements

These are the Admission Requirements for CMU College of Medicine.

  • Bachelor’s Degree (By time you enroll)
  • Minimum of 3.25 GPA
  • 500 MCAT
  • 3-5 Letter of Recommendation (Secondary Application)
  • Secondary Application Essay
  • US Citizen or Permanent Resident
  • Canadian Citizen or Permanent Resident
  • Recommend 200+ hours in Clinical, Volunteer/Community Service, Leadership & Research

*Top Tier applicants have 1000+ hours*

Ray Wilson offers advice to students who are applying to medical school.

You need to be strategic about your application…Yes, there is definitely an advantage to applying early but a thorough and really well-submitted application is much better!

Want to learn more about Central Michigan University College of Medicine? Contact them today!! Email: cmedadmit@cmich.edu Phone: (989) 885-7882

If you are in need of pre-health advising and plan to be a University of Detroit Mercy student then schedule an appointment with Carmen Gamlin via https://calendly.com/prehealthadvisor

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