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Junior/Senior/Alumni FALL Information Session


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Did you miss the Health Professions Committee Fall Info Session yesterday? Not to worry, we are happy to share what we discussed!

On Monday, October 10th, Mary Lothrop held an information session for all juniors, seniors and local alumni interested in applying to medical, dental or veterinary school to matriculate in the Fall of 2018.

Information from that meeting:

GRE Practice Help


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We recently learned about the Mometrix Academy’s GRE review page.

This page serves as a convenient resource that will allow you to find all the information you need about the GRE test in one place instead of hunting through multiple websites. They also offer GRE practice test questions and tutorial videos that will help prepare you for the test. If you think you already have all the information you need about the GRE, you may start watching the videos right away. If you need to know more, read the whole page to learn everything you need and then watch the prep course.

Academic Advising re: PSYC 0105


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Important Reminder that if you are considering pursuing professional school in the health professions, you should make sure to take PSYC 0105 (Introduction to Psychology) by the end of your sophomore year. There are still openings in PSYC 0105 for the Spring Semester, so if you haven’t taken PSYC 0105 yet, now might be a good time to do so (particularly if you are an upper-classman).

For your planning purposes, here’s a link to the Health Professions Core Requirements: http://www.middlebury.edu/studentlife/cci/healthprofessions/organize/Requirements

Update on 2nd Semester Physics


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The following was an email sent to all undergraduate health professions students on August 8, 2015:

Dear Health Professions Student,

We hope you’ve been having a wonderful summer! Whether at the beach, in the lab, atop a mountain or in a far-flung clinic, we trust that you have had some exceptional experiences these past few weeks and we are eager to welcome you back on campus and hear about your summer.

As many of you have seen in our handouts or learned in our information sessions and advisory meetings, the Middlebury College Department of Physics was working to develop an alternative 2nd semester physics course option for non-physics majors. This course, PHYS 0111, covers optics, thermodynamics and wave theory, all topics which are covered on the MCATS and deemed useful for medical school coursework. Like Newtonian Physics (PHYS 0109), the course has a Calculus I requirement but does not require Calculus II, a requirement for Electricity and Magnetism (PHYS 0110).

Unfortunately, the Department of Physics has let us know that they will not be able to offer PHYS 0111 with a lab in the spring of 2016 as planned. As the lab component is required by medical schools, this will mean that PHYS 0111 will not be an option for satisfying the 2nd semester physics course for pre-medical students. We recognize that many of you have built schedules around the assumption that this physics class would in fact be taught in Spring 2016 and we wanted to give you ample time to reconfigure your schedule if necessary. Please do not hesitate to reach out to us if you’d like to discuss your 2015-2016 course schedule in view of this development.

 

Sincerely,

Mary Lothrop, Director, Health Professions & STEM Advising

Hannah Benz, Health Professions & STEM Advisor

If Students Are Smart, They’ll Major in What They Love


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Curious how your liberal arts degree will make you competitive in the job market?

This is a great article by Cecilia Gaposchkin in The Chronicle of Higher Education.

Graduates majoring in “practical” majors may well start at higher salaries than their counterparts in, say, comparative literature or art history. But as Derek Bok said in Our Underachieving Colleges, we should look at how graduates fare 15 years down the road. Often it is the art historians and anthropology majors, for example, who, having marshaled the abilities of perspective, breadth, creativity, and analysis, have moved a company or project or vision forward. The real investment comes in learning how to think. And the student who has chosen a major based on what she loves has increased the value of that investment. – See more at: http://m.chronicle.com/article/If-Students-Are-Smart/230307/#sthash.yn4j8x6y.M38QjWZ7.dpuf
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