Pre-Professional Health Advising

Dr. Sharon Babcock, Director
Phone: (540) 568-6652
Email: pph@jmu.edu
Website: http://www.jmu.edu/pph

Pre-professional health (PPH) advisory programs outline recommended courses, activities and competencies for students who are preparing for careers in health professions that require masters or doctoral education. PPH programs are advisory; they are not undergraduate majors, minors, concentrations or tracks.

Health profession schools are most concerned with the overall scope and quality of an applicant’s undergraduate performance. Students are encouraged to select a major based on interests and aptitudes. Regardless of baccalaureate degree program, competitive applicants must demonstrate excellence in academic accomplishments, prerequisite course work, career exploration, health-related experience, community service and standardized admission tests, as well as intra- and inter-personal competencies. Students are encouraged to establish mentoring relationships with faculty, clinical mentors and supervisors. Pre-professional health advisers are available to assist students in making academic and career-related decisions. Planning and evaluation services are available for students and alumni during the application process to health profession schools.

Requests from current students to declare a PPH minor are reviewed by Pre-Professional Health Advising prior to assigning an advisor. . If the minor has admission standards, those standards will be reviewed prior to approving the declaration request.

Programs

• Pre-Athletic Training Minor
• Pre-Dentistry
• Pre-Medicine
• Pre-Occupational Therapy
• Pre-Optometry
• Pre-Pharmacy
• Pre-Physical Therapy
• Pre-Physician Assistant
• Pre-Veterinary Medicine