卫生专业咨询委员会(HPAC)在几个层面上指导健康预科学生. 委员会与职业及专业发展署署长紧密合作，为申请人提供策略性指引，使其成为具竞争力的申请人, as well as guidance for the application and interview process. 许多学前健康专业课程强烈鼓励学生接受学校HPAC的评估. 学生可以在申请时获得HPAC的评估信. 学生通常在大三开始申请专业学校. 然而, 全国趋势表明，学生将申请职业学校推迟到大学四年级或更晚, after they have gained firsthand experience in their field of interest.

公认的卫生专业

The following health professions will be 被认为是 评价: Medical, Dental, Veterinary, Physician Assistant, Optometry, and Pharmacy. 如果您不申请上述任何一个字段，则无需填写申请. 

评价标准及应用

请注意:接受HPAC的最低资格实际上是接受专业课程的最低标准. 这些最低标准远远低于成功进入所选专业的候选人的平均水平. Strong candidates will exceed these minimum requirements.

HPAC Letter of Evaluation Requirements

To be 被认为是 for a letter of evaluation from HPAC, students must meet the following requirements:

1. 累积绩点必须达到3分.在提交申请时，如果你的累积GPA在评估过程中低于此要求，则为25分, you will no longer be 被认为是 for evaluation).

2. Must have a BCPM (生物学, 化学, Physics, Math) GPA of 3.在提交申请时，如果您的BCPM GPA在评估过程中低于此要求，则为25分, you will no longer be 被认为是 for evaluation).

3. 在提交申请时，必须已经获得至少60个学分的大学学分.

4. Must have completed one full semester at St. 在2023年春季学期结束前完成爱德华大学(最少15个学分).

5. 在提交申请时，必须在您感兴趣的专业领域有第一手经验(至少50小时). Examples include: clinical volunteering, 阴影, 任务之旅, 诊所工作, 医院, 或者健康专家的办公室. 我们也愿意考虑 一些 现场虚拟阴影的形式，但我们不会考虑预先录制的YouTube视频.

6. [PLEASE NOTE THIS EVENTS REQUIREMENT IS CURRENTLY SUSPENDED. Involvement in the pre-health community on campus is still encouraged; see below for ways to be involved.] 自进入St .以来，每年平均参加四次活动(由HPAC或Pre-健康 Professions主办). 365比分网电竞, and prior to the application year. Exceptions will be 被认为是 on a case-by-case basis.

7. 在提交申请时必须从事过校园和/或社区服务/志愿服务(至少30小时).

8. 必须提交评估信吗. Evaluators should know an applicant well enough to evaluate him/her, and can come from a variety of sources. Potential evaluators may include work or volunteer supervisors, health care professionals that you shadowed, 大学教职员工, 等.

现任HPAC成员 不能 提供这个评估. Letters will only be accepted via PDF for the Fall 2023 application cycle. PDF letters must be emailed directly from the letter writer to kgoldey@dektinary.com.

Letter writers should refer to page 2 of the AAMC信函写作指南 and pay special attention to the competencies listed (Thinking & Reasoning, Science, Interpersonal, Intrapersonal).

Letters must be received by 5pm on Friday, October 27, 2023.

9. 如果HPAC在评估过程中发现任何不专业或不道德的行为, we reserve the right to eliminate a candidate from the process. 

Students must submit the completed application no later than 5pm on Friday, October 27, 2023. 我们鼓励您立即在Microsoft Word文档中开始撰写论文, which can be pasted into the application. Keep in mind that this is an evaluative process, 一份完整的申请并不能保证面试或评估信.

免责声明: 请记住，卫生专业咨询委员会的所有成员都是强制性的第九条记者. As such, we will be required to report to St. 你的申请材料中是否有关于性骚扰的信息, 性侵犯, 跟踪, dating/relationship or domestic violence, or hate crimes based on gender or gender expression.

请记住，如果你被选中参加面试，这个免责声明也适用于你的委员会面试.

HPAC 2023-2024应用链接

2023-2024年评估时间表

  • HPAC评估申请将于2023年9月8日星期五开始 .
  • HPAC Evaluation Applications are due by 5pm on October 27, 2023.
  • 入选的候选人将在2024年1月初至2月底期间接受委员会的面试.
  • 委员会在2月底/ 3月初举行会议，对所有候选人进行评估和评估.
  • 在信函写作过程开始之前，HPAC主席和学院联络员将与每个学生会面，以传达需要改进的地方.
  • 整个春季学期, 学生需要撰写和编辑多份个人陈述草稿. 在此期间，学生们还将参加入学考试.
  • 大多数情况下，专业课程的申请通常在5月初或6月开放.
  • If a student plans on using the HPAC letter of evaluation, he or she must submit their professional program applications no later than June 30, 2024, regardless of application service.
  • 所有二级申请必须在学生收到申请后两周内提交.

政策 for Returning Applicants and 校友

寻求HPAC评估的校友将根据以下准则进行考虑:

你以前有过吗? completed the HPAC evaluation process, including application and interviews with the committee?

  • 如果是这样的话, you must contact the current HPAC Chair, Katy Goldey (kgoldey@dektinary.com), with your intent to apply to your respective health professions program. 你必须通知主席 2023年12月1日下午5点前.
  • If warranted, you may be asked to re-interview with the committee. 如果您没有与任何当前HPAC成员面谈，则需要填写. 在其他情况下，你是否会被要求重新面试由主席决定.
  • 你也可以 请求 重新面试，即使你之前面试过HPAC的现任成员. 如果你已经做了实质性的改变来提高你在项目中的竞争力，这是明智的.
  • 你还必须提交一份最新的简历，以及一页关于你离开圣. 365比分网电竞.
  • Returning applicants will be 被认为是 for up to 5 years after graduation.

你是校友吗 did not apply for an evaluation from HPAC when you were a student?

  • 如果是这样的话, 你可以向HPAC提交评估申请，以便在毕业后最多5年内进行面试.
  • Be mindful that your application must follow the 完全相同的 requirements, criteria, and deadlines as current students who are applying.

现任委员会成员

  • Katy Goldey, HPAC Chair, Associate Professor of 行为神经科学
  • Lisa Goering, HPAC学院联络员，生物科学副教授
  • Becca Thompson, Assistant Professor of 化学
  • Jack Musselman, Associate Professor of 哲学
  • Claire Edwards, Assistant Professor of 生物科学
  • Donna Beuk, Founding Director of 护理, Professor of 护理
  • Katy Allen, Assistant Professor of 护理

St. 爱德华前健康社区

参与St. 强烈鼓励爱德华的前健康社区，它可以加强你对卫生专业项目的准备. 资源 for becoming involved include: