Bacharel em Ciências da Saúde - Programa Pré-Profissional

If you aspire to a career as a physician, physician’s assistant, dentist, optometrist, veterinarian or another health professional, Wilkes University’s Health Sciences Pre-Professional Program can provide the guidance and experiences you need to advance no matter your academic major.

Hands-on research, personalized attention, and tailored advising for health sciences students prepare you for the competitive application process and rigours of medical, dental and other professional schools.

Wilkes University has a long tradition of educating students who become health care professionals in various community settings. Our strengths in the sciences and the humanities can make you a competitive candidate for professional schools.

The Health Sciences Program at Wilkes offers you a broad choice of professions:

Medical Laboratory Science

Pre-Dental

Pre-Medical: Allopathic of Osteopathic

Pre-Occupational Therapy

Pre-Optometry

Pre-Physical Therapy

Pre-Physician Assistant

Pre-Podiatry

Pre-Veterinary

More than 90% of students who have strong academic and service records, complete the premedical core, and receive letters of evaluation from the Health Sciences Committee, are accepted into professional schools.

Can you picture yourself behind a desk, sharing the most up-to-the-minute news with the public via print, Internet or TV? Do you see yourself behind the scenes, using state-of-the-art audio and video production techniques to make information accessible? Are you curious about the ways media and politics craft the messages they deliver to consumers? Would you like to help a corporation or a non-profit communicate more effectively with their employees and the people they serve?

As a Wilkes University communications studies major, you will choose from one of four concentrations: media production, multimedia journalism, rhetorical studies or strategic communication. Your course of study will feature core communications requirements as well as classes specific to your chosen concentration. The knowledge you develop in the classroom coupled with the hands-on learning you experience through the department’s wide range of co-curricular and extracurricular activities.