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Title: 2020-2021 Committee Letter and Letter Packet Applicants Pre-Health Group Advising Online Session
Description: The Pre-Health Advising Office will hold a group advising session for 2020-2021 Committee Letter and Letter Packet applicants to address your concerns regarding test-taking(MCAT, DAT &OAT), the application timeline, and Committee Letter decisions and letter writer assignments.
Title: Dissecting the Dental (AADSAS) Application Process: Packaging yourself for Success
Description: This presentation will cover the anatomy of the dental school application process. You will receive insights on the application process from a successful 2019-2020 AADSAS applicant, who received acceptances to Columbia University College of Dental Medicine, Stony Brook University School of Dental Medicine, New York University College of Dentistry, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey School of Dental Medicine, University of Pittsburgh School of Dental Medicine, University of California, San Francisco School of Dentistry (UCSF) and University at Buffalo School of Dental Medicine
Target audience: 2020-2021 applicants
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Title: Doctor Speaker Series-Francesca Voza, MD
Description: Join us for an engaging discussion with Hunter College alum Francesca Voza. Francesca is currently a fourth-year medical student at Weill Cornell Medical College. Francesca will begin her residency in general surgery at University of Miami Health System.
Title: Dissecting the AMCAS application of A Successful Applicant: Packaging yourself for success
Description: This presentation will cover the anatomy of an AMCAS application. You will receive insights on the application process from a successful 2019-2020 applicant to medical school who has been accepted to several medical schools which include, NYU Grossman School of Medicine, University of Michigan Medical School, Duke University School of Medicine, Renaissance School of Medicine at Stony Brook University, SUNY Downstate College of Medicine.
Target audience: 2020-2021 & 2021-2022 applicants
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Title: Financing Your Medical School Education
Description: LaVerne Walker from The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Financial Aid Office will present detailed information about the costs of attending medical school, and information will be presented about resources and scholarships that can help you finance your medical or other health professional education.
Topics include:
The Financial Aid Process
Medical School Costs & Budget
Determining Financial Aid Awards
Categories of Financial Aid
Medical School Debt
This is a required application planning workshop.
Title: Methods in Narrative Medicine Workshop Series # 1
Description: The Pre-Health Advising Office in partnership Columbia University’s Masters Program in Narrative Medicine will be offering a Methods in Narrative Medicine workshop series. This Basic Workshops provides an intensive introductory experience to the methods and skills of Narrative Medicine. These intensive workshops will offer rigorous skill-building in narrative competence. Participants will learn effective techniques for attentive listening, adopting others’ perspectives, accurate representation, and reflective reasoning. Sessions will focus on reconceptualizing empathy, narrative ethics, bearing witness, and illness narratives. Professionalism, cultural competence, bioethical competence, interpersonal communication skills, self-reflective practice, and ability to work with health care teams can be strengthened by increasing narrative competence.
You may also include this experience on your application to health professional schools.
Title: Prestigious Scholarships 101 for Pre-Health Students
Description: Come to hear about fellowship opportunities and why they are important to your future as a scientist and health professional.
Stephen Lassonde, Director of Hunter’s Office of Prestigious Scholarships & Fellowships will discuss individual fellowships, internships, and the elements of the application process.
Title: Health Policy Speaker Series: Dr. William L. Schpero-The Economics of Pandemic
Description: Joins us for a health policy talk with Dr. William L. Schpero, an Assistant Professor in the division of Health Policy and Economics Department of Healthcare Policy and Research at the Joan & Sanford I. Weill Medical College.
He studies Medicaid and the health care safety net in the United States. Through his research, he aims to inform federal and state policy, as well as the work of health care providers and organizations that serve vulnerable and high-need, high-cost patient populations. He received his Ph.D. from Yale University and his undergraduate degree from Dartmouth College.
Talk Topics:
• 1. The Economics of Pandemic Response
• 2. Health Care Spending in the United States: Why Are We Such An Outlier?
Strongly recommended for 2020-2021 & 2021-2022 applicants. The topics discussed will help you to prepare for upcoming applicant interviews.
Title: Preparing Your Secondary Essays for Health Profession Applications
Description: This online workshop will cover everything you need to know about writing your secondary essays for medical, dental, vet, or other health profession applications, including:
Why secondary essays are a critical component of your health profession application,
•A review of common secondary essay questions,
• Tips for how to write effective secondary essays,
•Tips for what to avoid in writing your secondary essays,
•Organizing the completion of your secondary essays, and
•The timing for submitting your secondary essays.
Sample secondary essays will be reviewed and copies will be available.
This is a required application planning workshop
for Committee Letter and Letter Packet recipients.
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Title: Pharmacy Career Planning 101- How to become a Pharmacist
Description: Join us for a pharmacy information session. Come and learn about Touro College Of Pharmacy.
Title: Pharmacy Career Planning 101- How to become a Pharmacist
Description: Join us for a pharmacy information session. Come and learn about Touro College Of Pharmacy. Topics to be covered include:
• Top 10 reasons to pursue a PharmD career
• Careers options and earnings potential for PharmD
• Touro College of Pharmacy’s unique 2.5/1.5 program
• Pre-requisite courses and admissions requirements
Title: Methods in Narrative Medicine Workshop Series #3
Description: The Pre-Health Advising Office in partnership Columbia University’s Masters Program in Narrative Medicine will be offering a Methods in Narrative Medicine workshop series. This Basic Workshops provides an intensive introductory experience to the methods and skills of Narrative Medicine. These intensive workshops will offer rigorous skill-building in narrative competence. Participants will learn effective techniques for attentive listening, adopting others’ perspectives, accurate representation, and reflective reasoning. Sessions will focus on reconceptualizing empathy, narrative ethics, bearing witness, and illness narratives. Professionalism, cultural competence, bioethical competence, interpersonal communication skills, self-reflective practice, and ability to work with health care teams can be strengthened by increasing narrative competence.
You may also include this experience on your application to health professional schools.
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