Title: PRE-HEALTH FILE WORKSHOP FOR COMMITTEE LETTER APPLICANTS

Description: This mandatory workshop is for those students who need to start a Pre-Health file for the upcoming 2015-2016 Professional schools application cycle. You must have a Pre-Health file by the beginning of the Committee Letter application cycle (January 21st, 2015). The Pre-Health Office will not provide you with a Committee Letter or Letter Packet without a Pre-Health file. NO EXCEPTIONS WILL BE MADE. This Pre-Health File workshop is only open to students planning to apply during the 2015-2016 application cycle to medical, dental, optometry, veterinary and podiatry schools.

Title: 2015-2016 Committee Letter Workshop

Description: Mandatory committee letter workshop for 2015-2016 cycle.

Title: Information Sessions for Prospective Post-Baccalaureate Certificate Students

Description: These information sessions provide details regarding the application process for all interested in applying to the Post-Baccalaureate Certificate Program.

Title: SPURS-Columbia University Medical Center Biomedical Research Summer Program

Description: The SPURS program provides intense research fellowship experiences on the Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons campus to undergraduate students from Universities in the City of Greater New York. The experience is intended to (a) provide meaningful training in biomedical research, and (b) enhance the students’ ability to achieve a career in biomedical research and/or medicine by pursuing an advanced degree (either Ph.D., M.D./ Ph.D. or M.D.). In addition to specific training in the indicated research area, the students receive in-depth training in biomedical research methodology, including: (a) the design and analysis of experiments, (b) a critical reading of the scientific literature, through journal clubs, (c) the presentation of scientific results at laboratory meetings, (d) attendance at convened poster sessions, (e) the preparation of abstracts and manuscripts describing the results of experiments, and (f) career counseling and research ethics.