Advising Course Plan - Health Sciences Major - Dental School Interest
Those interested in pursuing a career as a Dentist (thus earning a Doctor of Medicine in Dentistry, DMD) should plan on completing a common core of prerequisite course work (*), obtaining patient contact hours or experience in dentistry, and taking the DAT standardized exam (some schools have minimum score requirements, for example a 15 in each section). Some requirements may differ from the ones listed below depending on the DMD program in which you may be interested, so please make sure to look at various graduate program requirements for different universities. You will want to begin looking at universities’ requirements during your 1st year as an undergraduate to better prepare you for graduate programs. Of course, you will need to make sure you satisfy all the Health Sciences (HLSC) major requirements listed in the course catalog (the plan below should allow you to do this).
There is a centralized application process through the American Dental Education Association called the Associated American Dental Schools Application Service (ADEA AADSAS):
http://www.adea.org/dental_education_pathways/aadsas/Applicants/Pages/default.aspx
Generally, at least a 3.0 GPA is commonly expected among dental programs.
| First Year | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fall | Units | Spring | Units | Summer | Units |
| BIOL 141P1,* | 1 | BIOL 142P1,* | 1 | Plan on setting up opportunities for patient contact hours. | |
| HLSC 119V | 1 | PSYC 101S1,* | 1 | ||
| FSEM 1001 | 1 | MATH 141Q1,* | 1 | ||
| Writing or General Education requirement (A, B, H, L course)1 | 1 | General Education requirement (A, B, H, L course)1 | 1 | ||
| 4 | 4 | 0 | |||
| Second Year | |||||
| Fall | Units | Spring | Units | Summer | Units |
| HLSC 2011,* | 1 | HLSC 2021 | 1 | Take the DAT in preparation for DMD program applications - by the end of summer before Fourth Year. | |
| CHEM 141P* | 1 | CHEM 142P* | 1 | ||
| BIOL 3011,* | 1 | BIOL 302 or 3001 | 1 | ||
| General Education requirement (A, B, H, L course) | 1 | General Education requirement (A, B, H, L course)1 | 1 | ||
| 4 | 4 | 0 | |||
| Third Year | |||||
| Fall | Units | Spring | Units | ||
| CHEM 201* | 1 | HLSC 4981 | 1 | ||
| PHYS 121P or 141P* | 1 | PHYS 122P or 142P* | 1 | ||
| Junior Seminar | 1 | CHEM 301* | 1 | ||
| Elective | 1 | MATH 125Q | 1 | ||
| 4 | 4 | ||||
| Fourth Year | |||||
| Fall | Units | Spring | Units | ||
| HLSC 4991 | 1 | HLSC elective (HLSC 200W recommended)1 | 1 | ||
| HLSC 4111 | 1 | Additional 200+ level CHEM course to satisfy Chemistry minor requirement | 1 | ||
| CHEM 204* | 1 | General Education requirement (A, B, H, L course) or Elective | 1 | ||
| PHIL 316V | 1 | General Education requirement (A, B, H, L course) or Elective | 1 | ||
| 4 | 4 | ||||
| Total Units 32 | |||||
- 1
Required for HLSC major.
- *
Common core of prerequisite course work.