Advising Course Plan - Public Health - for PreMed Track
Requirements may differ from the ones below; depending on the medical program you may be interested, so please make sure to look at various graduate program requirements for different universities.
We highly recommend you begin looking at universities’ requirements during your 1st year as an undergraduate to better prepare you for graduate programs.
As minimal preparation you should complete BIOL 141P and BIOL 142P, CHEM 141P and CHEM 142P, CHEM 201 and CHEM 202 and PHYS 121P or PHYS 141P and PHYS 122P or PHYS 142P. In addition, make sure you satisfy all the public health major requirements listed in the course catalog (the plan below should allow you to do this).
| First Year | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Fall | Units | Spring | Units |
| BIOL 141P+ | 1 | BIOL 142P+ | 1 |
| SOCI 101S or MATH 141Q (or General Education Requirement)** | 1 | PSYC 101S or MATH 141Q (or General Education Requirement)** | 1 |
| FSEM 100 | 1 | General Education Requirement** | 1 |
| PUBH 140V (or Language 201L course)* | 1 | PUBH 140V (or Language 202L course)* | 1 |
| 4 | 4 | ||
| Total Units 8 | |||
MATH 141Q should be taken in Second Year Fall if it was not taken in First Year and if it is required by your school of interest.
| Second Year | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Fall | Units | Spring | Units |
| PUBH 284Q* | 1 | PUBH 301P* | 1 |
| CHEM 141P** | 1 | CHEM 142P** | 1 |
| PUBH Elective* or General Education Requirement | 1 | PUBH Elective* or General Education Requirement | 1 |
| PUBH Elective * or General Education Requirement or General Elective course | 1 | PHIL 316V (or General Education Requirement)* | 1 |
| 4 | 4 | ||
| Total Units 8 | |||
Junior Seminar should be taken during Third Year.
| Third Year | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fall | Units | Spring | Units | Summer | Units |
| PUBH 303 (or Statistics+ (speak with your advisor about selecting Statistics course))* | 1 | PUBH 303 (or Statistics+ (speak with your advisor about selecting Statistics course)) | 1 | Take the MCAT exam in preparation for Medical school applications – by the end of summer before Fourth Year. | |
| PHYS 121P or 141P** | 1 | PHYS 122P or 142P** | 1 | Recommendation: Study for MCAT during Third Year and take it no later than July 31st. | |
| Junior Seminar | 1 | PUBH 498* | 1 | ||
| CHEM 301** | 1 | CHEM 201** | 1 | ||
| 4 | 4 | 0 | |||
| Fourth Year | |||||
| Fall | Units | Spring | Units | ||
| PUBH 499* | 1 | ENSS 499 | 0.5 | ||
| CHEM 204 (if not already taken) or PUBH Elective course*+ | 1 | General Education Requirement or General Elective | 1 | ||
| PUBH Elective* or General Education Requirement or General Elective | 1 | PUBH 397 (or General Education Requirement or General Elective)* | 1 | ||
| General Education Requirement or General Elective | 1 | PHIL 316V (or General Education Requirement or General Elective)* | 1 | ||
| General Elective | 0.5 to 1 | ||||
| 4 | 4-4.5 | ||||
| Total Units 16-16.5 | |||||
Total Units for Plan: 32-32.5
- +
Course counts toward both premed track and major of Public Health.
- *
Course is a major requirement.
- **
Course is a premed requirement.