Health Professions Advisory Program

According to the Association of American Medical Colleges, medical schools recognize that students can develop the essential skills of acquiring, synthesizing, applying and communication information through a variety of academic disciplines.

While there is no official pre-med major at Franklin & Marshall, our Health Professional Advisory Program helps students who come from various academic majors fulfill the requirements necessary for admission into graduate-level programs in medicine, dentistry, veterinary health, and other health related programs.

Recent Franklin & Marshall medical students have included an American Studies major with a minor in Religious Studies; a Special Studies major in Hispanic World Cultures; a Classics major with a minor in Greek; History, English, and Music majors; a Biology major with a minor in Music; and a Chemistry major with a minor in Classical Archeology and Ancient History.

Of course, health professional schools have prerequisites that you will need to fulfill, like biology, General and Organic Chemistry, Physics and Math. Your health professions adviser at Franklin & Marshall can help you navigate the admissions process, as well as assist in you in gaining experience and a realistic idea of what it takes to be a physician by facilitating a number of opportunities in the community.

You can get into those scrubs just a few blocks from campus at Lancaster General Hospital. Or you can tap into the Benjamin Rush Society for Healing Arts Professionals, an organization of alumni, students and faculty with a connection to the health sciences.

In addition, Franklin & Marshall enjoys a strong relationship with surrounding medical schools in Pennsylvania, Maryland, New Jersey and New York, and maintains an early selection program with Penn State College of Medicine and George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences.