HEALTH PROFESSIONS
AND CORNELL COLLEGE
The hardest conviction to get into
the mind of a beginner is that the education upon which he is engaged is not a
college course, not a medical course, but a life course, for which the work of
a few years under teachers is but a preparation. Whether you will falter and
fail in the race or whether you will be faithful to the end depends on the
training before the start, and on your staying powers, points upon which there
is no need to enlarge.
Sir William Osler (1849-1919), from:
The Student of Medicine
Preface
This guide has been designed to help you in pursuit of a career in the health sciences. The guide covers those health-related careers most commonly sought by Cornell students including an M.D. (allopathic medicine), an O.D (osteopathic medicine), an M.D./Ph.D. (medical scientist), D.M.D/D.D.S. (dentistry), D.V.M. (veterinary medicine), P.A (physician’s assistants), Clinical Laboratory Scientist/ Medical Technologist, and Physical Therapist.
Cornell is dedicated to providing students with a thorough grounding in the liberal arts. There is no pre-professional, or pre-med, major at Cornell. There is no inflexible schedule of courses that you must take in order to apply to any health-related professional program. However, there are requisite courses for each program, courses that will help you do better on entrance examinations, and courses that will prepare for your career. Using this guide, your primary faculty advisor can assist you in planning your career.
Dentistry:
D.M.D./ D.D.S
Clinical Laboratory Scientist/ Medical Technologist
Physical
Therapy
Veterinary
Medicine