Careers in Healthcare
Careers in Healthcare provides comprehensive support to College students and alumni pursuing clinical career pathways such as allopathic (MD) and osteopathic (DO) medicine, public health (MPH), dental (DDS and DMD), podiatric (DPM) practice, nursing (BA to MSN), veterinary medicine (DVM), pharmacy (Pharm.D), and health services research (PhD). Our application cycle program, open to current students and alumni, features a series of detailed informational seminars, an individualized personal statement consultation, school selection planning, and an interview designed to understand your goals and motivations toward health and medicine. Learn more about the application timeline and application components using the links on the left-hand side of this page.
If you are interested in working in the healthcare industry, but not as a clinical healthcare provider (for example: consulting, entrepreneurship, research, policy, etc.) you will need to build the skill-set appropriate for that role. Please visit the “Careers In…” program page that best matches your role interest.
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First Years: Getting Started with Pre-Health
Careers in Healthcare offers a series of programs in Autumn Quarter to introduce first-year students to health careers and the medical school application process. Review this flyer to learn more about these opportunities!
Second through Fourth Year Students and Alumni: Advising and Scheduling an Appointment
Careers in Healthcare students and alumni can draw on the program advisers’ wealth of experience for career exploration, pre-medicine curriculum planning, and medical school applications. Careers in Healthcare advisers are available year-round for half-hour, one-on-one advising appointments. To schedule an appointment with your adviser, click here to set up an account.
Students are also encouraged to take advantage of individual advising appointments as well as Careers in Healthcare Zoom-in hours. Zoom-in hours are 10 minute sessions held via Zoom each Tuesday and Wednesday during the academic year, from 2:30-4:30 CST. Zoom-in scheduling opens 24 hours in advance.
Support our Program
Careers in Healthcare could not succeed without the support of alumni and experienced professionals. If you are an employer or practitioner in any health-related field, consider getting involved in the program. Please contact Melissa Smith at smithmr@uchicago.edu.