We have a new format for the 2018-19 school year! All annoucements will be posted as blog posts on our website. We will still link to the current items in this weekly newsletter, but on the blog website, you will be able to sort posts by category and by health professions tags. This will also allow us to reduce the Newsletter to one email each week.

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Our department is changing from “Walk-In Advising” during registration (March 11 through April 19) to “Express Advising.” 

Express Advising is for scheduling questions only and will be held each weekday, Monday through Friday from 11:00am to 1:00pm. This advising is open to the following:

1. Students pursuing a B.S. in Science or Premedicine who would like help planning their schedule for Summer and/or Fall 2019
2. Pre-health professional students in any major at Penn State who would like help planning their schedule for Summer and/or Fall 2019

For more detailed questions and more serious matters, please plan to schedule a 30-minute appointment with a PreHealth or Eberly College of Science adviser during that time.

Throughout the fall and spring semesters, Penn State PreHealth Advising offer a series of group advising sessions.
NEW for the 2018-19 school year: Students considering medical, dental, podiatry, and physician assistant professions must attend a Med Prep or PA Prep group advising session prior to meeting one-on-one with PreHealth Advising.

Group Advising sessions occuring in the next two weeks:

• Medical Appilcants: Wednesday, March 20, 6:00-7:15pm in 201 Thomas
• PA Prep: Monday, March 25, 6:00-7:00pm in 260 Willard
• Post-bacc 101: Wednesday, April 3, 6:00-7:00pm in 104 Thomas

Desciptions of sessions and the full Spring 2019 schedule can be found here: http://sites.psu.edu/sciadvising/2018/12/06/spring-2019-health-professions-group-advising/

Committee Letter Information: 

http://sites.psu.edu/sciadvising/committeeletter/

Personal Statement Help - DUE DATE IS FRIDAY, MARCH 22 FOR REVIEW FROM OUR OFFICE: 

http://sites.psu.edu/sciadvising/prehealth-advising/personalstatement/

Recent AAMC Announcements:

https://sites.psu.edu/sciadvising/category/announcements-and-press-releases/

Post-MCAT Survey Results from the AAMC:

http://sites.psu.edu/sciadvising/2019/03/06/2018-post-mcat-questionaire/

• March 31 Deadline - Summer NSO Assistant Application for the Eberly College of Science
• *NEW* May/June Start Date - Full-time Research Assistant at Hershey Orthopedics Department
• Mount Nittany Internships
• Gap Year Medical Assistant/Scribe Opening in Livingston, NJ
• Biomedical Summer Internship on Lung Cancer and Respiratory Diseases at Mount Sinai
• NARAP Research Associate Applications Open (gap year or spring semester)
• Interviews Beginning in January - Summer Positions with Science-U (POSITIONS STILL AVAILABLE!)
• Geisinger Surgery Institute Summer Intern (Research)
• Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp - Health Staff Openings
• Full-time Senior Clinical Research Coordinator at the Fetal Medicine Institute
• Full-Time positions with Integrated DNA Technologies
• Part-Time Tutoring Position – Chemistry Resource Room
• Part-Time Guided Study Group Leader Positions - Penn State Learning

• March 29 Deadline - Stand For State Peer Educator Application
• Conemaugh Health System SupremEd Volunteer Program Applications Open
• Applications Open for National Health Corps (AmeriCorps) 1 year service
• Volunteers Needed - James E. Van Zandt VA Hospital in Altoona, PA
• Volunteers Needed - Out of the Cold: Centre County

• (No deadline listed) - Human Osteology Research/Field Work in Tanzania
• (No deadline listed) - Summer 2019 Health Promotion and Wellness Intern at Penn State
• *NEW* (No deadline listed) - Charleston Pharmacy Boot Camp
• March 29 Deadline - Illinois Optometry Exploration
• March 31 Deadline - Summer NSO Assistant Application for the Eberly College of Science
• April 1 Deadline - Summer Pharmacy Institute at University of Illinois
• *NEW* April 15 Deadline - Eye on Success (Southern College of Optometry)
• April 15 Deadline - Rush Summer Research Scholars Program
• April 15 Deadline - PURDIP (U. of Pittsburgh)
• April 15 Deadline - Summer SUNY Optometry programs (CSTEP)
• *NEW* May 3 Deadline - I-DOC Program Application at OSU College of Optometry
• May 17 Deadline - Opto-Camp at UC Berkeley
• June 1 Deadline - UB Pharmacy Summer Institute
• The Prehealth Advising Office has compiled a list of summer volunteer/research/shadowing opportunities. Go here to view.

• April 1 Deadline - Zucker Pipeline Program (Hofstra Medical)
• April 19 Deadline - Med/Dental/Optom Early Admission Opportunities for Penn State Students

• March 21 & Other Dates - Spring 2019 Undergraduate Research Workshops
• March 21 - Study Smarter, Not Harder Workshop
• *NEW* March 26 - Perreault Fellows Program STEM Majors Information Session
• *NEW* April 1-5 - Penn State Startup Week and Entrepreneurship Seminars
• Spring 2019 - EPPIC Workshops for International Students and Second-Language Learners

• HESE Program Applications Open
• *NEW* SU19 - Penn State Language Institute STARTALK Program and Intensive Language Program Scholarships
• Summer Session 2019 Discounts and Scholarships
• Summer EMT Course through Centre Lifelink
• FA19 Course - SC 402: Science-Related Employment (1 cr.)
• FA19 Course - BIOL 497-006: Evolution of Infectious Diseases

• March 20 & 23- Information Session on Georgetown's Master's in Systems Medicine
• April 3- University of the Sciences Health Professions Fair
• April 4 - Philadelphia/Main Line Health Professions School Expo
• *NEW* April 6 - UMD Dental Open House
• April 6- CCNY Medical and Dental School Fair
• April 6 - LUCOM Open House
• April 6 - Rowan SOM Open House
• April 8 Registration Deadline- AAMC Pathways Premed Student Workshop/Recruitment Fair (April 13, Kentucky)
• April 9- Physician Assistant Virtual Fair
• *NEW* April 11 - Choose DO Medical School Expo in Washington DC
• *NEW* April 12 Registration Deadline - UNE Health Professions Degree Expo
• *NEW* April 13 and June 22 - Case Western Post-Bacc Open House
• April 16 & April 18 - Hopkins and UMD Health Professions Fair
• Spring Open House Dates for NYIT COM

• *NEW* March 26 - The Importance of Shadowing Webinar
• Exam Krackers - Free MCAT Prep Webinars
• Kaplan - Free MCAT/DAT/OAT/PCAT/GRE Prep Webinars

• *NEW* March 24 Deadline - The Undergraduate Exhibition Application
• NARAP Research Associate Applications Open (gap year or spring semester)
• Pitch Exploration Lab at Penn State - Undergraduate Research Opportunity
• Crowley Lab in Biobehavioral Health – Volunteer and For-Credit Research Positions

• *NEW* April 1 Deadline - SHPEP Alumni Scholarship
• April 3 Deadline - ORISE STEM Scholarships

• *NEW* April 2 - Pennsylvania Public & Community Health Annual Conference
• April 13 - NHMA Conference: travel grants available
• *NEW* April 29 - Penn State's CCSA Substance Abuse Conference

• March 18-April 1 - Health Promotion and Wellness Focus Groups
• Key Dates for New AAMC Official Prep Hub  (Information important for OLD AND NEW users)
• Kaplan weekly prizes and free MCAT guide
• *NEW* Altius March discounts

• March 21 - Study Smarter, Not Harder Workshop
• Test Prep Book Exchange

Opportunities available year-round can be found on this page:
http://sites.psu.edu/sciadvising/blogroll/opportunities-available-year-round/

Such opportunities include:

• Offical Calendars from Health Professional Organizations (AAMC, ADEA, etc.)
• Information regarding Health Professions Group Advising Sessions
• Information regarding the Committee Letter process
• Donations for test prep books (MCAT, DAT, PCAT)
• Medical Scribing positions
• Other continuous job postings

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