Pre-Health Group Advising Sessions

Attend our upcoming group advising sessions. A full list of group advising sessions can be found here.

Click here to join the Prehealth Group Advising Canvas Course 

Direct links to live session can be found on our website. 

Coming up:

Health Professions Portfolio Overview - November 9, 2021 @ 6PM EST

PA Applicant Personal Statement Review--

Deadline Extended to Nov. 22, 2021

Pre-PA students planning to submit their Personal Statement for review can begin submitting them during the first week of November. We will review them as they come in and will attempt to get feedback returned to all students by December 1.

PA Personal Statement Module sign up:

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

Free Half-Length Proctored Mock MCAT

Friday, Nov. 12 from 5:30-9:30PM, Thomas 101 (University Park), Hosted by AED and Prehealth Advising

Reserve your spot now

**Alumni and Students at other campuses may participate remotely**

If you wish to participate remotely, please complete the form below and email prehealthadvising@psu.edu to let us know so that we can share the Zoom information with you. 

For in-person exams:

Please read the information below and  RSVP using the link in this email to confirm your attendance. Altius will need this information to set up your account for the exam that evening. If you want to confirm that Altius has your registration, please email prehealthadvising@psu.edu.

Join Altius Test Prep an exciting look at the real MCAT experience. Learn from TOP scoring Pre-Med Peers. Take a free half-length proctored exam! Gain a baseline score to see where you are in your personal MCAT preparation. 

• Normally $40 - but yours for Free
• Six months free access to testing and score improvement tools
• Training and instruction on accurate MCAT materials and methods
• Everyone who attends receives a $500 MCAT Prep Voucher. 
• Drawing for one HALF-TUITION SCHOLARSHIP ($1249 value)

Vaccine Dissent & the Post-COVID Landscape

Hosted by SciComm Speaker Series

Nov. 11 at 3:30 p.m, zoom link below

LECTURE FEATURING
Bernice Hausman, Chair of the Department of Humanities at Penn State College of Medicine
SciComm-BerniceHausman-Fall2021-V167 (003).pdf 
Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, public conversation about vaccine dissent focused largely on childhood vaccines and parental resistance. The reviled image of the anti-vaxxer was a mother, usually white and educated, who resisted routine childhood vaccinations through scientific misunderstanding, gullibility to internet charlatans, or misplaced beliefs in natural approaches to health and wellness. COVID-19 changed all that. As the pandemic wore on and new rationales for vaccine dissent emerged, they were increasingly understood through the politics of race. First Black and brown communities were a focus of the new understanding, as these communities experience significant distrust of medicine due to histories of exploitation and discrimination.
Then rural white and politically conservative communities became foci of interest, especially as Republicans have resisted calls for vaccine mandates to stem the tide of the Delta variant.

What is going on in our understanding of vaccine dissent and the politics of vaccine refusal? In tracing arguments about who dissents and why they do so, Dr. Hausman will explore how COVID has upended received ideas about what causes and sustains vaccine skepticism.

Click Here to join the virtual lecture via zoom

Penn State College of Medicine State College Campus

Click here to register and view details

Did you know that in addition to the Penn State College of Medicine Hershey Campus, PSCOM also has a 4 year curriculum campus in State College, PA? We’d love to share more with you about the University Park Curriculum Track, and we’d like to invite you to a series of ZOOM talks that we are hosting – each one focusing on a different aspect of the UP track. I’ve attached a highlight sheet for some additional information.

Sessions available are below. All sessions will be held 6 to 7 p.m.

• Nov. 10: University Park Curriculum Track welcome and Year 1
• Nov. 17: Program Overview, Years 2-4
• Dec. 1: Mock IQ group
• Dec. 15: Life in State College
• Jan. 12: Current student meet and greet

• Feb. 9: University Park Curriculum Track welcome and Year 1
• Feb. 16: Program Overview, Years 2-4
• March 2: Mock IQ group
• March 16: Life in State College
• April 6: Current student meet and greet

Eliminating Racism in Health Professions Education

Nov. 16, 8-9:30am (ET)

“I Didn’t Know What to Say” - Responding to Racism, Discrimination, and Microaggressions With the OWTFD Approach

Sylk Sotto, Vice-Chair for Faculty Affairs, Development, and Diversity in the Department of Medicine at Indiana University School of Medicine

REGISTER  AT https://survey.alchemer.com/s3/6587735/IHPE-DEI-Workshop-Sessions

Viral Imaginations, Ekphrastic Expressions Workshop

Nov. 17 at 7:30 p.m

Creatively Reflect on Pandemic Art

Prehealth Drop-in Hours

Prehealth Advising will be holding virtual drop-in advising sessions twice a week on Thursdays and Fridays throughout the semester.

You may check-in to our virtual kiosk and the next available adviser will send you their zoom info. 

Thursdays: 1:30-3:30P

Fridays 10:00A-12:00P

News from the Office of Science Engagement

NEW OPPORTUNITIES POSTED WEEKLY!!

The Office of Science Engagement has many resources and ways for you to get involved with internships and jobs!

Explore the Opportunities! 

Articles to Consider 

Articles to consider during this difficult time in our nation.

Read some now!

Virtual Fairs & Open Houses

-MANY NEW EVENTS!-

Feel like you are missing out by staying at home? Want to learn more about osteopathic medicine, medical school in the Caribbean, or postbacc opportunities? Visit and connect with these and other programs virtually at these live events!

 Check it out today!

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