Pre-health professions advisement program designed to help you make the best decision you can about your future in healthcare.Â
These are exciting and challenging times for you to become a healthcare professional.Â
While some students begin college knowing what health profession they will pursue, some students change their mind several times. For still others the idea of choosing a profession seems far off. The Pre Health Advisement program at Niagara University offers you a structured program designed to help you think systematically about your options.
As you progress through the program, you will gain the tools to make an informed decision, based on guided self-reflection and the information you will gather about the many career options available to you.
You will explore the variety of health care specialties as well as the other career options available to you in the health professions. As you meet and talk with health care professionals in various specialties, you will begin to learn about what professionals do in these areas, gaining a real-world perspective on their specialties.
Pre-health advisor can guide you through applying for and being accepted into a professional school. You will find valuable information and tips about the application process, interviewing, and what makes a competitive applicant, along with things to consider in completing your undergraduate program and beginning professional school.
There are a number of volunteer/intern/shadowing experiences available to NU pre-health students locally. Past opportunities include Community Medical Pharmacy, Osteopathic Training Program at Sisters Hospital, Summit Pediatrics, Dental Care Associates, and Gerber Small Animal Hospital.
Program is designed to help you think systematically about your options. s you progress through the program, you will gain the tools to make an informed decision, based on guided self-reflection and the information you will gather about the many career options available to you.
Located in the B. Thomas Golisano Center for Integrated Sciences, named after Dr. Melvin S. Dyster, M.D., the center contains a resource library, computer, smart board and seminar space.
Niagara University has affiliations and combined degree programs with the following institutions.
Niagara University is a partner school with Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences in a pre-admission program for qualified students from underrepresented backgrounds that will lead to entry in the JSMBS MD program. Students continue undergraduate studies at Niagara University for the duration of their current academic program, and are required to complete any medical school coursework prerequisites before graduation and maintain a GPS of 3.5 or better.  Students will be invited to participate in one summer research experience at UB’s CLIMB UP program before graduation. Students formally apply for admission to medical school via the traditional channels during their senior year.
Niagara University and the State University of New York at Buffalo School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences have agreed to cooperate in providing an accelerated 3 plus 4 undergraduate/ professional school education leading to the baccalaureate degree in biology or chemistry from Niagara University and the Doctor of Pharmacy (Pharm.D.) degree from the University at Buffalo.
Niagara University students who qualify may receive a conditional acceptance into this program based upon the completion of the pre-pharmacy requirements before June 30 of the admission year. The University at Buffalo may also require a formal interview with a designated interviewer as part of the Pharm.D. admission processes.
Interested students who have fulfilled the prerequisites set by the School of Pharmacy must submit an application through the Pharmacy College Application Service (Pharm CAS) during the fall of their junior year at Niagara University, no later than Dec. 1 (or a mutually agreed upon date).
The Early Acceptance Program is designed to facilitate the admission of Niagara University students into LECOM’s Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine program. LECOM will interview the student prior to their enrollment at Niagara University or within the first two years of being properly enrolled in the program. Students interviewing successfully will be offered a provisional acceptance to LECOM’s Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine program. Upon meeting the criteria for final acceptance, they will matriculate at the LECOM campus of their choice. Because this is a demanding professional program, requirements for acceptance have been established to demonstrate that the student is capable of handling the rigorous course load.
For admission to the 3 + 4 LECOM College of Osteopathic Medicine program, Niagara University students must complete the first three-year phase (phase I) at Niagara University in either the B.S. in biology or the B.A. in chemistry. Following the successful completion of the ascribed undergraduate phase of training, phase one, Niagara University students will continue with the second phase (phase II), under the auspices of LECOM and at associated clinical training sites.
The first year of phase II will constitute the fourth year of the Niagara University B.S. degree in biology or the B.A. in chemistry. Upon successful completion of this year, Niagara University will award the student a B.S. in biology or a B.A. in chemistry.
The Early Acceptance Program is designed to facilitate the admission of Niagara University students into LECOM’s Doctor of Dental Medicine program. LECOM will interview the student prior to their enrollment at Niagara University or within the first two years of being properly enrolled in the program. Students interviewing successfully will be offered a provisional acceptance to LECOM’s Doctor of Dental Medicine program. Upon meeting the criteria for final acceptance, they will matriculate at the LECOM Bradenton, FL campus. Because this is a demanding professional program, requirements for acceptance have been established to demonstrate that the student is capable of handling the rigorous course load.
For admission to the LECOM School of Dental Medicine program, Niagara University students must complete the first four-year phase (phase 1) at Niagara University in either the B.S. or B.A. in biology or the B.A. in chemistry. Following the successful completion of phase 1, Niagara University students will continue with the second phase (phase 2), under the auspices of LECOM and at associated clinical training sites.
Niagara University and Lake Erie College of Pharmacy have formed a partnership offering Niagara University students in biology or chemistry the opportunity to enroll in its 2 3 five-year pre-pharmacy degree program (Pharm.D.). Traditionally, it takes LECOM students nine or more years to obtain a doctorate degree in pharmacy.
The 2 plus 3 pre-pharmacy program between NU and LECOM involves two phases. During phase I, select students who are in the top 25 percent of their graduating high school class will complete their first two years at Niagara University, taking a specified curriculum in biology or chemistry. During phase II of the pre-pharmacy program, students complete three years at LECOM School of Pharmacy where classes run 12 months of the year. Students will graduate with a Doctor of Pharmacy degree (Pharm.D.) which has become the preferred educational level for pharmacists.
LECOM School of Pharmacy will not accept transfer students into phase I of the program, nor will it accept advanced placement credit of science or mathematics courses into phase I of the program. Applications from U.S. citizens and permanent residents only will be accepted by LECOM School of Pharmacy.
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