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Master’s Degree Prerequisites
All applicants are required to have all of the following requirements
completed upon entering the PA Program.
- A Bachelor's degree from a four-year regionally accredited
college or university. No specific major is required. If you have
not obtained a Bachelor's degree, we recommend majoring in the
fields of Biology or Chemistry.
- Satisfactory completion of the following medical
core prerequisite courses:
Please Note: All science,
math, and psychology courses must be taken at a four-year regionally
accredited college or university, or at a community college
through a college transfer program within the United States.
To benefit the applicant upon
matriculation and to make an application more competitive, it
is strongly recommended all prerequisite coursework be taken
at a four-year institution.
If coursework is completed at the community college level, although
strongly discouraged, it must be taken at the highest course
number of the class offered to count for the prerequisite requirement
(i.e. BIO 165 Anatomy and Physiology I will count to fulfill
the requirement rather than BIO 163 Basic Anatomy and Physiology).
Coursework does not have to be complete at the time you
apply to the program. However, applicants must have a plan in
place to successfully complete all coursework before the start
date in mid-August. Grades below C for any course will not be
accepted.
Applicants may not substitute
other classes for any of the required medical core prerequisites.
All course work listed must be completed. No exceptions will
be made.
There are no time limitations on the following Medical Core
Prerequisites.
Biology
- 16 semester hours to include:
- Anatomy & Physiology w/ lab 4 s.h
- Microbiology w/ lab 4 s.h.
- 8 additional semester hours of other human and/or animal
life sciences. No botany, ecology, nutrition or physical education
courses accepted (see below for Recommended Additional Courses
under Biology)
Chemistry -
19 semester hours to include:
- General Chemistry I w/ lab 4 s.h.
- General Chemistry II w/ lab 4 s.h.
- Organic Chemistry I w/ lab 4 s.h.
- Organic Chemistry II w/ lab 4 s.h.
- Biochemistry 3 s.h.
NOTE: Courses entitled “Intro to…” “Survey
of …” or “…for non-science majors,”
as well as courses that combine Organic and Biochemistry into
one, are not acceptable.
Math -
6 semester hours to include:
- College Algebra or higher
- Applied Statistics
NOTE: Both courses must have a math or statistics prefix.
Psychology
- 6 semester hours (see below for Recommended Additional
Courses under Psychology)
Medical Terminology
- Medical Terminology will be required as part of the Medical
Core prerequisites.
- Completion of the Graduate Record Exam (GRE).
Official scores must be provided to the program to be considered
for an interview (recommended GRE Verbal and Quantitative combination
is 1050). If GRE scores are beyond 6 years old, new scores must
be submitted.
- A minimum of 500 hours clinical experience with direct
patient contact. Applicants selected must complete all required
hours by July 15th, 2009.
- A recommended GPA of 3.0 or better on all college level work
attempted.
- A recommended GPA of 3.2 on the medical core prerequisites.
- No history of drug abuse or conviction of a felony.
- No history of dismissal from another PA, medical, or nursing
school for academic or disciplinary reasons.
- No Advanced Placement.
- The PA Program does not accept transfer credit from a student
previously enrolled in another PA program, nor does it accept
experiential credit. All students accepted in the PA program must
satisfy all requirements of the didactic and clinical years of
study.
- All non US citizens or students who have English as a second
language must submit their college transcripts to the Word Education
Services for translation and have completion of the TOEFL (Test
of English as a Foreign Language www.toefl.org).
Recommended Additional Courses
The following classes under Biology and Psychology are recommended
to fulfill the Medical Core Prerequisites if applicable. These courses
are also recommended to further educate and prepare applicants for
entrance into the program. Anything taken above and beyond what
is required is always beneficial.
Biology
- Medical Microbiology
- Developmental Biology
- Genetics
- Cell Biology
Psychology
- Physiological Psychology
- Abnormal Psychology
- Developmental Psychology
Additional Helpful Courses
- General Physics
- Medical Terminology
- Public Speaking
- Creative Writing
- Religion in an Age of Science
Methodist University Course Descriptions
Please use the following course descriptions from the 2008-2009
Methodist University Academic Catalogue as a guide in determining
course equivalency.
BHC 230 Medical Terminology
Introduces prefixes, suffixes, and word roots used in the language
of medicine. Topics include medical vocabulary and the terms that
relate to anatomy, physiology, pathological conditions, and treatment
of the conditions that can affect the eleven systems of the human
body. Upon completion, students should be able to pronounce, spell,
define, understand, and interpret over 11,000 medical terms as related
to the body’s systems and their pathological disorders. The course
is offered every fall and spring semester.
BIO 306 Human Anatomy and Physiology
I
Part one of a two-course sequence. Topics include an introduction
to histology, the skin and its deviations, the skeleton, muscles,
the nervous, sensory, and endocrine systems. Although this course
is taught with an organ system emphasis, mechanisms on the cellular
and molecular level are also covered. Prerequisite: BIO 153 with
a grade of C of higher. This course is offered every fall semester.
This course is also offered in the summer semester contingent upon
availability of faculty.
BIO 307 Microbiology
Immunology, virology, morphology, and physiology of bacteria, etiology,
and applied microbiology. Three hours of lecture and three hours
of laboratory each week. Prerequisites: BIO 153 with a grade of
a C or higher and CHE 151 or permission of the instructor. This
course is offered every fall and spring semester. Designated writing
enrichment course.
CHE 151 General Chemistry I
The elements, their compounds, and their reactions and the theories
involved in foundation of modern chemistry. Three hours of lecture
and three hours of laboratory each week. Prerequisites: MAT 105,
113, or 231. This course is offered every fall semester.
CHE 152 General Chemistry II
A more detailed study of topics introduced in CHE 151. Three hours
of lecture and three hours of laboratory each week. Prerequisite:
CHE 151. This course is offered every spring semester.
CHE 321, 322 Organic Chemistry I and
II
The compounds of carbon and their reactions with emphasis on theories
and mechanisms of reactions. Three hours of lecture and three hours
of laboratory each week. A designated writing-enrichment course.
Prerequisites: CHE 151 and 152. 321 is offered every fall semester;
322 is offered every spring semester. CHE 321 is a prerequisite
of CHE 322.
CHE 450 Biochemistry
The chemical nature and interactions of biological molecules, acid
base chemistry, buffers, carbohydrates, lipids, proteins, nucleic
acids, enzymes, coenzymes, the interrelationships of compounds in
major metabolic cycles, and the utilization and synthesis of high
energy compounds as "energy currency." Three hours of
lecture and three hours of laboratory each week. Prerequisites:
CHE 321 and 322. This course is offered every spring semester.
MAT 220 Applied Statistics
An introductory course in Statistics with emphasis in Statistical
inference to include elementary probability theory, elementary set
theory, summation notation and continuing to "decision theory"
through topics of sampling distributions, point estimation, confidence
intervals for mean; variance; difference of population means, correlation,
linear regression, tests of independence, homogeneity, goodness
to fit and analysis of variance. Prerequisite: MAT 105 or permission
of instructor. This course is offered during the fall and spring
semesters
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