Office of Health Professions Advising: Prerequisite Courses

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Office of Health Professions Advising: Prerequisite Courses
Office of Health Professions Advising: http://prehealth.duke.edu
Prerequisite Courses
Individual health professions schools set their own admission requirements. A very few schools list no specific
courses for admission; however, they expect their applicants to have mastered the information covered in the
standardized admissions tests, such as the MCAT for medicine and the DAT for dentistry. Many (but not all)
prehealth schools in the United States require the following courses. It is very important to check with individual
schools and programs. Grades of C or higher are required by most, if not all schools, for prerequisite courses.
Course
# Semesters
Duke Equivalent (see below regarding
placement, old numbers are in brackets)
As a minimum, two biology courses with lab.
Please note that some schools require specific
biology courses. For example, some dental
schools want additional coursework in anatomy
2 semesters with and/or microbiology. For MCAT test
Biology
lab
preparation we recommend BIOLOGY
201L[101L] and BIOLOGY 202L[102L] + a
physiology course (BIOLOGY 329L[151L],
BME 244L[144L], EVANTH 330[155], OR
CELLBIO 503[203]).
Varies, may be
no math
MATH 105L[25L]/MATH 106L[26L] or
requirement, one MATH 111L[31L] +/- MATH 112L[32L] or
semester, two
MATH 122L[41L]. If you need to take a
semesters, 1
statistics course, we recommend STA 101[101],
Calculus
calculus* plus 1 102[102], 111[103], BIOLOGY 204[189], or
statistics course. PSY 201[117].(*Prehealth physics courses at
Check
Duke require knowledge of calculus through
individual
Math 111[31L])
school sites.
To fulfill the Chemistry prerequisites, choose
one of the following sequences:1) For
4 semesters with students who have not taken a year of high
lab.
school chemistry, and/or have a Math SAT I
Biochemistry score of 630 or lower, the recommended
will be a tested prehealth chemistry sequence is: CHEM
Chemistry (General subject area on 99D[20D] –> CHEM 101DL[31L] –> CHEM
& Organic) For
the MCAT 2015 201DL[151L] –> CHEM 202L[152L] –>
further placement exam so we
CHEM 210DL[32L]. We strongly recommend
information, see the encourage all
taking BIOCHEM 301[227] as well. 2) For
Chemistry
prehealth
students who have taken at least a year of
Department website students to take high school chemistry, have a Math SAT I
BIOCHEM
score of greater than 630, and who have an
301[227] prior AP Chemistry score of 3 or less, the
to taking the
recommended prehealth chemistry sequence
MCAT 2015.
is: CHEM 101DL[31L] –> CHEM
201DL[151L] –> CHEM 202L[152L] –>
CHEM 210DL[32L]. We strongly recommend
English
Physics
taking BIOCHEM 301[227] as well. 3) For
students with an AP Chem Score = 4:
(CHEM 18 [20] AP Credit) CHEM
110DL[43L] –> CHEM 201DL[151L] –>
CHEM 202L[152L] –> BIOCHEM 301[227];
OR CHEM 101DL[31L] –> CHEM
201L[151L] –> CHEM 202L[152L] –>CHEM
210DL[32L] (NOTE: You will lose your AP
credit.) We strongly recommend taking
BIOCHEM 301[227] especially for MCAT
2015 preparation.4) For students with an AP
Chem Score = 5: (CHEM 19 [21] AP Credit):
CHEM 201DL[151L] –> CHEM 202L[152L] –
> BIOCHEM 301[227]
WRITING 101[20] + one other English or
2 semesters
literature course
PHYSICS 141L[53L]/142L[54L] for life
sciences majors and prehealth students,
2 semesters with
PHYSICS 161L[41L]/162L[42L] for physics
lab
majors, PHYSICS 151L[61L], 152L[62L], +/153L[63L] for engineering students
NOTES: Important, Please Read
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You should check requirements on the websites of specific schools that are of interest to you. You may
want to focus on those public and private schools in your state of residence. Valuable resources include
Medical School Admission Requirements, ADEA Official Guide to Dental Schools, and Veterinary Medical
School Admissions Requirements.
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As noted above, some schools require or strongly recommend courses in biochemistry and statistics. Other
courses that might be required or strongly recommended include those in the humanities, social sciences
and computer science. Students taking the MCAT 2015 are encouraged to take introductory
psychology and sociology courses.
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Most schools require two semesters of biology, but a few, such as the University of Texas system, require
four semesters, 2 with lab. Biochemistry counts as one biology or chemistry course at most UT schools.
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While health professions schools accept students from a wide range of majors, they expect applicants to
have taken science courses that are designed for science majors. They recommend that you do not take
science courses that are intended primarily for non-science majors (such as CHEM 91[83]).
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Students seeking admission to what are considered by some to be the most highly selective health
professions schools should plan to pursue a demanding curriculum. Advanced course work, including
graduate-level courses (at Duke these are courses numbered 500[200] and above), semester overloads, and
scholarship in the form of independent research is expected of successful applicants to these schools.
A note to pre-veterinary students: Many veterinary schools require further specific course work in natural and
animal science such as genetics, microbiology, and one or two courses in animal science and/or nutrition. The latter
two subjects are not offered at Duke. Pre-veterinary students may enroll in animal science and nutrition at North
Carolina State University in Raleigh during the regular fall or spring terms as part of the inter-institutional
agreement (visit: http://trinity.duke.edu/academic-requirements?p=inter-institutional-courses). Alternatively, you
may enroll in an accredited institution in the summer.