Health Professions

Attention Students: If you consider yourself a Prehealth student at Muhlenberg, and would like to be included on our mailing list please take a moment to complete our Advising Interest Form.

The Office of Health Professions Advising works with faculty advisors to build customized academic plans that address the specific goals of students pursuing a career in health and medicine. We work to advance the quality of the undergraduate preprofessional student’s lifelong learning process.

Through self-assessment workshops, research opportunities, experiential learning, competency development and extensive preparation for the professional school application process, prehealth students are challenged to discover and define their individual career goals.

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More than 2300 Muhlenberg alumni work in medical and health professions, and many serve current students as mentors.

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Over the past five years, 92 percent of all graduates who applied to medical and dental school were admitted.

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Students are designated as members of the College's prehealth track.

Prehealth

Explore the many options available to Muhlenberg students interested in medical and health careers.

Research & Clinical Experience

Research Opportunities and Clinical Experiences On and Off Campus.

Shankweiler Scholars

Muhlenberg's newest honors program is designed for highly motivated undergraduates who are preparing to pursue a medical degree after graduation.

Advising & Resources

Muhlenberg's Approach Builds on Decades of Pre-Medical Success.

Outcomes & Success Stories

Muhlenberg Graduates are Positioned for Medical School Placement and Career Success.

Academic Partnerships

Pathways From Muhlenberg to Top Medical & Dental Schools.

NEWS AT MUHLENBERG

May 9, 2023

Kevan Shah ’22 Named Knight-Hennessy Scholar at Stanford University

The largest fully endowed scholars program in the world, Knight-Hennessy’s goal is to tackle society’s most intractable problems with a multidisciplinary, multicultural community of future leaders.
May 5, 2023

This Is the Liberal Arts

At Muhlenberg, each student is exposed to a variety of ideas, ways of thinking and academic disciplines, regardless of what they end up declaring as a major. These stories demonstrate the power and potential of such an education.
April 12, 2023

Muhlenberg Announces New Academic Partnership with Villanova Nursing

Students wishing to pursue a nursing degree now have a clear pathway, thanks to an affiliation agreement with the Villanova University M. Louise Fitzpatrick College of Nursing.
March 28, 2023

Q&A: Arianna Mesrobian ’20, a Third-Year Medical Student at the Temple/St. Luke’s School of Medicine in Bethlehem

The New Jersey native, who completed the St. Luke’s Premed Observer Program as a junior, appreciates the tight-knit quality of the Lehigh Valley community.