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

April 18, 2024

WATCH: Taj Singh ’19 Appears on WFMZ’s “Talk With Your Doctor”

Singh, a third-year medical student at Temple University’s Lewis Katz School of Medicine at St. Luke’s, was on a panel discussing a student-led care center targeting those with limited or no health care access.
March 26, 2024

Abrar Shamim ’20 to Join Harvard Medical School/Massachusetts General Hospital M.D.-Integrated Program

Shamim, who earned a D.D.S. from the Columbia University College of Dental Medicine, will obtain an M.D. from Harvard and serve as a general and oral and maxillofacial surgery resident at the Massachusetts General Hospital.
February 14, 2024

Muhlenberg Offers Innovative Mock Application Process for Prehealth Students

The process, which now stretches over an entire academic year, challenges each student to create the strongest application they can and produces powerful results.
December 19, 2023

2400 Chew Podcast: Dr. Leonard Zon '79

On this episode of 2400 Chew, Muhlenberg Magazine Editor-in-Chief Meghan Kita speaks with Dr. Leonard Zon '79, the Grousbeck Professor of Pediatric Medicine at Harvard Medical School, an investigator with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and director of the Stem Cell Program at Boston Children's Hospital.