Pre-Health Programs

Good evening, everybody good evening. Everybody this is Loyola and my your Gardner and Lydia our student. Welcome to our pre health programs webinar. We're very pleased to have you here today with us and May. I hope to make this presentation helpful for you as you're making decisions and we're excited that you are considering Loyola and we have a lot of good news to share review about Loyola's pre health programs.

And I in a way of moving right along welcome everybody to Loyola spree health programs weapon.

I am my own corner. I have a very long last name. You do not need to worry about the entire last name. It's I'm from Finland. Originally, I've been in Baltimore for 24 years. Love this city love. Loyola I've been at Loyola for 20 years and in my current role into my 6 year and and for students. I'm just at the corner and that's for you as well. You can see also that I have a long setup.

Uh.

Names after my name so my I. I my teaching area is church. Historian historian, but I am also registered nurse and that's how you will now get to know me through the health health fields. I a direct Loyola is pretty health programs. And we have a great team working here with students on providing excellent health health programming for your students and for the entire community. I also direct national fellowships, which has special fellowships opportunities that will report.

Never students to make sure they become a competitive and and have those opportunities for international scholarships as well as national scholarships. And so our office is always busy working with pre health and fellowship students. I am also a mother of a Loyola student to Niarhos lab loved it here who's had a great experience. So I know what you are going through now less you're making your decisions and thinking of your next steps.

And then I have a younger son, who's a sophomore, and he said. Villanova so to create create colleges to great places love in both and and I'm very happy to have my son here with me every now and then he pops in my office, so welcome on my behalf. And when I have here with me. Lydia and and go ahead. Lady and everyone. Thank you again for coming tonight. I'm Lydia Cap Ocado. I'm a senior who's going to be graduating in May, so it's very exciting, but

also kind of nerve wracking from upstate New York. I'm a biochemistry major and a sociology minor in my track is to go into medical school so I will be taking a gap year and then applying this summer and with that. I'm also the president of the Pre Health Society, which is a society here at Loyola that speaks about different pre health opportunities and.

Different schools, you can go to and enter to as a pre health.

Position and an lady are you have you will be doing research. It looks like for next year. So create opportunities for cap here as well. Just received a job opportunity to work over at Johns Hopkins as a research program assistant, which I'm which is odd so excited about which is really great, so thank you. Lydia Lydia will be offering some of the slides and giving her perspective and sharing their view, and I will I will provide information for some of them so let's go right ahead.

As you are thinking of your next steps one of the important decisions is of course, your your your study is over. But then the pre health programming and services that you are looking into and that's why you have joined us today. We we, we really take pride in providing evidence based advising direct programming as well as strong connections for students in multiple ways, so let me explain a little bit.

I think when you look into college and to the quality of the program. It's important that you get evidence in the data as to outcomes for your student and.

Are you being a student listener and an understand also that the advising is based on most? Most current knowledge and information about our different ways of providing the best service for our students and for our pre health community. It's also important to look for aspects of direct programming that occur in the College in in pre health areas. Which of course of course work? Which is super important but it's also opportunities such as clubs?

I will share about that, but also programs. We have a large program. For instance, is Merce at Mercy Medical Center and projects justice such as blood drive you see some of the pictures of our students engaged in those activities also presenting their research. We just have the we have an upcoming undergraduate research kolloquium in April annually. And so look for that direct programming. That's being offered at the college and then also go strong connections that really helped to build.

A balanced outlook on the studies its profit connections with professor professors connections with other students and men connections to the community in terms of strong ties to the local community. But even to the national community and even international opportunities so in that fashion. We really aim to provide a continuity that starts right at the freshman year so that as a first year student. The students get really immediately connected with the faculty if oppurtunity's.

And progressively then travel through the four years pre health. Advising is immediately available for all students are by signing you do not need to qualify for pre health programs and.

They uh it's a service that we offer in in connection with Department will you know course work and Department will work with the students so pre health programming is an umbrella program that helps you to succeed with your career planning in health professions. So these pictures. Here are meant to illustrate that perspective for for continuity that also takes the students beyond Loyola so all these students here. We have a student who is now in Georgetown student who is in Taft's and then we had two visiting students in the.

Middle of continued to stay in touch with us create that continuity. There was there were students serve one another as they then built the network in as you travel professionally interview at that particular school so we always connect to student.

Our alarms at the particular schools very might be interviewing in terms of medical medical schools dental schools or any health professional scores.

So it's a great program of young grade young individuals and happy to offer and share now, but maybe you about it, so test. Some facts about our advising strategy. So one of those key components that you want to look at is is advising so pre health. Programs provides my office provides advising in particular questions of how to match the coursework will be our health professions planning and then your advisor Department on advisor.

Who might be biology?

Miss you might be psychology advisor that or it might be any of our majors that that advisor provides the particular advising related to that field and so we working work together to make sure that the student gets both the advising related to the the major as well as they pre health planning and planning for health professions. We have over 600 students in pre health programs, very active group.

Keeps me busy all the time we provide services for all pre health pathways, which should summarize them for you and I can give you an understanding of the choices that you have so it's pre. Med is credential and all the others. We really strive to create the data and do the studying and having numbers that we've been used to support of the student success, but at the same time, it needs to be a human touch that we are bad bad these type of services build on so knowing the people.

Having that kind of an individual is advising and I think Liddy Akris that all professors know their students, various stuff. Yeah, it's a very, very close knit community. I know the pre health. Students even fold them being 600 known very well and our professors do as well.

And and we also offer uh in terms of medical dental and veterinary schools, which really appreciate the committee. Bergen packet on students is behalf. We provide that service so lady are for instance, is getting ready to come in front of our committee to be fully evaluated and prepared and and and access then get ready with the help of workshops and we help with an interview to get the students and their package.

I'm a student herself himself ready to apply and be successful. Once June comes and it's time to submit the application packets. And we also offer alumni network for students support, which is very active students come back. All the time. Just let in next month. We have a student coming over from another from a medical Scott local from Philadelphia College of osteopathic medicine in this case, and sees the former pre health society president so.

So the idea is very happy to welcome her exciting yes. So we have a lot of those type of connections and opportunities for you. They did you need to drink water?

So it's over then uh so, so these are the areas that we cover justice. Examples you can be interested in any any health profession and and we have a framework for you to take courses that prepare you so-called prerequisites. It can be medicine and we have students going full for the MD verb. Allopathic medical school side as well as Osteopathic Medicine, which which is another fully licensed medical pathway.

As for uh for for our students. We officer students going to Dentistry Veterinary Medicine. We also have a very large pre nursing program will soon explain what that means in our our context. We don't have nursing college but we have students have really interested in nursing and I am a nurse myself so I also promote that while I work with the entire community. We have large physician Assistant Student Community Pharmacy students and any of the other.

Other physical therapy, public health health care management, Occupational Therapy. So you have a lot of options to choose from, and all of those are part of our service and support to you as you make your plans of what is the best fit for you?

Everybody's always a little scared about pre health in terms of the academic recur and what goes into it. So I let lady a comment on how to prepare and what it's like to be a student.

In these areas and uh and what it means on a daily basis. We also have another slide of sort of looking at how to manage the prerequisites, but maybe first something general about what it means you know what that kind of perspective to study is from your point of view, yeah, so starting off. It is definitely a more daunting major when you first look at it, but then once you're in the full swing of it once you know your professors.

It's extreme like everyone's extremely helpful. They are here to support you in here and got your back. They don't want to see you fail and so no matter what you can always go to them for help both professors Doctor Gardner.

And with like Prereq Prereqs. There's it's very simple. Where in your major you choose. You can be chemistry. Biology Biochemistry Psych, but you all have those general classes in the beginning and freshman sophomore year where you're taking your John Camp, where you get to really start to know the professors as well as your fellow classmates and from there, you start building on.

And learning what you would like to do pre professional either. If it's becoming a PA, becoming a dentist a physician and that really starts beginning to form your freshman sophomore year. That's right? What would you say as a little bit of a tip in terms of like how to know how to choose a major that is, you know, right thing? How did you choose your major coming in I definitely didn't know I was interested in applying to?

Either something medical medical or PA, but then as my studies build upon each other. I really wanted to do Medison. I thought it was so captivating and I think that's I really found that be through through both experience talking to different speakers that came to speak with pre health society as well as my classes. I'm currently in a cancer biology class right now and it's really leaning me towards.

On Koleji as a specialty so just taking those classes talking to different people that come speak to us. It's really informative of how you want to shape your future is in the students get domain may close course choices and think a little bit of a bread in Norway in summer before the courses start and then then look into it as they progress through therefore, not everybody is ready to take both biology and chemistry immediately but that usually is the standard packet?

Depends on an individual what's the best match. I want to go back. We having a good question here. Go back to the slides are related to what areas we cover and we have a question whether we cover optometry. Yes, we do test test yesterday. One of our optometry. Students aren't pre optometry. Students are came by they've questions related to his field. He is now sophomore and planning on.

Planning in progressing in that career so yes, optometry is definitely one of our pathways and and we create an excellent foundation in terms of course, work, but you get here and we just gotta news from one of our student applicants who applied who just got in or like adding a little while ago but had great success. Optometry definitely covered covered and yes, yes, physical therapy as well. You know, we, we that is a smaller program here at Loyola.

Partly because there are colleges as you may have known that some colleges offer sort of an entry pathway for physical therapy and then you get some sort of choose initially to be in that pathway as an undergraduate student student what we offer instead as you do your full degree here, you get really sort of a strong robust foundation and then you apply physical therapy is definitely.

Great broken for our students and once they applied to the programs where they you know they go to Top programs in at University based program offering so, so physical therapy equally covered and.

And all the coursework like anatomy and Physiology. It included microbiology included statistics included all those courses, but you need to be prepared and you have? What courses schools ask for. And yes, an if you can start as a pre Med. Can you switch to previous you might even want to say a few words about that? Yeah, you definitely can there are some classes that differ from premed in pre PA.

For applying to schools such as microbiology is no direct yeah for medicine.

So that's another one point, it's not trash, but you can. I was recently this week. I'm talking to a recent graduate who graduated last year and she was pre Med but now she's doing pre PA. She's applying to pH school. Instead, yes, so it's you can change. Whenever you want. You just have if you didn't take those courses. You can easily just take those courses once again and.

If you know earlier than you Taylor toward making sure you do the right level of anatomy and Physiology. If you so for instance, a sophomore realize that look that's my my direction is going to be BA and then you transition. You might realize it as a senior and then you might need to catch up with one or 2 courses. If you already created a valid that you originally filed might be for medicine. But when you look at those prerequisites. You can see here 2 examples, so medicine.

You have you have a 2 and half year sequence of chemistry. Chemistry is really a intense in a certain sense from for medicine. You have general chemistry for whole year and organic chemistry for a whole year and then you have biochemistry for half a year. So you will have those you have physics. You'll have a foundation or biology for sure, and typically of course, some more mathematics, but then you look down for pre nursing and our sincere about the pre nursing.

You actually have a little bit more specific courses. It specifically says anatomy and Physiology. It's basic specifically you need statistics. Specifically, you need made then the nutrition microbiology and votes elections. All of them are available here at Loyola for you to choose from, and 2.

I trust your menu, according to word what your strengths and interests are and I had a student who just the other day, said she said. At the beginning of the year. She was actually be a physician assistant now. He came back, he said. No actually medicine now, so an all none of it is too late. So so that's that's that's all good in terms of changing thanks for those good questions. Anything you had to add an academic prerequisites that post immediate slides.

No, I think I think that's good, yeah, so we can, we can proceed to highlight one of the areas where we get a lot of questions and that's nursing nursing is changing so quickly and there are so many ways of doing nursing and there is the traditional nursing college model? Which of course, is very important and a great choice for many there is even the option of just doing associates degree and then getting an RN or for that's getting smaller and smaller but that is still a prominent.

Historical option, especially our model is prominent around the country, increasing the prominence over out of all new nurses who get their license. You're about 20% of them have come from our type of a model their way. Dude, regular undergraduate and then you do these prerequisites that you saw priorly Here in the screen, there, you do the nursing prerequisites favors and then hours.

Students then typically applied directly to nursing Masters and and do our background study of Rod. You know have a little bit of open options if if so, if it's helpful and then then then go directly to nursing Masters degree programs in accelerative programs and these are new models, but they're prominently have amazing success for our students to really for type programs in nursing and it's really exciting right now as to how nursing is changing.

It's not for everybody. This is for nursing. Students were really interested in Sciences, who wanna sort of travel a little bit between the studies and and have a little bit of freedom during undergraduate years and who are also have a sense of leadership focus forward future who really who really benefit from the option, but definitely nursing. The student population. We have both young men and young women interested in this which is also exciting we have several young men have gone into.

A nursing Masters programs from where your line and now I'm really excited to be in that in that role. So so do you definitely consider also nursing as 1 option and remember? How quickly nursing is changing as a as a field?

We wanna also highlight the excellence that we have here. Let me see we are uh. We had a question let let let let us look at it. Yes, yes, yes, let yeah. Let's answer the question, we're going to get to the study abroad. But I think it's nice to make sure we cover it while you are doing your your special programming an opportunity such as you know, focusing on that academic study. We have a question whether study abroad becomes possible? How is mentioned here in our slide.

Uhm you wanna plan for it, but tell Lydia you went to Denmark for for yourself, so uhm. I was able to study abroad in Copenhagen, Denmark. My fall junior year and that was an amazing opportunity. So I knew freshman year. They start exposing you to study abroad and telling you about the different places. You can go there's about 30 more than 30 locations and some are very tailored 2 more.

A pre health pre science like science majors and Fortunately Copenhagen was one of them so I was able to take two biology classes in them in.

It's I was never behind I you definitely do plan around it because sophomore year is when you start applying so from there, you start planning? What type of course, is you want to take your junior year in your senior year, too.

Finish all those courses in time as well as have your pre reckon prereqs and time to apply to your medical school year, dental school. So yes, we definitely and we highly be emphasized that you're proud as an option. We have international community in the faculty for instance, in among the administrators to myself, I'm from Finland. I've lived in many countries. So I also personally emphasize it. And for our Fellowship Program V emphasized through that as well so 42% of our.

Premedical student study of Pride and then for other health professors students. It's even a little higher and and so definitely study abroad. We have some progress had like Denmark would have special focus areas in pre health and Newcastle has one of those that we also have brokers if you've planned your study you might not be taking natural Sciences of pride, but you might be taking more culture related courses instead. So so that that that is an important option.

Option for for us, but for you to consider and I think the study abroad is yes study abroad is always an important topic. That's why we have a slide for it. We know right of students are really excited about it. And yes, we recommend study abroad and sometimes students feel that they want to really sort of like focus on their their pathway. We've definitely say that's great as well. We also have summer options. So we actually the young young man here in the picture then then to prod.

To you know with our summer study program in opportunity, which is known as Channing Scholarship. So Nick himself chose that he didn't wanna go and study abroad during the school year. But he used to summer opportunity and was successful in gaining the scholarship and.

Olivia and so, so and now he's at University of Maryland Medical School. So so we recommend finding a way if possible, and.

Uh if not been reading about international issues. We have really promote options that not only no study abroad may not be for everybody, but you can always learn about international issues and and it's an important part of health care as well.

Those are good questions did the answer all the questions Oh yes. Yes, I think the study abroad created a lot of questions questions for us. Let's go a little bit back to our slides and I'll connect us to the opportunity. So we offered in various things for you in terms of making sure that we have in-house services for you for experiences. We have a large program for about 30 students. Many of whom stay 3 years with the program. It's called health outreach.

Baltimore it's at Mercy Medical Center in downtown Baltimore that as dedicated already 150 years to service of of Baltimore citizens. So we're very proud of that partnership and we have students in 4 different departments or related to family and children and their students work with social resources and community resources and supportive resources for families who are in the in the hospital, but need that extra to make sure that their families are ready to.

Drive once they go back home, so it might be food stamp snap. It might be utility assistance. It might be employment connections. And this spring, students right to the heart of a hospital working independently on. On on opportunities. They really can practice scales really broad range of scales are too too.

You know to hold responsibility call every week for their shift reflect on it on weekly meetings and.

And create outcomes follow-up so students follow up their clients as they progress and then they also create the closing documents in terms of making sure that we say like what was the outcome was it successful? How did the client acquire what they needed so we're proud of this offering for you which is celebrated 5 years so we are into our 60 year and over the years we have served and engaged with.

500 families in this year, we are even more so by the time the numbers are coming together and we also offer strong connections for research which is an important and you've done research in so many ways right lady.

I'm doing sociology research with one of my sociology professors and it is health related. We're looking at quality of life with patients who have fibrous dysplasia, so with that. I'm looking at data getting different information from that data and running frequencies on it, and it's very interesting because it will be eventually published in the spring later in the spring and I'll get to speak on it, and it's interesting 'cause. It's a topic you really never would have learned before.

And there's so that's more computer based research. But then there's also research with professors that you can do in their labs where you're working with cells. You're working with all different instruments in the laboratory and getting really great experience from it. Yes, yeah, that's right. You can do research. We've professor you can do research. Both natural Sciences and social Sciences and I myself have mentored several research students throughout the years in terms of pre health in mind would then.

See that social science, Humanities perspective to medicine, but there now. Students typically do chemistry. Biology research as well as C copper to nitties at Hopkins at University of Maryland, local institutions and we have provided opportunity for students to do research for credit either at Loyola or heading out downtown or in other place to do research and get credit for it here at Loyola we have a question.

And by veterinary medicine and Anna students. We have never wear a special vendor replacements. We don't have a direct bridge program for veterinary students, but students have been very successful in reaching out to people for local communities here as well as as there as well as their communities back at home. We do offer programs that bridge students. The local SPCA or animal rescue as well as fund raising for animal related costs so.

Students also create collapse that relate to veterinary medicine and bring their sort of active initiative. In that way, and each year. We have few veterinary student applicants. Let's not for large largest of our programs. But definitely one of one would always had open houses. People are really interested in another really welcome. We have a very large animal science biology Department, so that is definitely covered very well for students interested in veterinary medicine.

We also support in terms of opportunities for research. We support in national grants. An international grants. So we have just students at 11 students applied to do research into Germany and have just been interviewed with had a lot of movement for them to do research in Germany River dot right scholarship, which is their picks. An internship program and we have also success for students applying for scholarships during their time here at Loyola.

Uh in a in a international and national competitive levels in and including then also the full pride. And such awards, which which come right after graduation year. So we have a very robust. Fulbright program with a Fulbright recipients last year and this year. We are waiting and hoping for good numbers again. We have a nice number of finalists. So hopefully that results focused access for students once again.

And we at the emphasized these kind of special opportunities as ways of learning about yourself, even as the process already and then obviously then the opportunity to go and study. We as a Fulbright scholar for an entire year of pride. After graduation is amazing and we have just recently had two premedical students receive both scholarships and Justin is just on his way to gilea ought to do public health. I reset research on obesity prevention men and physician training in that area.

And Sandy's into her second full Criterion, France, focusing on refugee health initiatives. So so really great opportunities for students in research and internships and and.

In getting that deeper volunteerism experience and I lead lady's share about that little bit more. Yeah, so there's definitely a lot of different activities to join once you are on campus and so as I said, before I am the president of the pre health society. And so that's kind of an umbrella club that involves both Predental Prenursing. So we both promote each others events and we get the word out to pre health students that these events are happening because.

They are really informative, um with that. We also hold a lot of different events. We've had army come in and we've done sutra clinics. We have blood drive every April as well as like CPR and BLS training and then.

We also have different honor societies, so a big one is try beta, which is the Biology Honor Society. And so you get different volunteering opportunities with that as well as just having really great opportunity to be apart of that society and then there are other clubs to join there's always relay for life. There's love your melons. There's so many different clubs going on that are not pretty health related that gets you involved with different sides of loyal and besides just the medical.

Free house inside of it. Yeah, an and one of the things that we, we also do we really promote the connection between all our areas of learning and health because health health care is always about people? It's not it's about science, but it's also about people and putting those 2 things together, so we really aim to put those 2 things together with students. So just tomorrow. We are gathering a group of about 2020 students in some professors are going to have a pre health related.

And so we are reading a book and environmental health. Uh and uh and gathering together with one of our professors. Doctor Maria Brown, who is a pediatrician and an environment focuses on environmental health as well as a professor so she's going to lead us to discuss doctor. Monahan addition spoke would be. I don't see that looks at at the Flint water crisis and pediatricians log into that.

So so we the author all those kinds of opportunities along with speaker events. Alumni events which lady I has been coordinating just recently. We had an event on Monday for students to do, yeah, so we had the Pre Health Committee, which a lot of both seniors and juniors will go in front of in order to apply to both medical dental and veterinary in schools. So yes, and somebody has just a good question about honor societies and and how they how we work so.

And they were they are related to honors program that's a very good question. So honors program. We also do by the way have students who are honors program students in our pre. Med and pre health. That's a nice combination. It gets to be obviously very intense in terms of making sure you have a good schedule in no time management skills and you are interested in that Prada range of study. But in terms of the honor honor societies, they go across the field and there are so many kinds of Honor societies via independent from.

Of of any particular program and you can have Biology Honor Society, Chemistry Honor Society. They have a Jesuit Honor Society and students want to join a few of them and and not a ton of them. That's not necessary, but a few of them at express' very interesting where emphasis so just this week or last week. We applications to build for Biology Honors Society were made available and we provide them a lot of students are interested in that.

For instance, and then we have a question question on the OK. Yes yes and they were there opportunities and experiences that help to decide between careers tell about the speaker series and such. I think a major part of that is going to these different speaker events that come, we've had both doctors and pa's Come and speak as well as admissions counselors from both of those schools as well, and a recent event. We had in the fall was a bunch of.

Past alumni who are currently at University of Maryland Medical School came and spoke, so if you maybe are deciding between the two you can attend that event here. The student perspective from that side and maybe decide from there like if that is for you, or for it's not, but really attending those different events are extremely informative in deciding what you want to do in your future in the author also programming every year we offer smaller health professions related we've had genetic counseling speakers.

He had a chiropractic college common represent so that we also offer both hidden chance. We have to be encouraged students to consider Podiatry so do you know to come to think of ideas and think Bradley so that's a very good question and we only next week will have in School of Nursing is coming with their admissions officer students are considering nursing can think of median bit of a council.

Admissions counselor as well as with two of our alarms who have who are at Hopkins doing their nursing. Masters degree program so definitely that kind of discernment is really important part of of what we offer we offer also workshops by the time you're closer to applying time so just yesterday. We met for a workshop. This has been a busy week.

Busy weekend pretty heartbroken said. We made it for a workshop for students were getting ready to apply for medical school and not going through the different stages. We have a good question about the opportunities and EMT program. We actually Baltimore isn't little bit in a unique situation like Baltimore City only has an EMT professionally empty. So it is not a volunteer force. Instead, it's only professional fire firefighters and EMTs.

So all our students who wanna do EMT opportunities have to go to Baltimore County. We started a program of creating an EMT training for our students. It turned out to be one of the most difficult things to do because it requires like absolutely steady participation, according to their program metrics. We end up giving up for training option.

But students will already have a certification can apply for refresher course, according to Maryland standards, which is just 24 hours usually and they can really start working in Baltimore County as volunteer EMTs.

Great great questions, we appreciate almost from this question.

So so we already spoke about the study of prod and the the opportunity opportunities there, so I think we have a fairly good understanding how valuable that is for us and how much we appreciate the opportunity for our students to study abroad and gain that perspective anything to add in that. Yeah, I I mean, I highly recommend. It was one of the best like 4 months of my life right there because you get to experience a different culture as well as.

You know continue your studies it's really phenomenal. Yes, yes, yeah, and we had to buy the way follow up question about the EMT certification. So yes, there is not a clap or with EMT certification right now because of a challenge college students. Come and go a little bit too much to get a half of your program in because the college school term is a little bit shorter, so that has been a challenge. However, we have a lot of students students doing certified nurses aid programs and that local people to offers very nice ones.

We are actually considering of bringing something off at range here as well. Certified nurses aide is an excellent other opportunity to serve directly, especially for physician assistant students who need so much experience is to get that certification EMT or certified. Nurses aide but again good volunteer appropriate volunteer opportunities and Assembly jobs can really build on in very real.

2 I wanted to also include here, a slide that I know a lot of you are us is sort of thinking about us to our success numbers and and and and the outcomes. It's an important decision for US families and we of course, are here. They view we provide those services, for students to succeed for all professions and including the committee service. Lydia is getting ready for the committee. Sir teller tell about little bit, for do you think the committee will be like you know like now with you?

Done your stages in your account to be interviewed in a few months, yeah, so there's a couple of different components of the committees. So you have to get 3 letters of recommendation from your professors who know you well who you both taught you and all that and then as well as a personal statement explaining why you want to go into this field.

And so you bring that 4th to the committee and they interview you and decide if you are a very good candidate and highly recommend you there's a bunch of different levels, with it or if they decide to not recommend you this year and that's only to help you and only to further your application so that when you do apply again. You are a very successful candidate and that's what they really want from you is to be a successful candidate. 'cause they're going to help you and not.

Just push you put you down and then by the time you students do the Loyola Loyola's committee. They get a committee letter, which is where your life support to their application, which means a ton at the application time. So it's important, and Ivy so the question of somebody just asking about the slides in terms of his access outcome. So here are our numbers. We do have a very solid numbers to offer across the fails. Some years where I of course, and this year, the upcoming year is looking very, very, very strong.

And some have had years when they have had you know be sort of at the national level, but largely speaking you can see that we have great success numbers in terms of a 5 year average 77% when we count when we count over a student applicants together very include that meat that number means that the 77% is when if a student is a repeat applicant and then become successful. They accounted only as one application rather than 2.

So we run your numbers you can see, there as well for the past years, maybe a little bit small, even I can see.

Yeah, so, so for the national average is 39%. So we are very solid. Lena in a comfortable place with the type of programming that we offer same for dental school students at smaller number so data sometimes their eyes a little bit more. But then for all other health professions as well. It's it's phenomenal success. I was students are really strong applicants for physician Assistant Nursing Physical Therapy schools and and going.

You know really to talk programs in Loyola's degree is very appreciated and as it is also appreciated by the time you know companies call us and say do you have more of the same for you know for the copier students when they're looking for work and they've had a Loyola Student Priorly. They just really love a type of quality that our students represent so, so the most data highlights are there, but I have more numbers. Of course, which I can then share maybe you are coming to the open house so that would be a great way to talk more.

You know about those numbers are after as well so and so in in terms of of a question that if you after after your graduation if if you don't go directly into medical school or Health Professor School but you take that one year or 2 years to work its health care for all of our students. All of our pre health. Students work in healthcare medical assistance medical aids medical technicians scribes research what else would you list in that?

List.

Research for clinical research coordinating.

Program coordinator research coordination coordination and students very quickly progress during that year as they haven't getting ready to go to graduate degree programs. They had by the way an important question about nature. So so lady's major is biochemistry. That's one popular. You don't need to be a science major, but by our biochemistry chemistry biology, definitely popular but we have students very.

Another popular options options interdisciplinary major so you can be interdisciplinary major in psychology, and biology biology and sociology biology, and history. So you can create your own major. We have a student who created her own public health major combining a few components. So so you can definitely use some creativity as soon as you get the prerequisites and something extra. You don't want to just get the barebone minimum of science is you want to get more so you're prepared.

For the M cat, but definitely you have flexibility flexibility. There they have more questions and it is uh yes. Yes, yes, but that's that's correct they had a student exactly it is exactly so that pre health is programming. IT service it set of ways of managing your academics and your experiences and your career preparation. It pre health programs, travel review throughout the four years.

But it's not the major you still choose that nature, which you don't need to declare until sophomore Christmas Tutu at you have a little bit of flexibility.

And they have a night additional question there. There are uh. It's yes. Yes yes 04 pre nursing students. We have students majoring stealing biology or bio psychology, so combination of psychology and biology is very popular for them. We have a lot of students double majoring in writing and biology, so combining those and several free nursing students have bad combination. So they will become strong writers stung document keepers as well as then solid background in Sciences.

So and we have psychology majors. We just had our one of our students went to Columbia School of Nursing from our pre health programs. And when she was met there by 2 over Loyola students who had actually not done pre health. Programs may be a little bit older and they had done their own pathway, but one of them was psychology. Major never was business major from the original undergraduate degree and then found their ways to a type program in nursing.

Anything else to add what do you have in your mind Lydia?

OK, yes. Yes, yes, let's yes. Yes, yes, the honors program do you have friends in honors program have premed lady anything anybody come in your mind you think of anyone I definitely can, we have several students, but each year. We have about so each year of our applicants. About 3 to 5 of them are unrest program. Students each year. We have about 45 applicants to medical if you look at medical school and so differently honors program is.

In the mix uh it, it creates a rigorous foundation. It's great that Humanities program program context, but but students have loved the mix. We have in the current set also a student who is now works at Mercy Medical Center for the cab year as an and.

This program student and did have overage Baltimore did a lot of things and was a very strong science student as well. So you can combine the both and I consider that kind of pathway for you.

Let's see if you have additional questions coming in uh yes. Uh yes, yes and veterinary medicine question that that that it's a similar.

There's a veterinary medicine has exactly the same prerequisites as medicine, the direct prerequisites for veterinary medicine is that you need your that you need chemistry. All of 80 biochemistry. General chemistry, organic chemistry biochemistry. You need physics. You need mathematics and unique Biology Foundation. But the Biology Foundation can be animal biology proudly in prod great broadly defined so the students then.

Then take a little bit of a classroom or of Animal Sciences. But they also have microbiology and saturate apply both to humans and animal populations, so very similar to medical medical score pathway.

Effect we've gotten really very nice questions very nice opportunity to meet with you, we are going to be uh.

Open house all of them February March and April and that's a great place to meet with student student leaders tune volunteers students from from our programs, too.

Do you know meet face to face with love just meet you then and and present similar but a little bit longer set of slides at that point as well as have doctor bar will be at the open house and he's the cultures of committee with me for medical school students. So so he holds important role. So he will be available at the open house as well as a student speaker. Perhaps lady again. But at the first one, is going to be a young man by name with Colin.

Calling nest so, so we will definitely have a nice program for you for the open house is as well. We wish you all of this with your decisionmaking it's an exciting time for the students. It's really exciting time for families. It's a lot of work. I know both as a parent and as somebody who talks to parents a lot, but it's mostly it's a very exciting time for you and I wish you all the best with that decision making and I'm so excited you're considering Loyola Loyola is my home away from home. I love it.

And I think you would love it as well. I love lady. I say the last word. Thank you all for coming. It's really. I love the school and I would not have chosen a different one. Everything every year. I've just confirms that in pre health was.

With Doctor Garner along here like she's helped every step of the way so.

That's great. Thank you very much for your time have a wonderful evening.