Skills from Conn to career
At Connecticut College, our pre-health professions students gain the ability to identify, polish and translate their skills to shadowing, internships, job searches and professional school applications:
- Research and quantitative skills
- Professionalism and ethical behavior
- Cultural competence
- Resilience and adaptability
- Leadership and service experiences
Career Informed Learning
Alumni and parents bring real-world problems to the classroom; students research, analyze and offer solutions.
Example: In Anthropology of Sexuality, a public health designated course, students were mentored by an alum who is the head of strategic projects for an international health concern.
Connections curriculum
Pre-Health students complete a major in their field of interest. To fulfill College requirements, they may also select from a number of innovative Integrative Pathways including Public Health; Social Justice and Sustainability; Power/Knowledge; and Global Capitalism. Other students may pursue a certificate from the Toor-Cummings Center for International Studies and the Liberal Arts; the Holleran Center for Community Action and Public Policy, the Ammerman Center for Arts and Technology or the Goodwin-Niering Center for the Environment. Pathways and centers offer an integrative approach to complete non-science prerequisites and community service, essential pieces to a strong professional school application.
Volunteer and Clinical Experiences
Students develop competencies through engagement on and off campus:
- Pre-Health Club: Students with interests in healthcare come together to learn about shadowing and volunteer activities, graduate programs, standardized test preparation, and interview skills.
- Yale New Haven Health Lawrence + Memorial Hospital: Students are able to gain volunteer and shadowing hours in the local New London community.
- Blood Drive Committee: Working with the American Red Cross, students organize on-campus blood drives to help those in need.
Internships
Students use their College Internship Program funding to build competencies and explore research, clinical, service and leadership opportunities.
Recent internships:
- Harvard University, Harvard Medical
- Tufts Medical Center, Tufts Dental
- Children's Hospital Boston
- National Institutes of Health
- Yale School of Medicine
- USC Keck School of Medicine
- Johns Hopkins
- Albert Einstein College of Medicine
- Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center
- Massachusetts General Hospital
- Children's National Medical Center
- Massachusetts General Hospital
- Children's National Medical Center
- Sea Life Park, Hawaii
- Roger Williams Park Zoo
- Philadelphia Zoo
- Oral Facial Surgery Institute and Implant Center
- Connecticut College Summer Science Institute
Go abroad as a CC pre-health student.
As your schedule permits and with planning and advice you can do a semester abroad or you may opt for an international summer internship to build intercultural competency. Recent international internships:
- Curie Institute, Paris, France
- Institut Valencia de Recuperacio Esportiva, Spain
- Casa Nica, Nicaragua
- Department of Psychiatry, University of Tübingen, Germany
Top schools CC alumni are attending:
- Harvard Medical School
- Brown University School of Medicine
- New York University School of Medicine
- Stony Brook University School of Dental Medicine
- Tufts University School of Dental
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- Tufts University School of Veterinary Medicine
- University of Connecticut School
of Medicine
- University of Massachusetts School of Medicine
- University of Maryland Medical School
- University of Maryland School of Dentistry
- University of New England Physician Assistant Program
- University of Pittsburg School of Medicine
- University of Texas Medical School
- University of Vermont Medical School
- Yale University School of Nursing