Health Professions Advising offers connections and seminars throughout the academic year. Seminars may be health profession specific or general pre-health development. Click here for the full list of all Aggie Connections.
Winter Quarter
- Pre-Veterinary: Path to Success
Are you interested in working with animals or becoming a veterinarian? Join our Pre-Vet FYAC to learn more about the pathway to veterinary school. You will learn about veterinary school requirements, experiences and resources available to you at UCD. There will be a combination of guest speakers and discussions. This course is a 1-unit EDU 098 course.
When: Thursdays, 5:10pm - 6pm
Where: 1010 Valley Hall (Vet School Campus)
CRN: 42377
Register for Pre-Veterinary Path to Success in ScheduleBuilder.- Choosing a Health Profession
- Interested in a healthcare career in the future, but unsure of which one? We will cover what you can do throughout your time at UC Davis to explore health professions and be a successful pre-health student! This group will provide an overview of multiple health professions, including career options, pre-reqs, gaining experiences, applying for programs, and more.
When: Tuesdays, 1:10pm - 2pm
Where: Health Professions Advising Building, 1090 Blue Ridge Road, Room 119
This Connection is non-credit and open to all new students (first-year freshman, transfer, and international students).
Register Here
Spring Quarter
- HPA x UCD Betty Irene School of Nursing: Careers in Nursing Seminar
- HPA is excited to announce that we will offer a two-unit Careers in Nursing Seminar in Spring Quarter 2024, in collaboration with the Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing!
This course is designed for pre-nursing students, at any stage in their preparation for becoming a nurse, to explore the pathways to a nursing career. It will feature group and individual presentations, current nursing student and career nurse panel speakers, guest speakers from the School of Nursing, and a tour of the School of Nursing. Students will learn how to write personal statements, develop a school list, and research various qualities of nursing programs to become competitive nursing school candidates.
Fall Quarter
- Navigating Pre-Med as a First-Year Student
- Interested in becoming a doctor in the future, but unsure of where to begin your pre-med journey? This Connection will cover what you can do during your first year and beyond to be a successful pre-med student! Learn all about what being pre-med actually entails - we will discuss common myths, look at medical school prerequisites and learn how to manage your classes on the quarter system, explore health-related experiences you can do at UC Davis, provide guidance on building relationships with faculty, and more.
- Black Students in White Coats
- Are you feeling discouraged in pursuing medicine as a student of color? Health Professions Advising (HPA) is passionate about supporting the diversity of pre-health undergraduate students here at UC Davis. Join HPA as we welcome current Black medical students and Kaiser physicians to share their individual journeys into medicine. Each week, we’ll have a panel of professionals that will share advice and strategies on how to navigate this path. You’ll receive inspiring and practical guidance for beginning your pre-health journey. You’ll also have time to ask lots of questions, so get connected!
*This identity-based Connection is a focused experience for first-year undergraduate students of the African diaspora at UC Davis - Narrative Medicine: Finding the Value of your Story in the Process of Preparing for Medicine
- In partnership with the Narrative Pre-Health Journal, this Connection will help students understand the value that they bring to medicine through the Humanities. Observation, analysis, empathy, and reflection combined, act as powerful tools for how we process the human experience. This Connection will expose students to different topics/perspectives in healthcare through a variety of mediums (writing, reading, video, etc.) where they will be able to engage with the material through group discussion and written reflection. Participants will produce writing that can be submitted for publication in our literary journal.
- Pre-Veterinary: Path to Success
- Are you interested in working with animals or becoming a veterinarian? Join our Pre-Vet FYAC to learn more about the pathway to veterinary school. You will learn about veterinary school requirements, experiences and resources available to you at UCD. There will be a combination of guest speakers and discussions. This course is a 1-unit EDU 098 course.