Pre-Medicine
Pre-requisite Requirements

Requirements for professional schools vary from school to school and can change year by year, students must carefully examine the pre-requisite requirements of the schools they are interested in to be current and accurate when registering for courses at Gustavus. Consult the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) guide for requirements and admission statistics to the 130+ Medical Schools for the most accurate information, Medical School Admission Requirements.

Four Year Plan (pre-requisite courses required for the MCAT and for Regional MD programs):

Medicine: Four Year Plan

Four Year Plans for common majors of MD students @ Gustavus:

Biology: Four Year Plan

Biochemistry and Molecular Biology: Four Year Plan

Chemistry: Four Year Plan

UNDECIDED: Two Year Plan (considering BIO, CHE or BIOCHEM)

*ANY undergraduate major is acceptable, as long as you fulfill the MD programs pre-requisite requirements.

Regional MD Programs Pre-requisite Requirements:

University of Minnesota

Creighton (Stats and Calculus) and (Human/Animal/Mammalian Physiology at the advanced level)

Medical College of Wisconsin 

University of Iowa: Carver College of Medicine

Mayo Clinic: Mayo Medical School

Loyola Stritch

University of North Dakota (Language Arts: English, Speech, etc. two course requirement)

Rosalind Franklin

University of Wisconsin (Stats and Calculus)

University of Illinois  (Three course requirement in the following disciplines: Psychology, Anthropology, Economics, Gender Studies or Sociology.  Two of the above three courses completed must be in the same field of study.)

Washington University (St. Louis)

University of Nebraska (Genetics requirement)

University of South Dakota

Consult the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) guide for requirements and admission statistics to the 130+ Medical Schools for the most accurate information, Medical School Admission Requirements.

Updated 4/6/2016 HB