Introduction to Prehealth: Healthcare Fields, Requirements, & Resources

Catalog description

Intended for students who are beginning to explore their interests in moving towards admission into healthcare professional graduate programs, this course will provide information on how they can begin to prepare to become a healthcare professional and applying to required graduate programs. It will go over the different healthcare fields and what they entail, the different careers they can pursue related to these fields, as well as the requirements necessary to apply. The course will also introduce students to resources at NYU, in NYC and the tri-state area, within the US and outside of it related to healthcare issues and topics that will enhance their knowledge, their experience and their future applications. The use of the word "medicine" and "healthcare" in this course is mostly all-encompassing to include all healthcare professions.