Health Professions Advisory Committee


Helping you prepare for graduate study in the health professions.

Students presenting a medical poster.

An undergraduate degree at Beloit College will prepare you for a variety of post-grad programs in healthcare. Our Health Professions Advisory Committee (HPAC, comprised of Beloit College professors) will help each student develop their own narrative of academic, emotional, work, personal, interpersonal, and professional skills development to successfully prepare for a career in healthcare.

Pre-health students at Beloit…

  • include pre-med, pre-physical therapy, pre-nursing, pre-dental, pre-vet med, pre-PA, pre-pharmacy, and many, many other options!
  • often major in: biochemistry, health & society, biology, chemistry, Spanish, anthropology, psychology, as the degree-requirements for these majors often overlap with the prerequisite courses for professional healthcare programs; but you could major (and minor) in anything during your time at Beloit.
  • often participate in our student-run Pre-health Professionals Club.
  • connect with alumni, shadowing and internship opportunities, and other events through the School of Health Sciences.
  • engage in hands-on research projects with Beloit faculty through programs like McNair Scholars, Pakula Biomedical Research Scholars, or through undergraduate research programs at other institutions.
  • get hands-on health care experience working as a certified nursing assistant, a phlebotomist, an emergency medical technician, or a medical scribe. Funding opportunities available through the Career Works.
  • have successfully continued on to… nursing MSN programs at Johns Hopkins, medical school at Medical College of Wisconsin, pharmacy school at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Physical Therapy programs at Carroll University and the University of Southern California, Infection Prevention and Epidemiology MS at the University of Providence, and many more!

The Health Professions Advising Committee plays three major roles on campus:

  1. We make sure that students know what classes they should be taking to prepare for admission to health profession training programs and how and when to prepare for admission exams.
  2. We evaluate students applying to medical training programs to provide a committee (or institutional) opinion of the applicant through the writing and submission of a committee letter to prospective training programs.
  3. We work closely with the School of Health Sciences to coordinate with local healthcare providers, alumni, and the Beloit pre-health student club to help students understand and obtain the non-classroom experiences expected of competitive applicants.
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