CoSM Pre-med checklist

First Year:

Meet regularly with your academic advisor

Fall

• Attend "Intro to the Health Professions" Workshop and meet with the Pre-Health Advisor to develop your schedule
• Develop good study habits and maintain a GPA of 3.5 or above
• Join Wright State Premedical Society or other student organizations
• Visit "Explore Health Careers" website
• Participate in pre-health activities

Winter

• Begin volunteer work in a medically-related field
• Read magazines, newspapers, novels, etc. to enhance your reading and verbal skills
• Maintain a GPA of 3.5 or above

Spring

• Look at a sample of the MCAT, DAT, GRE, or other admissions tests to get an idea of what these tests are like
• Meet with the Pre-Health Advisor to plan next year's schedule

Summer

• Enjoy the summer
• Volunteer
• Read everything you can
• Attend summer school, if necessary

Sophomore:

Meet regularly with your academic advisor

Fall:

• Attend "Intro to the Health Professions" Workshop and meet with the Pre-Health Advisor to develop your schedule
• Request admission test prep books as holiday gifts
• Get A's in Organic Chemistry
• Find out about research opportunities and summer internships
• Participate in volunteer/paid medically related clinical activities
• Stay involved in student organizations; develop leadership role

Winter:

• Maintain a GPA of 3.5 or above
• Seriously look at MCAT sample questions
• Get to know your professors
• Continue volunteering

Spring:

• Meet with the Pre-Health Advisor to plan next year's schedule
• Maintain your grades

Summer:

• Enjoy the summer
• Volunteer
• Start studying for the MCAT
• Attend summer school, if necessary

Junior:

Meet regularly with your academic advisor

Fall:

• Check in with Pre-health Advisor and participate in pre-health activities
• Continue participation in volunteer/paid medically related activities
• Continue involvement in Wright State Premedical Society (run for office, be a mentor)
• Investigate:

• Medical education options in MSAR and www.aamc.org/members/listings/msalphaae.htm
• Medical College Admission Test (MCAT) website (www.aamc.org/mcat)
• Information about the Medical College Admission Test and American Medical College Application Service (AMCAS) fee assistance on the AAMC Fee Assistance Program Web site (www.aamc.org/fap), as appropriate
• AAMC's "Applying to Medical School" Web site (www.aamc.org/students/applying/start.htm)
• As applicable, information for students from groups underrespresented in medicine on the AAMC Minorities in Medicine Web site (www.aamc.org/students/minorities/start.htm)

• Begin preparation for MCAT administration
• Successfully complete first-quarter required pre-medical coursework and other degree requirements
• Maintain a GPA of 3.5 or above
• Get to know your professors

Winter

• Meet with the Pre-Health Advisor
• Register for MCAT online at www.aamc.org/mcat
• Start to get letters of recommendation
• Do serious studying for the MCAT and/or take an MCAT prep course

Spring

• Consult regularly with Pre-Health Advisor regarding:

• Schedule for completion of school-specific requirements for advisor evaluation
• Advice about medical education options

• Continue participation in volunteer /paid medically related activities
• Take spring MCAT
• Work on personal statement for AMCAS or AACOMAS
• Investigate information about the:

• AMCAS Web site (www.aamc.org/amcas)
• Texas Medical and Dental Schools Application Services (TMDSAS) Web site (www.utsystem.edu/tmdsas/)
• Ontario Medical School Application Service (OMSAS) (www.ouac.on.ca/)
• American Association of Colleges of Osteopathic Medicine (AACOM) (www.aacom.org/)
• American Association of Colleges of Osteopathic Medicine Application Service (AACOMAS) (https://aacomas.aacom.org/)

• Investigate:

• As applicable, AAMC Curriculum Directory Web site (http://services.aamc.org/currdir) for information about medical school curricula and joint, dual, and combined-degree programs

Summer

• Participate in summer health careers program, if available
• Complete AMCAS application
• Take summer MCAT, if necessary
• Attend summer school, if necessary
• Investigate:

• AAMC Recommendations Concerning Medical School Acceptance Procedures for First-Year Entering Students document (www.aamc.org/students/applying/policies)

• Receive a copy of your MCAT scores
• Apply to medical school (July or August) via AMCAS or AACOMAS
• Contact the Pre-Health advisor to verify that all letters of recommendation have been received before July 1, and indicate where the letters should be sent

Senior

Meet regularly with your academic advisor

Fall:

• Complete supplementary application materials for schools applied to
• Consult regularly with Pre-Health advisor regarding:

• Completion of school-specific requirements for advisor evaluation
• Status of application/admission process at medical schools applied to

• Continue participation in volunteer/paid medically related activities
• Continue involvement with Wright State Premedical Society
• Visit schools when invited for interviews (see the Pre-Health Advisor interviews to help prepare)
• Interview at medical schools
• Continue review of medical education options
• Investigate:

• Financial aid planning process with AAMC (MD): Monetary Decisions for Medical Doctors online program (www.aamc.org/md2)
• Financial aid forms required by school of interest with the AAMC Financial Aid Forms Required by Medical Schools searchable database (http://services.aamc.org/msar_reports/)

Winter

• Maintain your grades (if you are not successful in gaining admission to medical school this year and you decide to try again next year, these grades will be important
• Decide if you need to retake the MCAT

Spring

• Celebrate your acceptance into medical school
• Make interm and final decisions about medical school choice
• Immediately notify medical schools that you will not be attending
• Graduate

Summer

• Enjoy your summer off before starting medical school
• Prepare for medical school enrollment: purchase books and equipment and make appropriate living arrangements
• Relax and prepare for medical school
• Attend orientation programs and matriculate in to medical school