About Us
Loyola Career Services provides support and guidance to students exploring, considering, and applying to programs in the healthcare field including medical school, dental school, and other allied health professions. Students can schedule an appointment through Handshake to meet with their dedicated career advisor. More information about Career Service’s offerings for pre-medical and pre-health students, including a list of typical course requirements and recommendations, can be found on the Health, Medicine, and Natural Sciences website.
Commonly Required Courses
These are typical requirements and recommendations for applying to medical schools. If you are interested in applying to programs in one of the other health profession areas (dental, pharmacy, PA, PT, OT, optometry, podiatry, etc.) please review the resources included below.
The health professional schools themselves provide the most accurate and up-to-date source of information. Students should begin researching specific requirements of health professional schools they are interested in early in their academic careers and continue this research through their academic careers as health professional schools typically update their required and recommended courses on an annual basis.
Students should also review Loyola department websites and LOCUS to determine relevant pre-requisites for courses listed below and what terms these courses are typically offered.
These professional association websites are additional resources that will likely be of value:
Occasionally required courses include (but are not limited to):
Molecular Genetics, Molecular Biology, Calculus, Additional Behavioral Sciences
