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Pre-Health Professions

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Commonly Required Courses

These are typical requirements and recommendations for applying to dental programs.  If you are interested in applying to programs in one of the other health profession areas (medical, pharmacy, PA, PT, optometry, etc.) please review the recommended courses for that specific area. 

These should only serve as guidelines when beginning to plan a pre-health sequence.  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, what terms these courses are typically offered.

AreaSubjectLoyola Equivalent
Biology General Biology I BIOL 101 & 111
  General Biology II BIOL 102 & 1112
  Biochemistry BIOL 366 or CHEM 361
Chemistry Chemical Structure & Properties w/lab CHEM 160/161
  Chemical Reactivity I w/lab CHEM 180/181
  Chemical Reactivity II w/lab CHEM 240/241
  Quantitative Methods in Chemistry w/lab CHEM 260/261
  Biochemistry CHEM 361 or CHEM 370 or BIOL 366
Physics Physics I PHYS 111 & 111L or PHYS 125 & 125L
  Physics II PHYS 112 & 112L or PHYS 126 & 126L
Math College Algebra MATH 117
  Pre-Calculus MATH 118
  Calculus MATH 131 (or 161) is a pre-requisite for CHEM 260/261
English Composition Freshman Composition UCWR 110
  Upper Level Composition Course One Writing Intensive Course

Occasionally required courses include (but are not limited to):
Anatomy & Physiology, Microbiology, Cell Biology, Genetics, Molecular Genetics, Molecular Biology, Histology, Immunology, Statistics