This is to notify you that MS in Nutrition at Columbia application deadline has been extended to June 30, 2008. Nutrition is increasingly regarded as a critical and major modality in biomedical sciences, general healthcare and international health. Graduate education in nutrition provides an excellent foundation for medical, dental, or doctoral training, as well as for careers in the pharmaceutical industry, public health and international development.
To meet the growing demand for advanced training in human nutrition, Columbia University’s Institute of Human Nutrition has developed three tracks for its M.S. degree in nutrition. In addition to the core M.S. courses that can be completed on a full-time basis in one year, they offer electives in one of the three tracks or areas of focus. This allows graduate students to focus on: 1) basic nutrition science research; 2) nutrition and public health; or 3) clinical nutrition. Students complete their MS thesis in either basic science or clinical research under the mentorship of faculty from any of twenty-five departments and affiliated institutions.
The MS program currently enrolls 70 students from diverse academic backgrounds and nationalities including the U.S., China, Canada and Turkey. Graduates of the Institute of Human Nutrition MS program go on to medical and dental school, the health care industry, healthcare communications, and public health. Admissions are done on a rolling basis and financial aid is available to qualified students. Applicants to the MS program are required to have completed two years of chemistry, one year of biology, and the Graduate Record Exam (GRE) or the Medical College Admissions Test (MCAT).
If you would like to speak with a program representative, please contact the Institute of Human Nutrition at (212) 305-4808, or Mandy Bischel or visit our website at to download an application.
If you are applying Early Assurance (sophomores ONLY) to the SUNY Upstate Medical College or to UB’s School of Dental Medicine, please note that the deadlines are approaching:
The SUNY Upstate deadline is July 1, 2009.
The deadline for a completed application to UB’s School of Dental Medicine is June 1, 2009.
If you have came through the spring 2008 Prehealth Committee in support of these applications, remember that we need a completed Release Form from you as well as a pre-addressed and stamped envelope for SUNY Upstate. The Release Form can be found by clicking on the link. You can turn both your Release Form and the pre-addressed and stamped envelope ($1.17 postage) to 109 Norton Hall.
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The MCAT Program plans to make MCAT scores from the April 12, 2007 administration available by 5:00pm(ET), May 16, 2007.
2007 Match: record number of U.S. seniors apply to residency programs
Last week, more than 15,000 U.S. medical school seniors participated in “Match Day” ceremonies nationwide to learn where they will spend their years of residency training following graduation. The record number of seniors applying for residencies through the National Resident Matching Program (NRMP) this year, nearly 200 more than in 2006, reflects recent increases in medical school enrollment. Results from the 2007 Match also showed a significant increase (9 percent) in the number of participants who are graduates of non-U.S. medical schools.
This year, 27,944 applicants vied for one of the 21,845 first-year residency positions available; 15,206 of these applicants were U.S. medical school seniors, 93 percent of whom matched to a residency program.
New Schools Will Help Alleviate Physician Workforce Shortages
With the addition of COM Mesa of AT Still University of Health Sciences, in Mesa, Arizona; the Debusk College of Osteopathic Medicine of Lincoln Memorial University, in Harrogate, Tennessee; and the TOURO College of Osteopathic Medicine in New York City, a new wave of future osteopathic physicians (DOs) will be prepared to help meet the nation’s increasing health care workforce shortage.
These three schools (slated to admit their first class in Fall 2007); two additional schools in the states of Washington and Colorado (planning to open in 2008); and the growth in class sizes at the existing colleges all will help strengthen the osteopathic medical field’s ability to provide high-quality health care to patients nationwide. And with osteopathic medicine’s special focus on primary care, especially in rural and urban underserved areas, we will be able to have a greater impact on the U.S. population’s health and wellbeing.
Dr. Steve Shannon, DO, MPH, President of the Association of American Colleges of Osteopathic Medicine
The Princeton Review is offering UB students $100 off their full, 102 hour, MCAT Course when they sign up by January 1st.
Students can enroll by calling 1-800-2-Review or online.
As per Princeton, The MCAT course price will not be increasing in the new year.
The Princeton Review
Phone: (716) 839-4391
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