Pre-Health Careers
Pre-Health Careers
A team of faculty advises and guides interested students toward meeting the expectations and requirements of medical, dental, pharmacy, veterinary, optometry, physical therapy, occupational therapy, nurse practitioner and physician assistant school. Wofford’s rigorous liberal arts curriculum, with a variety of opportunities like study abroad and January Interim clinical internships, prepares students to apply to these schools.
Meet Dr. John Moeller
Dr. John Moeller, professor of biology, is the acting coordinator of health careers advising. He teaches courses in introductory biology, animal behavior, neuroscience and physiology. He and other health career advisors throughout the sciences assist students in academic advising toward various professional programs. They also help arrange internships and host campus visits with medical school admission counselors, which provides Wofford students with the opportunity to make connections with these schools.
Meet Lilly Hatton ’23
Lilly Hatton is attending Indiana University School of Medicine. Majoring in biology prepared her for medical school and allowed her to take courses that she found interesting involving ecology and botany. She was a member of Wofford’s women’s basketball team and graduated with a 4.0 GPA.
Wofford currently has pre-health careers graduates attending:
Duke University School of Medicine
Emory University School of Medicine
Indiana University School of Medicine
Medical University of South Carolina
University of Kentucky
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
University of South Carolina School of Medicine
University of Tennessee
University of Texas Southwestern
Wake Forest University School of Medicine
Pre-health careers students have interned with:
Cincinnati Children’s Hospital
Harvard Medical School
Johns Hopkins University
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
National Institutes of Health
Nationwide Children’s Hospital
Oak Ridge National Laboratories
Prisma Health
Spartanburg Regional Healthcare System
St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital
St. Luke’s Free Medical Clinic
University of South Carolina School of Medicine
University of Texas Health Sciences Center