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Click Play to View Pre-Professional Video The pre-professional program prepares students to pursue a healthcare career with a wholistic perspective. Good healthcare requires that healthcare providers be knowledgeable about culture, literature, history, art and music as well as science. A core curriculum at Roberts Wesleyan College prepares students to apply to medical school, pharmacy school, osteopathic medical school, dental school, veterinary medicine, optometry school, a physician assistant program or physical therapy program.
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| Program Distinctives
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Roberts Wesleyan College provides small classes, excellent equipment and resources, and a dedicated faculty that can provide both challenge and support in completing a rigorous pre-professional curriculum. Students receive excellent training in the sciences. The college has been the recipient of three National Science Foundation matching grants providing approximately $86,000 in total funds for the purchase of equipment used in the biochemistry, cell biology, and organic chemistry laboratories. As a result, students are given a variety of “hands on” experiences in the laboratory including automated column chromatography, nuclear magnetic resonance, tissue culture work, fluorescence microscopy, and high pressure liquid chromatography. 
Students receive individual assistance in planning their pre-professional program. Dr. David Roll serves as the Pre-professional Health Advisor and is a member of the National Association of Advisors for the Health Professions (NAAHP). Dr. Jason Taylor provides additional advising for pre-pharmacy students, and Dr. Cynthia Davis provides additional advising for pre-physical therapy students. Pre-professional group meetings are held throughout the year to inform students about current ethical issues, the admissions process for different professional schools and preparation for MCAT and other professional admission tests. Pre-professional students are included on an E-mail list that gives them updated information about healthcare issues, new healthcare programs announced by professional schools, scholarship and service programs sponsored by the Christian Medical and Dental Society, and changes in admissions requirements by different professional schools as they are disseminated to members of the NAAHP. Students are strongly encouraged to spend additional time outside the college classroom working in one or more healthcare-related areas of interest. This experience will give students a realistic and honest view of what current healthcare and health-related professional careers are all about. Pre-professional students also have the opportunity of spending time with former graduates of Roberts in the upstate New York area who can demonstrate what wholistic healthcare is about from a Christian perspective. Small classes in the Roberts portion of the program provide high-quality instruction and valuable personal interaction with professors and fellow students. Opportunities exist to gain practical experience as an assistant in the laboratory program.
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| Faith and Learning
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Nur ein guter Mensch kann ein guter Arzt sein”. Only a good person can be a good doctor. In the science programs at Roberts Wesleyan College, Christian faith and scholarship go hand in hand. Scholarship and education are both avenues by which students and faculty can offer their gifts and talents to the glory of God. Students have the opportunity to worship together with faculty and staff in chapel and to interact together in the Division of Natural Science and Mathematics at progressive dinners, pizza parties, and dinners with a variety of seminar speakers from outside the college. Invited speakers have included Dr. Frank Young, former Dean of the University of Rochester Medical School and former Director of the Food and Drug Administration, and Dr. Russ White, RWC graduate and surgeon at Tenwek Hospital in Kenya, Africa.
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Donna Alder, M.S., Associate Professor of Biology. B.S., Bethany Nazarene; M.S., University of Rochester. Specialties: general biology, human and animal anatomy, and physiology. At RWC since 1983. Jason Taylor, PhD., Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Pre-Pharmacy Advisor. BS, Baldwin-Wallace College; PhD., Indiana University. Specialties: bioanalytical chemistry, nanotechnology, and environmental science. At Roberts since 2003. Cynthia Davis, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Biology. BS Eastern Nazarene College; MA, Marquette University; PhD., Dartmouth College. Specialties: research on Saccharomyces cerevisiae. At Roberts since 2004. David E. Roll, Ph.D., Professor of Organic Chemistry, Biochemistry and Human Biology, Pre-Professional Health Advisor. Ph.D., University of Illinois. Specialties: Organic and biological chemistry. In 1996 Dr. Roll received a 2-year, $94,000 NIH AREA grant investigating new chemotherapeutic targets against Chlamydia bacteria. At Roberts since 1978. |
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Eighty-nine percent of the pre-professional students who apply to professional schools after completing their undergraduate programs at Roberts Wesleyan College are accepted. Students have entered a variety of professional schools including medical schools such as Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, University of Buffalo School of Medicine, State University of New York Upstate Medical University, Pennsylvania State University School of Medicine Hershey, and University of Michigan Medical School as well as medical schools in Canada. Students have also successfully completed programs in osteopathic medicine, pharmacy, dentistry, optometry, veterinary medicine, physical therapy, and graduated as physician assistants.