Pre-Medical Options

Human Physiology Program

Sargent College’s Human Physiology major is an excellent option for students who want to apply to medical school and other health related graduate programs. The curriculum has the required pre-medical courses built directly into the program. Other coursework, such as gross human anatomy, exercise physiology, and nutrition has an applied, human focus. The program also fulfills many prerequisites for the following graduate programs:

  • Medical, Dental, Osteopathy and Veterinary Schools
  • Physical Therapy, Occupational Therapy and Speech, Language Pathology programs
  • Physician Assistant and Nursing programs
  • Health Administration
  • Education
  • Public Health
  • Nutrition

Sargent College provides students with a broad liberal arts education and, in addition to requiring a select number of humanities and social science electives, we encourage students to study abroad and to declare a minor in an area beyond their concentration. Minors are available in over 30 fields, including: applied music, archaeology, modern foreign languages, psychology, biology, chemistry, speech, language and hearing sciences, and nutrition. Sargent students interested in medical school use the BU Preprofessional Advising Office Services.

Students also have the option in their last semester to do an internship in a hospital or clinical setting. This is set up by program faculty in any one of over 70 internship sites in the greater Boston area.

Nutritional Science Option

The Nutritional Science Option incorporates courses required by most medical schools in the United States. Students should become familiar with the particular requirements of the medical schools to which they intend to apply.

In addition to incorporating the pre-medical courses, the option includes courses in human nutrition, physiology, human infectious disease, life cycle nutrition, community nutrition and a two-semester medical nutrition therapy sequence.

Modular Medical Integrated Curriculum

The Modular Medical Integrated Curriculum (MMEDIC) provides students with the opportunity for early selection to the Boston University School of Medicine while they are still undergraduates. Students apply to the program in the spring of their second year. Upon acceptance, MMEDIC students enroll in courses that enable them to simultaneously fulfill undergraduate science requirements and certain requirements of the first and second year of medical school. This approach allows students a greater degree of flexibility once they are in medical school.