The course work, as well as specialized training opportunities and volunteer work, allow students to gain valuable, medically related experience to prepare them for the rigors of medical or dental school with the goal of becoming highly qualified doctors or dentists. During their freshman year, students will choose a specific major such as biology, chemistry, physics or another major in which they are interested. There are no restrictions in their selection of a major since medical schools do not show a preference for specific majors in their selection process. In their junior year, students will be assigned to spend a significant amount of time with a practicing physician or dentist through our preceptorship program in order to gain an understanding of the professional working aspects of these careers. The application process to medical or dental schools will begin in the spring of the year the admissions test is taken.
Students typically take the admissions tests at the end of their junior year.
Students will be interviewed and recommended to medical or dental schools by the NMU Premedical or Predental Advisory Boards. Career Opportunities in Medicine or Dentistry Employment opportunities for physicians and dentists are widespread. Current trends call for more family practice and fewer specialized physicians. NMU students in general have the advantage of small classes, particularly at the upper levels, taught by regular, full-time faculty members, regardless of the selected major. Successful Outcomes NMU has had a high success rate in placing those students completing the program into medical and dental schools.