Prerequisites
General Requirements
Degree
Applicants must hold a bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university in the United States. Students enrolled in their senior year of college are eligible to apply if the degree will be completed in May of the year of enrollment.
Grade Point Average
Applicants must have a minimum 3.0 overall GPA on a scale where “A” equals 4.0 to be competitive with others in the overall applicant pool.
Graduate Record Examination
Applicants must have a combined score of 1,000 or above on the verbal and quantitative, and 3.5 on the analytical components of the GRE General Test to be competitive with others in the overall applicant pool.
The web site for online registration for the GRE General Test is www.gre.org. When filling out the application you will be asked for an Institutional Code, a Department Code and a Major Field Code. The institutional code for Baylor College of Medicine is R6052. The departmental code is Natural Sciences and the major field code for Allied Health is 0601. Test scores cannot be more than five years old based upon the application deadline on October 1.
Course-Specific Requirements
Natural Science Courses
- Human Anatomy (4 credits)
- Human Physiology (4 credits)
- Microbiology (4 credits)
- General Chemistry (8 credits)
- Organic Chemistry (4 credits)
Non-Science Courses
- Statistics (3 credits)
- General Psychology (3 credits)
- Psychology Elective (3 credits)
- English Expository Writing (3 credits)
BCLS Certification
The course leading to certification must follow either the American Heart Association or American Red Cross guidelines. Online courses without practical experience are not acceptable. Current BCLS certification must be through April 2009.
General Information
The accelerated nature of the graduate-level curriculum offered by Baylor College of Medicine for students enrolled in the PA Program requires that applicants seeking admission provide adequate evidence of their ability to undertake an advanced course of study. When evaluating an applicant's readiness to matriculate in the PA Program, members of the Admissions Committee consider closely all information provided by the application with particular attention to the following elements:
· Courses taken in undergraduate school
· Science and non-science GPA
· Scores received on the Graduate Record Examination
· Responses to questions contained in the application references (from advisors, professors, and employers)
The admissions process focuses on identifying individuals with effective interpersonal skills capable of mastering the knowledge and skills required for responding to illness and injury in a reasoned manner.
Entering Class Profile
Based upon a review of demographic and academic information on applicants matriculated into the PA Program during 2009 entering class, the typical student was female, 26 years of age, from Texas, and had a bachelor's degree. The mean grade point average was 3.60 and the average GRE score was 1191 verbal and quantitative and 4.51 on the analytical. Potential applicants are encouraged to consider these data when preparing their applications for admission.
Preferences
Applicants seeking entry to the BCM PA Program are strongly encouraged to complete a medical terminology course prior to matriculation as the technical language of medicine can initially alter ones reading speed and rate of comprehension.
Applicants are likewise encouraged to develop the skills required to use basic computer hardware and software programs along with Internet search strategies as much of the curriculum is accessed via an online course management system.
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