Our Pre-Medical / Pre-Dental program is designed to prepare students for the challenges of medical or dental school, ensuring the strongest possible foundation for success in health-related fields. With small class sizes, personal mentoring, research opportunities, and caring faculty, Georgetown College will help students build proficiency in the sciences while developing your key interdisciplinary skills. We’ll give students a firm scientific foundation, but we’ll also help you cultivate the compassion and human understanding essential to the healthcare professions.
We offer students research opportunities outside the classroom, working with our faculty or funded to work with researchers at institutions like Stanford and NIH. We have a strong record of preparing students for health careers, with over 90% acceptance to medical school after completing the application process, including interviews. Our graduates are world-class medical researchers, surgeons, and professors, serving as primary care physicians, pediatricians, dentists, and allied health professionals.
FOUR-YEAR PLAN FOR MEDICAL SCHOOL
| Freshman Year Fall Semester Courses | HOURS |
| BIO 111 – Principles of Biology | 4 |
| CHE 111 – General Chemistry I | 3 |
| CHE 111L – General Chemistry I Lab | 1 |
| ENG 111 – English Composition I | 3 |
| FDN 111 – Being Human | 3 |
| TOTAL | 14 |
| Freshman Year Spring Semester Courses | Hours |
| BIO 212 – Cell and Molecular Biology | 4 |
| CHE 112 – General Chemistry II | 3 |
| CHE 113 – General Chemistry II Lab | 1 |
| ENG 112 – English Composition II | 3 |
| FDN 112 (elective) | 3 |
| TOTAL | 14 |
| Sophomore Year Fall Semester Courses | HOURS |
| BIO 214 – Organismal Diversity | 4 |
| CHE 201 – Organic Chemistry I | 3 |
| CHE 202 – Organic Chemistry I Lab | 1 |
| MAT 111 – Statistics | 3 |
| Language 1 | 3 |
| KHS 100 – Lifetime Fitness | 1 |
| TOTAL | 15 |
| Sophomore Year Spring Semester Courses | HOURS |
| CHE 309 – Organic Chemistry II | 3 |
| CHE 310 – Organic Chemistry II Lab | 1 |
| AOI 1 (Communications) | 3 |
| C flag course | 3 |
| Language 2 | 3 |
| AOI 5 | 3 |
| TOTAL | 16 |
| Junior Year Fall Semester Courses | HOURS |
| BIO 402 (W flag) – Seminar I | 2 |
| BIO 305 – Human Physiology I | 3 |
| BIO 305L – Human Physiology I Lab | 1 |
| CHE 341 – Biochemistry | 3 |
| PHY 211 – Physics I with lab | 4 |
| AOI 2 (Psychology or Sociology) | 3 |
| TOTAL | 16 |
| Junior Year Spring Semester Courses | HOURS |
| BIO 306 – Human Physiology II | 3 |
| BIO 306L – Human Physiology II Lab | 1 |
| CHE 342/343 – Biochemistry Lab | 1 |
| PHY 212 – Physics II with lab | 4 |
| AOI 3 | 3 |
| AOI 4 (Pschology or Sociology) | 3 |
| TOTAL | 15 |
| Senior Year Fall Semester Courses | HOURS |
| BIO 311 – Microbiology | 4 |
| BIO 335 – Genetics and Molecular Biology | 4 |
| AOI 5 | 3 |
| AOI 6 | 3 |
| AOI 7 | 3 |
| TOTAL | 17 |
| Senior Year Spring Semester Courses | HOURS |
| BIO 337 – Vertebrate Anatomy | 4 |
| BIO 421/423 – Developmental or Neurobiology | 3 |
| AOI 8 | 3 |
| AOI 9 | 3 |
| C flag course | 3 |
| TOTAL | 16 |
| Bold courses must be taken during the designated semesters. Unshaded courses may be moved to different semesters. |
| RECOMMENDED ELECTIVES BIO 305+L (4) – Human Physiology I and Lab BIO 306+L (4) – Human Physiology II and Lab BIO 311 (4) – General Microbiology BIO 312 (4) – Immunology and Pathogenesis BIO 325 (4) – Vertebrate Anatomy and Embryology BIO 337 (4) – Cell Biology BIO 421 (3) – Developmental Biology BIO 423 (3) – Neurobiology CHE 305 (4) – Analytical Chemistry CHE 317+L (4) – Forensic Chemistry and Lab CHE 319 (1) – Nuclear Chemistry and Electrochemistry Lab CHE 327 (3) – Medicinal Chemistry CHE 329 (1) – Medicinal and Advanced Organic Chemistry Labs |
| RECOMMENDED AOI COURSES AOI 1 ART 119 – Intro to 3 Dimensional Design and Ceramics THE 225 – Acting AOI 2 PHI 151 – Ethics PHI 325 – Business Ethics PHI 345 – Environmental Philosophy and Ethics PHI 385 – Medical Ethics AOI 3 COMM 101 – Principles of Communication COMM 200 – Personal and Interpersonal Communication COMM 312 – Group Dynamics COMM 323 – Conflict Management COMM 400 – Organizational Communication ECO 223 – Principles of Microeconomics PSY 111 – General Psychology PSY 163 – Positive Psychology SOC 111 – Principles of Sociology |
| MEDICAL SCHOOL APPLICATION, MCAT, AND MEDICAL LIAISON COMMITTEE Most medical schools require the MCAT exam. Take the MCAT at the end of your junior year, after completing chemistry, physics, psychology, sociology, and at least one semester of physiology. Many students take only 12 hours during that semester in order to adequately prepare for the MCAT The application window for AAMC (aamc.org) typically opens in May Every student applying to medical school is expected to have a committee letter of recommendation. The Medical Liaison Committee conducts interviews in the spring. |
