Pre-Medical / Pre-Dental

As you prepare for the challenges of medical or dental school, you want to ensure you have 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 you build proficiency in the sciences while developing your key interdisciplinary skills. We’ll give you 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.

4-year plan for medical school

Program Requirements

Degree Options

No specific major is required, but all pre-medical fields will require a good foundation in the natural sciences, highly developed communication skills, and a solid background in the social sciences and humanities. Most students major in one of the sciences, usually biology, biochemistry, or chemistry. The entrance tests require excellent verbal reasoning skills, so a good background in English is also advised.

Careers

Dental Assistant, Dentist, Doctor, Nurse

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Student Testimonials

“The education that I received from the biology department was, in my opinion, unparalleled. The professors were passionate, phenomenal teachers, and had an open-door policy that helped students master any topic.” — Dr. Brian Chaffin ‘13

“I owe much of my success to the faculty’s personal investment in their students. Thanks to them, GC is known by medical residencies in the region as a powerhouse that produces numerous future physicians each year. I was proud to boast about my alma mater when interviewing for my residency in pediatrics!” — Madison Nation ‘12

Faculty & Contact

Connect with the faculty who teach and mentor Pre-Medical / Pre-Dental students.

David Fraley

Professor of Chemistry

B.S., Carson-Newman College
Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Eva Goellner

Assistant Professor of Biology

B.S., Carnegie Mellon University
Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine

Timothy Griffith

Dwight M. Lindsay Endowed Chair and Professor of Biology

B.A., Carleton College
Ph.D., Indiana University

Todd Hamilton

Professor of Chemistry

B.S., Cumberland College
M.S., University of California at Berkeley
Ph.D., Indiana University

Amanda Hughes

Associate Professor of Chemistry

B.S. Georgia Institute of Technology
Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin

Meghan Knapp

Professor of Chemistry

B.S., Vanderbilt University
Ph.D., Ohio State University

Rick Kopp

Professor of Biology

B.S., West Virginia Wesleyan College
M.A., University of Kentucky
Ph.D., Miami University, Ohio

Tracy Livingston

Professor of Biology/Associate Provost

B.S., B.A., University of Kentucky
Ph.D., University of Tennessee

William P. Stevens

Associate Professor of Biology

A.B., Harvard University
M.S., University of Chicago
Ph.D., University of Chicago

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