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Health Professions

Welcome to the Health Professions Career Community! Find resources and opportunities to launch your career and learn about the many different areas students can pursue in the field. Browse this Community for career advice blogs, available career opportunities, and explore resources to help you build your career and beyond.

Please view our Suggested Reading List for Pre-Health Enrichment as a resource for literary engagement with health-related topics such as ethics and values in medicine, culture and medicine, and the healthcare system.

Health Professions Career Outcomes

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Recent breakthroughs in Alzheimer’s research provide hope for patients

Recent breakthroughs in Alzheimer’s research provide hope for patients was originally published on aamc.org/news
While there is no cure, researchers say a newly approved drug, advanced testing, and increasing knowledge about the disease may improve patients’ lives.

Lori Weiss, 65, …
By Bridget Balch
Bridget Balch
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Why eliminating race-conscious admissions will hurt medical school students

Why eliminating race-conscious admissions will hurt medical school students was originally published on aamc.org/news
The U.S. Supreme Court could erase years of progress in improving the diversity of the medical student population. That has implications not just for the future …
By Michael Walls, DO, MPH et. al
Michael Walls, DO, MPH et. al Why eliminating race-conscious admissions will hurt medical school students
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APHA-led program working to build a more diverse health workforce

APHA-led program working to build a more diverse workforce was originally published at publichealthnewswire.org, by .

Public health students and young professionals from underrepresented backgrounds are getting a career boost and helping to diversify the public health workforce at …

By Kayla Hup
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Vault Guide to Health Care Management Jobs

The Vault Guides to Jobs series provides essential information about key careers and industries, with an emphasis on preparing for …

Vault Guide to Personal Care and Services Jobs

The Vault Guides to Jobs series provides essential information about key careers and industries, with an emphasis on preparing for …

Vault Guide to Nursing Jobs

The Vault Guides to Jobs series provides essential information about key careers and industries, with an emphasis on preparing for …

Vault Guide to Coaching and Sports Training

The Vault Guides to Jobs series provides essential information about key careers and industries, with an emphasis on preparing for …

Vault Guide to Health Care Provider Jobs

The Vault Guides to Jobs series provides essential information about key careers and industries, with an emphasis on preparing for …

Vault Guide to Pharmaceuticals and Biotechnology Jobs

The Vault Guides to Jobs series provides essential information about key careers and industries, with an emphasis on preparing for …

Featured Courses

ECON 308 – Healthcare Economics

In this course, we examine the United States healthcare system in some detail, with some attention to useful international comparisons.…

SISP 315 / SOC 315 / CSPL 314 – The Health of Communities

Our focus will be on understanding the role of social factors (e.g., income, work environment, social cohesion, food, transportation systems)…

CSPL 224 – Public Health, Migration, and Human Rights

How do human rights principles apply to the public health challenges faced by migrant populations? What is the situation of…

PSYC 361 – The Psychology of Prejudice and Discrimination

This seminar offers a social psychological analysis of different forms of prejudice and discrimination, including racism, sexism, anti-Semitism, heterosexism, and…

BIOL 173 – Global Change and Infectious Disease

This course will cover how human demands upon the environment have come back to bite us through infectious diseases. The…

ENGL 200 – The Narratives of Illness and Recovery

This course provides a detailed examination of primarily first-person accounts of illness and recovery. The focus will be on narratives…

COL 278 – Medicine: An Artful Science or Scientific Art? Physician Writers Since 1900

In this seminar we will read physician authors since 1900 who have bridged the divide between the sciences, the social…

CSPL 493: Internship

This course may be repeated for credit. Wesleyan has established a credit/uncredit internship course, CSPL 493, for students to receive…

SOC 259 – Cultural Studies of Health

Nothing is more fundamental to the human condition than our most basic right–the right to healthy life. Tragically, this right…

AFAM 229 – Medicine and Healing in the Black Atlantic

This course examines the ways in which Black people have conceived of health, healing, and the body since 1500. Readings,…

PSYC 347 – Science of Suicide Risk & Prevention

This course will explore the science of suicide research, prevention, and intervention. Topics will include terminology, epidemiology, historical and contemporary…

BIOL 223 – The Molecular Basis of Cancer

Cancer is a group of diseases characterized by unregulated cell growth and tissue invasion. This course will focus on the…

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Middletown, CT 06459

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Tuesday 9:00 am - 5:00 pm
Wednesday 9:00 am - 5:00 pm
Thursday 9:00 am - 5:00 pm
Friday 9:00 am - 5:00 pm