Welcome to all students considering the Health Professions as their career, whether it’s medicine, dentistry, veterinary medicine, nursing, physician assistant, physical therapy, optometry, podiatry, or pharmacy. The purpose of this page is to provide you with resources, information, and opportunities that will help you to enhance your preparation for your future career.

I encourage you to attend hands-on clinical workshops and other Health Professions related events offered on campus and via Zoom. Please feel free to make an appointment with me, the Health Professions Advisor and Program Coordinator, Mildred Rodríguez, PhD.

Please subscribe to the Health Professions Newsletter by emailing health.professions@wesleyan.edu in order to stay informed of various opportunities.

Explore the resources below, including our HP Career Outcomes, Summer & Gap Year and internship opportunities, featured courses, industry guides and career advice blogs, day-in-the-life videos, and alumni connections.

Health Professions Career Outcomes

Click below to view our Health Professions Career Outcomes data, as well as Career Outcomes data for other career pathways.

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As you are planning to work or volunteer with healthcare organizations, such as hospitals, community clinics, private practices, and/or other shadowing experiences, you may be required to complete a Memorandum of Understanding in order to participate.

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.

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Vault Industry Guides

Vault Guide to Health Care Management Jobs

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Vault Guide to Personal Care and Services Jobs

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Vault Guide to Nursing Jobs

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Vault Guide to Coaching and Sports Training

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Vault Guide to Health Care Provider Jobs

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Vault Guide to Pharmaceuticals and Biotechnology Jobs

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Featured Courses

AFAM 299 / STS 299 – 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,…

BIOL 106 – The Biology of Sex

This course is featured as a general education course within the Department of Biology. Serving to complement courses currently offered…

STS 262 – 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…

PSYC 259 – Discovering the Person

This course surveys major developments in psychology and psychiatry from 1860 to the present. Through readings and lectures, the course…

HIST 316 / STS 314 – History of Science, Medicine, and Technology in the Islamicate World

A survey of major turning points, debates, and socio-political context of the history of science, medicine, and technology in the…

COL 200 / 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…

BIOL 373 / NS&B 373 – Exploring the Brain-Body Interface: The Neuroscience of Basic Survival

Basic survival depends on the brain’s regulation of fundamental behaviors and physiological pathways, such as eating, drinking, breathing, digestion, cardiac…

MB&B 223 / 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…

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…

ECON 308 – Healthcare Economics

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

SOC 259 / STS 262 – 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…

CSPL 493 – Internship

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

COL 278 / SISP 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…

BIOL 357 / NS&B 357 / FGSS 357- Sex and Gender: From Synapse to Society

From movies like Think Like a Man to songs like “God Made Girls,” from federal policies to gender reveal parties,…

BIOL 173 / ENVS 260 – 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…

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…

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…

CSPL 314 / STS 315 / SOC 315 – 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)…

Alumni Spotlights

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