Health Professions Advising Programs

Learn about the programs managed or co-managed by the HPA Office at UM-Dearborn. Be part of advising, mentoring, professional schools visits, clinical research, or other programs while you are on your pre-Health Professions (HP) student journey.

HPA New Student Sessions (HPA NSS)

Want to get ready to be pre-med, pre-dent, pre-pharm, pre-optometry, pre-vet, pre-CSD, pre-PA, pre-PT, pre-OT, pre-O&P, pre-Genetic Counseling, pre-other HP track? 

Each Fall, Winter, and sometimes Spring, HPA NSS are offered to freshmen, transfer or other students at UM-Dearborn. Given in-person or by Zoom, the HPA NSS cover all of the basics you need to know to be a HP-track student at UM-Dearborn and future applicant to Health Professions graduate school.  Courses, extra-curriculars, clinical expectations, personal skills, "what's your mission?" and more!  Come ready to learn! 

Getting ready to apply to Health Professions (HP) Graduate School? Don't know how or where to start? Overwhelmed? Someone on campus can help you! Free of charge!

The HPA Application Sessions are only for upper level students (juniors, seniors, and alumni) by years only, not by credits. Given by the HPA Director each year, the HPA Application Sessions start in January and are five sessions going through July. They cover topics from Big Picture Timeline, Mission Statements, Mission Maps, Personal Statements, Experiences/Work Activities as well as all of the other various essays of the application.  Along with the letters of evaluation and resumes, the application sessions cover the administrative components/requirements of the application. The HPA Application Sessions cover everything you ever wanted to know about the application process and more! They happen each year and the e-mail invitation to them occurs in mid to late November to upper-level students and alumni.  No RSVP is required but attendance is expected if you want to mock interview with the HPA Director in preparation for interviews. 

The University of Michigan-Dearborn, in partnership with Madonna University and Trinity Health, created and manages the Emergency Medicine Research Associate Program (EMRAP) since 2015-16. 

Each year, through a very competitive application process, 8-10 UM-Dearborn upperclass pre-Health Professions students participate in the program.  Currently 10 UM-Dearborn pre-Med track or pre-physician assistant track students are EMRAP associates.

The HPA Office in partnership with Career Services creates and implements the HP Schools Fair for all UM-Dearborn pre-Health Professions track students. 

Held almost every year in-person from 2015-2023, various HP Graduate Schools from the US, come to UM-Dearborn to recruit and introduce themselves to students. Some years we had as many as 32 schools with over 100 student attendees. The HP Schools Fair is a great opportunity for our students to meet HP Graduate School admission officers and begin their relationships with the HP schools. 

Starting in 2023, the annual HP Schools Fair will be held every other year due to financial and attendance reasons. Therefore, the next HP Schools Information Fair will be in Spring (March) 2025. 

In 2015, UM-Dearborn alumni, Mariam Ayyash, MD '19 UMMS, '13 B.S., and Zeinab Rizk, MD, '17 UMMS, '13 B.S., founded the UM-Dearborn Pre-Med Alumni Mentoring Program, in partnership with the HPA Office, and the Office Alumni Engagement. Read more about this amazing program in the Spring 2019 Legacy.

UM-Dearborn pre-med, pre-PA and pre-podiatry track students participate in this program through an annual competitive application process each fall semester. Currently, 49 pre-med track students are partnered with 36 UM-Dearborn alumni who are in medical schools in the state of Michigan or the mid-west. Sophomores and Junior pre-meds, look in your UMICH emails at the start of each school year for your application to this program! 

Do you want to be on the frontline of healthcare? As a future pharmacist, you're part of the community either as a retail pharmacist, or in the hospital, research lab, industry or academia. We're excited to share about the Pharmacy Preferred Admission Program the University of Michigan-Dearborn has with the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor College of Pharmacy (UM-COP).

Up to ten (10) UM-Dearborn students, either high school student admitted to UM-Dearborn or first year UM-Dearborn student, will be granted conditional assurance of admission annually to UM-COP. These students will earn their bachelor's degree from UM-Dearborn. Together with Health Professions Advising team, the students will work on which courses to take to best prepare academically and co-curriculars to work on for the PharmD program at UM-COP. If they meet the PharmD admission requirements, these students will have reserved seats in the UM-COP's PharmD program, setting them on the course for a successful career in the pharmacy field. If you have questions, please meet with our HPA Director.

Do you have college years of service working with underserved communities? If you're truly committed to serving the medically underserved locally (Michigan) and globally as a physician, then Michigan State University (MSU) College of Human Medicine (CHM), the allopathic (MD) medical school, may be for you! See MSU CHM Admissions. 

UM-Dearborn formed a partnership with MSU CHM Early Assurance Program (EAP). You can read more about the partnership. This isn't an early decision program. Rather, if MSU CHM is your first-choice medical school and your mission is their mission, then the MSU CHM EAP is something you may want to pursue.

Learn more when MSU CHM visits campus each fall to share information about their medical school (CHM) and the EAP. Set up an appointment with the HPA Director to find out if the EAP is your pathway and how to prepare your EAP application because the application cycle is not the same as the typical cycle. Please note: The UM-Dearborn MSU CHM EAP is not for UM-Dearborn alumni, or those seeking an early-decision program, or those already in the current MD or DO application cycle. 

Currently enrolled UM-Dearborn students or alumni:

Email is best way to reach any member of the HPA Team.

• The HPA Team works in the HPA Office in START on M-F, 8 am - 5 pm with HPA appointments held 9 am - 4 pm, M-F. 
• HPA Director conducts virtual and in-person appointments, but you must request which one in your HPA Appointment request. 
• Request an appointment by the HPA Office email or through the START front desk to meet with any member of the HPA Team.

Please use and follow the HPA appointment Policy and Instructions sent to you after your HPA New Student Session (HPA NSS) or in HP Gen Info Google Classroom, Topic 1, item 1. 

Prospective new students: high school or transfer students

• Please contact Office of Undergraduate Admissions.