*** SPRING 2012 Premedical Committee Interview/Evaluation Process ***
• Applicants to Allopathic (M.D.) and Osteopathic (D.O.) Medical School
The Whitman College Premedical Advisory Committee (PMAC) helps facilitate your applications to MD and DO medical schools by offering an interview, a comprehensive Committee letter of evaluation, as well as collection of individual evaluations and submission of your letter of evaluation packet.
** If you are a Whitman graduate from 2011 or earlier and planning to submit an application in Summer 2012, OR
** If you are a Senior graduating and leaving campus in May 2012 (even if you are NOT planning on applying in Summer 2012), OR
** If you are a Junior (May 2013 grad) and planning to submit an application in Summer 2012….
…. The PMAC will be initiating a Spring (February-May) interview and evaluation process in 2012. This change in timing is an attempt to better assist students who apply after graduation AND to facilitate the timely submission of letters for the accelerated application process of many schools which are beginning evaluation of applicants in the summer.
If you would like to schedule a Spring 2012 interview, you must contact Jim Russo by December 3, 2011 (russo@whitman.edu or 509 527-5228)
Materials for the interview
We will ask you to compile and submit a dossier of materials for the PMAC to review. Most of these materials will also be included in your primary MD (AMCAS) and DO (AACOMAS) applications that you will complete in the summer. The following items must be submitted two weeks before your scheduled interview.
The first four items below can be compiled into a single electronic file (Word or a pdf file)
A) Identifying information
B) Work/Activities
C) Personal comments
D) Autobiographical statement
The next two items can be submitted as paper copies or as a scanned (pdf) file
E) Transcripts
F) MCAT scores
The final item will be solicited by you and submitted to the Committee on your behalf
G) Individual letters of evaluation
Download a detailed guidline for the materials and interview:
Spring 2012 Premed committee interview & evaluation
Letters of evaluation are an essential and critical component of the application process.
The applicant fills out and signs the top section and provides a copy to each evaluator. The evaluator will return the evaluation to Jim Russo, Health Professions Advisor.
Download a copy of the evaluation form here Letter of Eval Form 2011-12
For most allopathic schools, you first complete the primary centralized application (AMCAS), sponsored by the American Association of Medical Colleges (AAMC)
http://www.aamc.org/students/amcas/
For osteopathic schools, you first complete the primary centralized application (AACOMAS), sponsored by the American Association of Colleges of Osteopathic Medicine (AACOM)
https://aacomas.aacom.org/
• Application to Dental Schools
55 dental schools participate in the common application administered by the American Dental Education Association
https://portal.aadsasweb.org/
• Application to Pharmacy Schools
Pharmacy schools participate in the common application (PharmCAS) administered by the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacies
http://www.pharmcas.org/
• Application to Physician Assistant Schools
Physician Assistant Schools participate in the common application (CASPA) administered by the Physician Assistant Education Association
https://portal.caspaonline.org/
• Application to Schools of Nursing
Please see Jim Russo for applications to BSN or MSN nursing programs.
Starting in Spring 2010, a centralized application service is starting for an initial group of nursing schools.
As of Summer 2010, none of the schools in OR or WA were listed as participants in NursingCAS for Fall 2010 applications.
• Application to Schools of Public Health
30 Schools of Public Health participate in the common application (SOPHAS) administered by the American Association of Schools of Public Health
http://www.sophas.org/
• Application to Schools of Veterinary Medicine
32 Veterinary Medical Colleges participate in the common application (VMCAS) administered by the Association of American Veterinary Medical Colleges
http://www.aavmc.org/vmcas/vmcas.htm
Please contact Jim Russo, Health Professions Advisor
(russo@whitman.edu; (509) 527-5228; Science 336)
for more information on the application process.
