:: Return to main

PRE-MEDICAL PHILOSOPHY
        We believe that God calls His people to specific areas of service in his Kingdom and we have seen God faithfully use Covenant to bring together gifts, desires and opportunities in students’ lives that He uses to call them to work as physicians. The consideration of a medical calling presents a wide range of challenges. Not only is access to medical training highly competitive, but inappropriate social and cultural motivations for pursuing medicine are especially seductive and common. Media-hyped glamour images of hero-physicians, family expectations for high achieving students, individual expectations of status and material wealth, or even the mythic status of a “missionary-doctor” in the churches can easily distort the basic issue of discerning and faithfully responding to God’s calling in this area. At Covenant the relationship between the premedical advisor and premedical students is highly personalized and involves extensive mentoring across the spectrum of personal, spiritual and academic issues that arise over the course of premedical undergraduate studies. Some areas of special focus in premedical advising: discussions concerning student motivations, discernment concerning a student’s strengths and weaknesses, exploration of viable alternatives to medical studies, the choice of a major or majors (a double major is a good option for some students), the choice of specific coursework, relevant work/volunteer experiences, preparation for the Medical College Admissions Test and managing the medical college admissions process.

:: Return to main