Pre-Optometry Post-Baccalaureate Program
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Pre-Optometry Post-Baccalaureate Program
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Program Description
Students with an eye toward a career in optometry will thrive with an education from 澳门六合开奖 thanks to a thorough foundation built in the basic sciences, personal support throughout the application timeline and access to admission representatives and practicing alumni in the optometry field.
Rockhurst鈥檚 pre-optometry program is strengthened by an active group of students and leadership opportunities in health-related student organizations. In addition, the Pre-Health committee, comprised of the Pre-Health directors and faculty on our Kansas City, Missouri, campus, provides pre-optometry learners with a genuine interview experience and assessment process, including comprehensive feedback on application materials and personal statements.
Program Cost
This program is charged the Post-Baccalaureate Pre-Health Certificate rate of $600 per credit hour.
Prospective Students
Learning Outcomes
鈥淒octors of Optometry are the primary health care professionals for the eyes. Optometrists examine, diagnose, treat听and manage diseases, injuries听and disorders of the visual system, the eye听and associated structures as well as identify related systemic conditions affecting the eye.鈥澨
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Course Map
Pre-optometry students work with their Pre-Health advisors to develop courses that prepare听them for their chosen optometry programs.
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Typical听course requirements听for pre-optometry include:
- General Chemistry I and II (8 hours)
- General Biology I and II (8 hours)
- Immunology (4 hours)
- Microbiology (4 hours)
- Human Anatomy and Physiology I and II (8 hours)
- Organic Chemistry (8 hours)
- Biochemistry (3 hours)
- Physics I and II (8 hours)
- Mathematics (3-4 hours)
- Psychology (3 hours)
- Sociology (3 hours)听 听 听听
Current Students
Experiences
- Optics coursework available听in the Physics of Medicine program
- Alumni medical networks in Kansas City and St. Louis, Missouri, and Omaha, Nebraska, to create shadowing opportunities
- Pre-Health Blackboard page to announce upcoming opportunities for听research, volunteering and shadowing听
- Annual meetings with regional and local admissions representatives听from professional health programs
- Class sizes less than 48 and instructed by full-time faculty
- Open-door access to professors
- Personalized advising
- Tutoring and supplemental instruction at no cost
- Kaplan Institutional Partnership with half-price MCAT, DAT, OAT, PCAT and GRE courses
- In the past five years, 77% of students placed in听health care professional programs
Outcomes
"My wish for each student at Rockhurst is to find the career they were made for. Prayer during a crossroads in my junior year led me to pursue optometry. I feel blessed to be a vision health care provider 鈥斕齛nd am constantly in awe of the amazing gift of sight."
鈥撎齊emi Miljavac
Optometrist at Family Vision Center
University of Missouri-St. Louis College of Optometry 2011
B.S. in Biology 2005