Anatomy Certification Program
(a post-baccalaureate program to enhance medical school admission credentials)
What is the Anatomy Certification Program? |
The Structural and Cellular Biology Department conducts a course of study for qualified school applicants to strengthen their credentials for admission to medical school. The Anatomy Certification Program is not a degree granting program. While completion of the course of study will not guarantee admission to medical school, students will be able to demonstrate academic proficiency in direct relationship to current first year medical students at Tulane. |
What is the purpose of ACP? |
The purpose of this program is to identify excellent candidates for medical school from the applicant pool who have been wait-listed but have not gained medical school admission. The program gives wait-listed students an opportunity to prove that they can do well in medical school by essentially taking the first semester’s curriculum with our first year medical students. Upon the students request we will then send letters, comparing the ACP student’s grades to the medical school class average. By sending the letters students can prove without doubt their ability to perform in medical school academics. |
What course work is included in the program? |
Students will take the anatomical courses (Human Gross & Developmental Anatomy and Human Histology) with the entering first-year medical students. Two other courses are taught in the fall semester (Foundations in Medicine and Cell & Molecular Biology), which the ACP students will not participate. In the spring semester, students may elect to take the medical student course in Neuroscience at no additional charge. |
How are ACP students evaluated? |
Students are treated identically to the medical students: they will take classes, laboratories, and exams with them. They are in no way segregated. They are integrated into the student body. Grades are issued numerically and compared to the numerical average of the first year class. In this way, admissions committees of medical schools can make direct comparisons of the ACP student’s performance to that of Tulane’s first year medical student class. |
What are the qualifications for the program? |
The sole criterion for applying is that you MUST be wait-listed to an accredited U.S. medical school. NO EXCEPTIONS |
How is the admissions process conducted? |
All applications must be received by the deadline. All applications are reviewed by the ACP admissions committee and placed into one of the following categories: Accepted, Wait-list or Non-acceptance. The application fee is $75. |
What is the success rate of the program? |
To date, over 90% of the students who have completed the program have been accepted to an accredited U.S. medical school. The great majority of these will join the next year’s class at Tulane School of Medicine. Within the last five years approximately 94% of the ACP students were accepted to Tulane. |
How long has this program been in existence? |
The Program is now entering its 12th year. |
What is the cost of the program? |
Tuition is $12,500 for 2008-2009 academic year. |
When does the program begin? |
Classes commence early June, starting with Histology and the fall semester concludes in mid-December taking Human Gross & Developmental Anatomy. If students elect to take the Neuroscience course during the Spring semester, the course will begin in the first week of January, 2009, and will conclude in mid-May. The application deadline is April 11, 2008; acceptances will be mailed by May 9, 2008. |
| How do I obtain information and/or apply for the program? |
Contact: Shannon Dawsey, Senior Program Coordinator |