Welcome to UW-Madison! We are excited for you to begin an exciting phase of life and are eager to work with you. Dr. Michael Hill is our first-year pre-health student specialist. He facilitates our pre-health orientation (“Preparing for Professional Programs in Health Care”). This is your first step to all things pre-health, and we ask that all first-year students complete this orientation before meeting with a pre-health advisor in an appointment after your first year on campus. Dr. Hill also offers drop-in advising for first-year students every Friday during fall and spring semesters (“First Year Fridays”) and runs four-year planning workshops for first-year students. And as a first-year student, you also have access to pre-health advisors five days a week (Monday-Friday) via email at questions@prehealth.wisc.edu.
Please make use of all these first-year student resources:
- Preparing for Professional Programs in Health Care (sign up here)
- First-Year Fridays every Friday during fall and spring semesters (9-12 at CPHA, Suite 205 in the Middleton Building)
- Four-Year Planning Workshops (look for announcements in the CPHA newsletter)
- Quick question? Please email us at questions@prehealth.wisc.edu!
And please make an appointment to have a longer conversation with a CPHA advisor after your first year on campus!
If you are an alum, a second-year, third-year, fourth-year, fifth-year and or transfer student, please make an appointment to talk with us about your interests and plans:
What to include in your appointment note:
- Your pre-health interest (e.g. pre-PT, pre-OT, pre-vet, pre-med, pre-PA)
- What you want to talk about (e.g. courses, volunteering, research, shadowing, applying to a health professions program)
We recommend:
- 30-minute appointments for quicker questions (i.e. if you want to talk about one of the above topics)
- 60-minute appointments if you want to talk about more than one of the above topics or applying to a health professions program.
If you are an alum and cannot find an appointment at a time you are free to meet, please call our office (608.263.6614) or email us (questions@prehealth.wisc.edu) and we will find a time for you.
The summer before you plan to apply is a great time for a first application-planning appointment. If you begin this conversation before then, great. If you wait until the semester (or even a week) before you apply, no problem. Come and talk with us. We will support your planning and preparation wherever you are at in the process.
If you are an applicant and cannot find an appointment at a time you are free to meet, please call our office (608.263.6614) or email us (questions@prehealth.wisc.edu) and we will find a time for you.
We recommend 60-minute appointments for most application conversations.
- Application planning and timing — We will review your experiences, courses, other admissions requirements, and discuss the optimal timing of your application.
- Personal statements — Please send your personal statement to your advisor 24 hours before you meet. We will review up to two drafts of each personal statement.
- Secondary essays — Please send your essays to your advisor 24 hours before you meet (30-minute appointments for 1 or 2 essays, 60-minute appointments for 3 or 4 essays). We will review up to 4 essays in an appointment.
- Mock interviews — In the appointment note, please tell us the interview format (traditional/MMI) you want to practice and the school(s) where you will be interviewing.
Summer is application season, and CPHA is here to help. We offer special drop-ins for applicants throughout the summer. Appointments are available to everyone who has completed your first year of coursework at UW-Madison, as well as all to applicants, alumni and transfer students.
Applicant Drop Ins (CPHA offices in the Middleton Bldg)
- Tuesdays 9-12, 1-3 pm
- Wednesdays 1-3 pm
If you are an applicant and cannot find an appointment at a time you are free to meet, please call our office (608.263.6614) or email us (questions@prehealth.wisc.edu) and we will find a time for you.
Appointments
Special Note: Students who will begin your first year in September 2018, you have First-Year Fridays (first-year student drop-in advising) to look forward to! These first-year student drop-ins will begin again when classes start in September! (9-12 every Friday)
Drop-In Advising happens at the Center for Pre-Health Advising. Please find us in Suite 205 of the Middleton Building.
Drop-In Advising during the Summer:
- Summer is application season. For this reason, we dedicate drop-in advising to applicants in the summer.
- Tuesdays, 9-12, 1-3
- Wednesdays, 1-3
Drop-In Advising during Fall and Spring semesters:
- Second-year, third-year, fourth-year, fifth-year, and transfer students
- Tuesdays, 1-3:30
- Wednesdays, 1-3:30
- First-year students: Fridays, 9-12