Pre-Medicine Academic Enhancer Programs

The Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology of the GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences offers two pre-medicine academic enhancer programs for candidates interested in applying to medical schools or biomedical sciences Ph.D. programs. Both programs are designed to enhance competitiveness of applications to medical school or to transition to an advanced graduate degree in the biomedical sciences.

Based on their level of readiness for admission in a health professional school, applicants apply to either:

• the Graduate Certificate in Anatomical and Translational Sciences (GCATS), a one-year pre-med program with a total of 19 credit hours
• the Master of Science in Anatomical and Translational Sciences (M-ATS), a two-year pre-med special Master’s program with a total of 39 credit hours

Both academic enhancer programs have a clinically oriented curriculum with a problem-based learning approach that focuses on basic medical sciences taught to first-year medical students. Since the GCATS program constitutes the first year of the M-ATS curriculum, GCATS students with a minimum GPA of 3.0 can submit an application to transfer their 19 credits from GCATS to the M-ATS program.

An MCAT preparatory course is offered in both pre-med programs.

Each program has its own deadline and application process, as detailed on their web pages. All inquiries about the programs should be sent to gcatsmats@gwu.edu.

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