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Biomedical Professions Committee Evaluation

To health professional schools, the most important recommendation is your Biomedical Professions Committee evaluation. All medical and dental schools prefer the committee letter to a packet of individual letters. An NAU composite committee evaluation is the result of your interviews with three NAU faculty in the spring of your junior year or occasionally the fall of your senior year. In order to be interviewed by the Biomedical Professions Committee, you must be an NAU student or alumnae, and you must register with the Office of Biomedical Professions, BS 154.

During a meeting with Chris Maxka, Director of the Office of Biomedical Professions, you will choose the three faculty members of your committee, one of whom will be your faculty advisor. You then contact each faculty for an individual interview.

The interviewers will ask questions about your background, your academic record and your clinical experience in an effort to determine your motivation and preparation for medical (or other) school.

You may be asked questions about medical ethics, national health care, or HMOs. Your interviewers are asking themselves: "Would I go to this person for my doctor (dentist, optometrist)"?

The two faculty send their comments to your advisor, who will write a composite evaluation and will forward this "committee letter" to the Office of Biomedical Professions for your file.