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Health Professions Advising

Welcome to Health Professions Advising

The Health Professions Advisor (HPA) provides support to students and alumni pursing graduate education and careers in the health fields (e.g., medical and dental school). HPA coordinates closely with the Career Development Office (CDO) and the Graduate School Advisor (GSA) to provide students, alumni, and academic advisors with support and resources.

Medical, Dental, and Veterinary School Applicants
Summer Clinical Preceptorship
HPA Events

Please review the Health Professions Advising Handbook for 2024-2025. It offers information on career options, what to consider when choosing a career, how to schedule courses at SUA to complete prerequisite coursework, enrichment opportunities, and what steps students must take to be successful candidates when they decide to apply to medical and dental schools.

View 2024-2025 HPA Handbook 

If you would like to post an internship, research position, or job to the Soka pre-health distribution list (including current students and alumni), please submit your posting to SUA Health Professions Advising at jmills@soka.edu.

HPA Offerings

Jacqueline Mills smiles and works with students on SUA's campus

Applying for Medical or Dental School

Explore what steps students must take to be successful candidates when they decide to apply to medical and dental schools.

Two students wearing teal scrubs review imaging during their neurosurgery preceptorship in Summer 2023.

Summer Clinical Preceptorship

Students spend the summer rotating in the neurosurgery operating room, clinic, and neuroanatomy research laboratory gaining exposure to direct patient care and contributing to the department’s research.

Kids take part in a youth health advocacy program at SUA.

SUA-ISSAC Youth Health Advocacy Internship

SUA’s Career Development Office and Health Professions Advising are partnering with the International School for Science and Culture (ISSAC) in Costa Mesa on a collaborative youth health advocacy program and corresponding SUA student internship.

Dr. Vernard S. Fennell, MD MSc speaks to students during the HPA speaker series

HPA Events

Health Professions Advising at SUA frequently hosts clinicians, researchers, and industry specialists, and public health practitioners to give talks on their career path, research/specialty, and other domains of their work. We greatly appreciate the contributions these speakers, especially as they have provided insights into how SUA students and graduates can use their humanistic and multidisciplinary education in health careers.

Two dark-haired female students wearing black gloves practice suture techniques

Clinical Skills Lab

The Clinical Skills Lab offers our undergraduate students the opportunities to learn and practice hands-on clinical skills often not taught until medical school clerkship years. These skills include taking a patient history, basic physical exam, suturing, surgical knot-tying, and laparoscopic surgical simulation. The aim of the lab is to strengthen our students’ clinical skills, empower them beyond academic classroom opportunities, and increase health literacy across our campus by engaging the broader community through outreach events.

View Upcoming Events 

Health Professions Advisor

Dr. Jacqueline M. Mills, MD, MPP '08

Visiting Assistant Professor of General Education, Global Health, and Health Professions Advisor
Headshot of Jacqueline Mills
jmills@soka.edu
P:
949-269-5568