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This article appears in the most recent issue<\/a> of Transylvania\u2019s Third & Broadway magazine.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Transylvania University has a storied history of training future physicians, going all the way back to the 18th century.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In fact …<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was home to the first medical school in the \u201cWest,\u201d one that rivaled Harvard for a bit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was home to the first medical fraternity of its kind, Kappa Lambda of Hippocrates, a group that led to the founding of the American Medical Association.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Although Transylvania’s Medical Department closed 160 years ago, the tradition carries on \u2014 more than 90 percent of current students recommended to med school are accepted, and there are enough recent grads entering them this fall to pretty much fill a yearbook page with white coat pics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But beyond preparing students to be excellent physicians, the school encourages those going into health care, in whatever role, to pursue their own path \u2014 to discover how they can best use their interests and talents to help keep the rest of us well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When Robin Rains Prichard \u201989 enrolled at Transylvania, she planned to become a doctor. But a few courses in, she decided her calling was pharmacy. Her career path has taken a different turn of late \u2014 she\u2019s the university\u2019s pre-health adviser (when she\u2019s not advising President Brien Lewis on the pandemic). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thanks to her and other staff and faculty, Pioneers going into the field receive the kind of support undergraduates often don\u2019t get at other schools. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

We\u2019re talking about a large chunk of the overall student population; around a quarter of them are interested in some kind of pre-health field. Another example of its popularity is when Prichard organized a Pre-Health Club reception with former president John N. Williams, a dentist, and the guest list swelled to more than 200 students. (Williams also mentored Pioneers on things like taking the dental school exam.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Robin Rains Prichard \u201989<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Another time, Williams accompanied students on a field trip to Mission Health Lexington for the school\u2019s annual Pre-Health Week. Trips to the Monroe Moosnick Medical and Science Museum also are on tap that week, giving students a chance to survey the sundry apparatuses and curiosities collected by the defunct Medical Department. (Prichard says a student told her she was grateful for the tour because she was worried a med school interviewer might bring up the museum.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a Pre-Health Week field trip to a clinic for an underserved population that helped spark a desire in Leah Shephard \u201921 to practice in her rural Ohio hometown after graduating from Indiana University School of Medicine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While Shephard is learning to be a physician \u2014 at an IU branch on Indiana State\u2019s campus in Terre Haute \u2014 she plans to put her Spanish major to good use, helping the area\u2019s large Spanish-speaking population get the care they need (there aren\u2019t a lot of interpreters around). \u201cThat will be beneficial regardless of where I end up,\u201d she says of knowing the language.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Prichard, in fact, stresses how students are encouraged to major in anything they want, even if they’re eying med school (though Shephard doubled up with biochem).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While Shephard was in Lexington, she took advantage of the many local opportunities to get experience while serving others, including volunteering at the American Cancer Society\u2019s Hope Lodge. She also mentored Transy students who weren\u2019t as far along by assisting them with things like class scheduling and preparing for the Medical College Admission Test. She plans to continue working with pre-med undergrads, this time those at ISU.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Shephard has benefited from the support of others as well. Staff in Transylvania\u2019s Center for Academic and Professional Enrichment and the Writing Center, as well as faculty, helped her write a personal statement and gave her practice interviews for medical school (the Pre-Health Committee has mock interviews with students, too). \u201cI talked to people at other universities \u2014 they really didn’t have the guidance that I did,\u201d Shephard says. \u201cI always felt like I had somebody in my corner.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s this kind of support that has helped Megan Wasson \u201918 achieve some impressive things lately. \u201cCollectively, this network of friends and mentors ensured that I had the necessary tools, experience and confidence to dream big,\u201d she says. \u201cIn just over three years since graduating from Transylvania, I have interned at the American Cancer Society, Pure Water for the World, Emory School of Medicine and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. I earned a master\u2019s degree at one of the top public health schools in the country and a highly competitive position as a first-year medical student at Emory University.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While Wasson\u2019s network provided support for her to follow her dreams, her liberal arts background has given her context. \u201cThe ultimate pursuit of a liberal arts student is to better understand what it means to be human,\u201d Wasson says. \u201cPhysicians grapple with this very same question on a daily basis in the course of attending to the physical and psychological needs of their patients.\u201d Health care providers steeped in the liberal arts communicate well, and they \u201cput the patient at the center of patient care.\u201d They also pursue diverse interests and can make connections well across various fields. \u201cAs the medical profession becomes increasingly more multidisciplinary, a liberal arts frame of mind may be necessary to meaningfully engage in these settings,\u201d Wasson continues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Transylvania students attended a mentoring lunch with a doctor and dentist during Pre-Health Week.
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Steve Adams \u201979 also sees the perks of a broad education. \u201cI think a liberal arts background is beneficial to anyone, not just pre-professional students, in that it supports critical thinking and allows one to expand one’s awareness of life outside one’s area of major interest,\u201d the Louisville anesthesiologist says. \u201cA liberal arts education prepares one for a more thoughtful, expansive approach to life and its challenges.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Adams, a pre-med and biology major as an undergrad, remembers feeling comfortable attending medical school alongside classmates from top-ranked universities. \u201cTransy has always had a good reputation in that regard and is part of the reason I ended up there,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once there, Adams found guidance from professor Moosnick (the museum is named after him). \u201cHe was legendary for getting students into medical school,\u201d Adams says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ajibola Bakare \u201915, who recently received an Alpha Lambda Delta honor society fellowship for his studies at the Tulane University School of Medicine, says the advising and mentorship inside and outside of the science department has played a role in his success after Transy. And the biology major says the fact that he volunteered so much \u2014 from philanthropy events to a University of Kentucky clinic \u2014 enhanced his med school application.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bakare, who came to Transylvania from Lagos, Nigeria, wants to become a physician-scientist, providing compassionate care while researching novel therapeutics that don\u2019t cost very much. \u201cHaving grown up in a region of the world where access to health care is not readily available to everyone, I am passionate about working to help address issues relating to health care accessibility for vulnerable and marginalized communities,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This spirit of service seems to be growing. Prichard says that, especially with the pandemic, more and more students are \u201cseeing the need and wanting to answer the call.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Her respect for those she advises is hard to miss. \u201cI work with some of the most amazing students, and they work so hard,” she says. \u201cThey are going to be phenomenal health care providers.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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