Specially selected students may pursue a bachelor`s degree and a medical degree in an eight-year articulated program. The first and second years of college are included in the eight years. Applicants must be in their fourth term at Rutgers and must have completed 40 credits with a minimum cumulative grade-point average of 3.2 by the end of the third term. By the end of the fourth term, applicants must have completed, or be in the process of completing, the following: two terms each of general biology, general chemistry, and organic chemistry, and one term each of English and college-level mathematics. Two terms of physics and an additional term of English must be completed by the end of the third year. Performance on advanced placement exams and in transfer courses usually is not considered in evaluating candidates for admission. Applicants with advanced-placement biology credits must have completed at least one biology course at Rutgers-New Brunswick. Applicants from the Newark and Camden campuses, if admitted, are required to transfer to a college on the New Brunswick campus.
Successful applicants initially are given provisional admission into the program and are permitted to take at least one medical school course per term. A second review of the student`s credentials is made by the medical school during the fourth year to ascertain that the student has maintained adequate academic and nonacademic qualities appropriate for retention in the medical school. It is expected that students earn grades of A or B (Honors or High Pass) in courses taken at both universities. Contact the Advising Office of the Office of Undergraduate Instruction for additional requirements and information.
Students enrolled in the articulated program may choose any major available to them at Rutgers-New Brunswick. Those students who wish to pursue a major other than the biological sciences, must discuss their plans with the appropriate department in order to establish the requirements they need to complete for their major. Except as stipulated below, students enrolled in the articulated program with a major in biological sciences are expected to fulfill all requirements of the major.
The following University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School (UMDNJ-RWJMS) courses may be used to fulfill requirements of the major in the biological sciences: cell biology and histology, gross anatomy, microbiology and immunology, physiology, biochemistry, and neural sciences. No more than 4 credits per laboratory course and 3 credits per nonlaboratory course may be used toward the bachelor`s degree. Additional credits may not be used as elective credits toward the Rutgers baccalaureate degree.
A student may not receive biological sciences credits for UMDNJ-RWJMS Cell Biology and Histology and Rutgers Animal Histology (01:146:322); UMDNJ-RWJMS Gross Anatomy and Rutgers Human Anatomy (01:377:424); UMDNJ-RWJMS Microbiology and Immunology and Rutgers General Microbiology (01:447:390), Rutgers Pathogenic Microbiology (01:447:392) and Immunology (01:146:474); UMDNJ-RWJMS Physiology and Rutgers Systems Physiology (01:146:356,357); UMDNJ-RWJMS Neural Science and Rutgers Advanced Neurobiology (01:146: 445, 447); UMDNJ-RWJMS Biochemistry and Rutgers Introductory Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (01:694:301), and General Biochemistry (11:115:403-404); and UMDNJ-RWJMS Human Genetics and Rutgers Topics in Human Genetics (01:447:481).
A student enrolled in the articulated program with a major in the biological sciences is required to take Rutgers General Biology (01:119:101-102), Rutgers Genetics (01:447:380), and three additional Rutgers biology electives (3- or 4-credit courses) at the 300 to 400 level. The additional Rutgers requirements for the major may be fulfilled by Rutgers and/or UMDNJ-RWJMS courses indicated above. UMDNJ-RWJMS biomedical laboratory courses may be used to satisfy the laboratory requirement of the Rutgers major in the biological sciences. B.A./M.D. students who wish to minor in the biological sciences must take a Rutgers biology course at the 300 or 400 level in addition to the UMDNJ-RWJMS courses indicated above.
