The Health Professions Office (HPO), located on the Busch campus, offers a wide range of services to all Rutgers-New Brunswick students planning to enter one of the health-care fields. This office offers counseling and advisory services, maintains student files, and supplies application materials. It publishes a monthly newsletter and has produced a handbook and several other publications for students. The HPO also maintains a library that includes reference materials, professional school catalogs, admissions statistics, and videos.
Students interested in postgraduate study in health care are urged to visit the HPO to open a file. Students then may begin asking their instructors and others for letters of recommendation, which are to be submitted on a standard form available in the HPO. After a student has completed requirements for admission to a professional school, the HPO will schedule an interview between the student and a member of the Health Professions Advisory Committee. This interview culminates in a composite letter of evaluation that, at the student`s direction, is forwarded to each school to which the student applies.
The HPO is located in Nelson Biological Laboratories, Room A-119, on the Busch campus. For further information about the HPO on the Busch campus, call 732/445-5667.
There is a second office available to Douglass College students. For more information about the Douglass College office, call 732/932-9197, ext. 19. Douglass students also may use the Busch campus office.
Students interested in the study of pharmacy are encouraged to contact the Ernest Mario School of Pharmacy at 732/445-2675, ext. 605.
