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Drexel Pathways to Medical School (DPMS) Program

The Drexel Pathway to Medical School ( DPMS) Program is an early assurance program that provides students from lower socioeconomic/disadvantaged backgrounds a unique opportunity to prove their ability to succeed in a medical school program. Students take a combination of graduate and medical school courses as well as additional courses that prepare them for taking the MCAT in the spring semester. If successful in the DPMS program, the student will be granted automatic admission into the College of Medicine following completion of the program.

See the Drexel Pathways to Medical School (DPMS) page on the College of Medicine's web site for application information.

About the Curriculum
The DPMS program is a one-year graduate level certificate program. A minimum 2.5 GPA is required to receive the Certificate of Program Completion.

The program begins with a mandatory 6-week Academic Assessment and Counseling Enrichment Session beginning the last week of June and continuing
throughout the month of July. Students take the 1-credit Medical Science Preparation course as pass/fail. Students are not charged tuition or fees for this session of the program.

A minimum 2.5 GPA is required to receive the Certificate of Program Completion. In order to retain final acceptance with the College of Medicine, students are required to have at least a 3.0 GPA, a minimum 8 on the Physical and the Biological Sciences and 7 on the Verbal Reasoning section of the MCAT, satisfactory participation in the Academic Assessment and Counseling Enrichment Session, and a program recommendation.

Required Courses			Credits
Summer Enrichment Program
DPMS 500S	Medical Science Preparation			1.0
Fall Semester
IMSP 520S	Medical Physiology I			3.5
IMSP 510S	Medical Biochemistry I			7.5
PHRM 512S	Graduate Pharmacology			3.0
	MCAT Review
Spring Semester
IMSP 521S	Medical Physiology II			3.5
IMSP 511S	Medical Biochemistry II			0.5
IMSP 530S	Medicine and Society II			2.0
MSPP 513S	Special Topics in Anatomy			4.0
	MCAT Review
After completion of the certificate portion of the program, students desiring to continue on to pursue the Master of Biological Science (M.B.S.) degree take the following additional courses:
Summer Research Project
MSPP 550S	Research Project			2.0
Fall Semester
IMSP 540S	Cell Biology and Microanatomy I			5.0
IMSP 570S	Medical Immunology			3.0
IMSP 550S	Medical Nutrition			1.0
IMSP 502S	Medicine and Society I			2.0
MSPP 505S	Laboratory Techniques in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology*			2.0
*Alternately, students can choose to take MSPP 505S in the Fall semester.
Spring Semester
IMSP 541S	Cell Biology and Microanatomy II			3.0
IMSP 560S	Medical Neuroscience			6.0
IDPT 501S	Biostatistics I			2.0