The College of William & Mary

Program Advisor

Ashleigh Everhardt Queen, M. Sc., Ed.D.
Allied Health Professions Advisor
Adair Hall, Room 115-A
aeeverhardt@wm.edu
757-221-2777

Prerequisites

Below are the courses offered through the College of William & Mary that will be accepted toward completing the 8 prerequisites to apply to the PA program. Only 1 of the acceptable courses listed is required to meet the prerequisite. If multiple courses listed are on the transcript, the course with the highest grade will be used in our review. 

  1. Please note that 7 of 8 prerequisite courses must be completed before the EAP application deadline.
  2. All courses must be completed at William & Mary with a B- or better.
  3. Pre-requisite courses must not be repeated for poor performance.

Note: Any exceptions must be approved in advance by the Admissions Directors and will not be granted retroactively.

Prerequisite Acceptable W&M course(s)
Anatomy KINE 303: Human Anatomy
KINE 315. Human Anatomy Lab
Physiology KINE 304: Human Physiology
KINE 305. Human Physiology Lab
General Chemistry CHEM 103: General Chemistry I

Organic Chemistry or Biochemistry

CHEM 206: Organic Chemistry I
CHEM 414: Biochemistry

Microbiology or Cell Biology

BIOL 306: Microbiology
BIOL 310: Molecular Cell Biology
KINE 310/311: Microbes in Human Disease

General Psychology

PSYC 202: Introduction to Psychology as a Social Science

Upper Level Psychology

PSYC 310: Developmental Psychology
PSYC 318: Psychopathology (Abnormal Psychology)

Math

BIOL 327: Introduction to Biostatistics
KINE 394: Statistics & Evaluation
PSYC 301: Elementary Statistics
PSYC 302: Experimental Methods
MATH 106: Elementary Probability & Statistics