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How to Unleash Your Potential in the Top STEM Careers

Looking to build a successful career in a high-demand field? Explore top STEM careers that offer both growth opportunities and stability and pathways to launching your career. Whether you’re interested in technology, engineering, or health sciences, STEM careers have the potential …

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A Message from the Health professions Team

We hope you enjoyed  the truly exquisite fall colors that unfolded all around us this fall. Whether this is your first time seeing the maples, oaks, beeches, and birches in this ecstatic display of color or you’ve been in the …

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Job & Internship Search Sites

In addition to Handshake, we compiled a list of jobs and internship sites.

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Career & Exploration Guides

Amherst College Guide for Premedical Students

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This Guide focuses on “allopathic” medicine (i.e. becoming a physician with an M.D. degree), because that is …

Part I: Preparing to Apply to Medical School

Amherst Pre-Health Guide Part 1 (Fall 2026)

Whether you have always known you wanted to be a doctor, veterinarian, dentist, …

Part II: The Medical School Application Process

Amherst Pre-Health Guide Part 2 (Fall 2026)

Applying to medical, veterinary, or dental school is an exciting culmination to your …

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Alumni

Beselot Birhanu

Alumni-in-Residence
  • Fourth-year Medical Student Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Meet Beselot

Stefan Breitling

Alumni-in-Residence
  • Instructor; Attending Physician Harvard Medical School; Boston Children's Hospital
Meet Stefan

Wendy Halpern

Alumni-in-Residence
  • Veterinary Pathologist Genentech
Meet Wendy

Newton Juhng

Alumni-in-Residence
  • New York, New York
  • Portfolio Manager and Head of Healthcare A-CAP Management
Meet Newton

Christina Nieves

Alumni-in-Residence
  • Community Research and Evaluation Specialist Center for Health Equity and Community Wellness
Meet Christina

Thierry Pauyo

Alumni-in-Residence
  • Professor of Orthopedic Surgery McGill University
Meet Thierry

Lou Silverman

Alumni-in-Residence
  • CEO & Board Chairman
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Jodie Simms-MacLeod

Alumni-in-Residence
  • Midwifery Director University of Tennessee Medical Center
Meet Jodie

Cuthbert Simpkins

Alumni-in-Residence
  • Sosland Missouri Endowed Chair in Trauma Services/Chief Innovation Officer UMKC School of Medicine and Vivacelle Bio, Inc
Meet Cuthbert

Will Turner

Alumni-in-Residence
  • New York City, New York
  • Practicing Hospitalist and Associate Professor of Medicine Columbia University Irving Medical Center
Meet Will

Gabriela Ulloa

Alumni-in-Residence
  • First-year Resident Physician in Pediatrics NYU Langone
Meet Gabriela

Kimberlee Wyche-Etheridge

Alumni-in-Residence
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413-542-2265
Email
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