How does Holy Cross Health Professions Program differ from those at most colleges?
In addition to giving students the best possible science education in preparation for medicine and other health professions, Holy Cross strongly emphasizes the ethical and humanistic side of medical education. This focus on the humanistic side of medicine is not confined to the many classes in literature, philosophy, ethics, etc., that we offer our students or even the many service activities to which most of our program participants contribute; it also is present in the atmosphere that we attempt to create within the Health Professions Program itself. Too many people believe that ‘survival of the fittest’ must be the operative strategy for a premedical student, and they advise students that they must work frantically to beat their competition. Holy Cross is unalterably opposed to this sort of approach, and we have worked hard to try and eliminate the Darwinian selection process that is all too common in premedical education. Instead, we have endeavored to create an atmosphere of acade
