Location:	Science Building,
	Room B 338
Telephone:	1-718-997-3470
Director and
Chair:	Valli Cook
Admin.
Assistant:	Catherine Farley
	qc.health.professions@qc.cuny.edu

Hours:	9:00am-4:30pm Mon-Fri (Fall & Spring)
	9:00am-4:30pm Mon-Thu (Summer)

The health professions include medicine, dentistry, optometry, podiatry, chiropractic, veterinary medicine and pharmacy, as well as nursing and its specialties, occupational and physical therapy, and physician assistant. To become a practitioner in any health profession, a student usually completes pre-professional studies at a four-year college or university, and then applies for admission to an accredited professional school. The length of professional training varies according to profession and degree of specialization. Physicians, for example, spend four years in medical college, followed by at least three years of additional training.

Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of overcoming it.

- Helen Keller (1880-1968)