General Admissions & OTCAS Schools without physics, chem, medical terminology prereqs?

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Hello everyone, I was wondering if anyone knows of some OT programs that don't require physics, medical terminology, chemistry, or any other advanced science courses beyond biology and anatomy and physiology?

Thanks
 
Columbia, NYU, LIU-Brooklyn do not require physics, medical terminology, or chemistry.

Just a side note, some schools require chemistry to be taken as a pre-requisite course for biology, and human anatomy and physiology. You'll have a better understanding of biology if you take chemistry...
 
SJSU MOT program does not require those courses for prerequisites if you are looking for something on the West Coast.
 
Thank you all for the feedback. I was a psychology major in undergrad so I didn't have many of these natural science courses. I'm currently studying for the gre, volunteering, and I have registered to take A&P 1 and 2 this summer. I'm trying to get in some applications this year so I don't have the time to take physics, chem, etc. if I don't get in anywhere this application season then ill likely take physics and medical terminology over the next year, but I'd really like to get in somewhere for 2015.
 
Hello everyone, I was wondering if anyone knows of some OT programs that don't require physics, medical terminology, chemistry, or any other advanced science courses beyond biology and anatomy and physiology?

Thanks

PassionateOTstudent2014 makes a good point that if you haven't completed A&P yet, you may need to take chem as a prerequisite for it (I know all the community colleges near me require it.)

If you have already completed A&P though, there are definitely plenty of schools that don't require it. If you browse OTCAS participating programs on the OTCAS website, you can easily see the prereqs for all of those schools. A few I know of are Thomas Jefferson University, Temple University, Salus University, University of Pittsburgh and University of Puget Sound.
 
PassionateOTstudent2014 makes a good point that if you haven't completed A&P yet, you may need to take chem as a prerequisite for it (I know all the community colleges near me require it.)

If you have already completed A&P though, there are definitely plenty of schools that don't require it. If you browse OTCAS participating programs on the OTCAS website, you can easily see the prereqs for all of those schools. A few I know of are Thomas Jefferson University, Temple University, Salus University, University of Pittsburgh and University of Puget Sound.

I've registered for A&P already and the only prerequisites are biology 101 and 102 which I've taken, so there's no point in taking chemistry unless I have to as it's additional time, money, and effort that i'd rather avoid if necessary. Thanks for the info, I'll take a look.
 
If you were a psych major, did you take any sort of neuroscience course? That's a requirement for a psych major at some schools. That would open up a few options for grad schools. Also, the medical terminology prerequisite in most cases only needs to be a one credit class. Taking medical terminology at the same time (or just after) A&P makes it much easier. A & P is almost synergistic with medical terminology. One school that offers a one credit medical terminology class is Northern Virginia Community College. They do have a weird system for proctoring exams, where you either have to go to campus, or take the test online through Proctor U.(proctoru.com?) I think they probably offer it as an 8 week class in the first 8 weeks of the fall semester. Most schools allow you to have one or more prerequisites in progress, so if you are planning on taking Physics in the fall, go ahead and apply to schools that require it.

Another thing to consider is whether the school requires that all of your prerequisites be done recently. Some want those classes done as recently as within the past 5 years. So if your Intro to Psychology or Biology 101 classes were done in your first semester in college, and you have been out of school more than a year or two, you may run into issues. I know that can seem kind of silly, but I am retaking an intro class of the subject I spent two years majoring in.
 
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One school that offers a one credit medical terminology class is Northern Virginia Community College. They do have a weird system for proctoring exams, where you either have to go to campus, or take the test online through Proctor U.(proctoru.com?) I think they probably offer it as an 8 week class in the first 8 weeks of the fall semester.
I live in the DC area (Virginia resident), and since it had been ten years since my undergrad degree which was not in anything remotely science related, I did all of my prereqs at Northern VA Community College, including the 1 credit med term class. It's super-easy, though you would have to do the Proctor U thing if you don't live locally; I did all of the exams for my online courses at the testing center there. A&P, I took in person (same with Physics) but did not need to take Chemistry or Bio to do so, and no schools I applied to required Chem (not all required Physics). I can also say as someone with two arts/humanities degrees who has always disliked math, Physics wasn't bad, and the kind of physics you need for OT isn't the crazy hard kind. You just need to understand mechanics (force, acceleration, levers, etc), and that is all just plugging numbers into formulas. Basic algebra and nothing more. I actually liked Physics 🙂
 
If you were a psych major, did you take any sort of neuroscience course? That's a requirement for a psych major at some schools. That would open up a few options for grad schools. Also, the medical terminology prerequisite in most cases only needs to be a one credit class. Taking medical terminology at the same time (or just after) A&P makes it much easier. A & P is almost synergistic with medical terminology. One school that offers a one credit medical terminology class is Northern Virginia Community College. They do have a weird system for proctoring exams, where you either have to go to campus, or take the test online through Proctor U.(proctoru.com?) I think they probably offer it as an 8 week class in the first 8 weeks of the fall semester. Most schools allow you to have one or more prerequisites in progress, so if you are planning on taking Physics in the fall, go ahead and apply to schools that require it.

Another thing to consider is whether the school requires that all of your prerequisites be done recently. Some want those classes done as recently as within the past 5 years. So if your Intro to Psychology or Biology 101 classes were done in your first semester in college, and you have been out of school more than a year or two, you may run into issues. I know that can seem kind of silly, but I am retaking an intro class of the subject I spent two years majoring in.

Hey, thanks for the response. You would be correct, as a psych major I took behavioral neuroscience. I know the medical terminology will be useful, but I'm having a hard time fitting it into my schedule as in addition to the A&P courses which are 5 days per week, i'm also taking anthropology during maymester as well as accumulating as much volunteering hours as I can while concurrently studying assiduously for the GRE. I'm trying to get my applications in at some schools by October 15th, so between now and then I have a highly rigorous and extensive list of things to accomplish. Although irrelevant as far as admissions is concerned, I took four semesters of Latin which will hopefully help me almost as much as medical terminology.

As far as the prerequisites go, it shouldn't be a huge issue as I literally just graduated in December 2013. That being said, I'm planning on retaking anthropology during the forthcoming maymester as I took it in my freshman year and made a B+ so I'd like to make that an A so as to increase my prerequisite GPA.

I actually didn't even consider the Fall semester so thank you for bringing that up. I may just take medical terminology then and maybe physics if I feel as though it's necessary.
 
If you wanted to take medical terminology online at NVCC, the one credit course is only $350 as an out of state student. They use a book with flashcards attached. If you use the flashcard set and are confident you know the material (you can find out by doing the online homeworks) you don't have to spend much time on the course. 1-2 hours per homework per week, then spend 2 hours on each of 4 exams.
 
If you wanted to take medical terminology online at NVCC, the one credit course is only $350 as an out of state student. They use a book with flashcards attached. If you use the flashcard set and are confident you know the material (you can find out by doing the online homeworks) you don't have to spend much time on the course. 1-2 hours per homework per week, then spend 2 hours on each of 4 exams.

I also took Medical Terminology (and nearly all of my prereqs for that matter) online at NVCC. Besides having deadlines once a week where you really do need to do the homework and take the quizzes, the class was incredibly easy. It was completely rote memorization and had about a million points by the end of the semester, giving you a lot of wiggle room to miss some questions on the exams and still get an A. I took it between A&P I and II and found that it definitely helped me a bit in II.

In terms of schools, none of the four programs I applied to required Physics or Chem (VCU, Thomas Jefferson, BU, Temple). I actually took medical terminology in order to apply to NOVA Southeastern but ended up not applying there after all.
 
Boston University, Tufts University, Worcester State University, American International College, Bay Path College, Springfield College

These schools are all around the Massachusetts area and none of them require chemistry or physics as far as I know.
 
California State University: Dominguez Hills and UNC are two other schools that dont ask for those...
 
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