Make An Appointment

Are you looking to make an appointment with one of our career counselors? The Pre-Health Student Resource Center offers 30 minute appointments with their career counselors for a variety of situations.

This page includes instructions on how to request the following three types of appointments:

Health Program Action Plan feedback and coaching
Personal Statement Review
Interview Prep (using InterviewStream)

Follow the instructions below to make an appointment with a PHSRC career counselor.

The Pre-Health Student Resource Center currently has a high demand for appointments. We will be using the following priority when we are scheduling appointments: current UMN Twin Cities Students, current UMN system campus students UMN alumni, career changers planning to apply to UMN health science degree programs, followed by the general public. Our wait times for appointments are running between 1 and 2 weeks, sometimes less, sometimes more.

If you are a student at another college or university, we encourage you to use your Action Plan or Personal Statement and make an appointment with your pre-health advisor, advisor, or another student services person at your own school, as they will be most familiar with you and the options that are available at your school to help build your application.

Make An Appointment:
Personal Statement Review

We encourage you to start by reviewing the Personal Statements for a Health Program online workshop. This series of online modules builds an understanding of the purpose of the personal statement and includes reflection exercises to help you with your writing.
When you have your personal statement draft complete and ready for review, you can complete the appointment request form where you will link to or upload your draft, give your appointment availability, and list technology preferences (Zoom vs. phone).

Appointment Request Form

Make An Appointment: Interview Prep (InterviewStream)

If you have an interview coming up for health professional school, please follow the steps below to request an appointment with a PHSRC counselor. We utilize a tool called InterviewStream, where we have pre-loaded sample questions from health professional school interviews for you to review, and then record yourself answering. You can then share those recorded responses with our staff and get feedback.

We highly recommend reviewing the Interviewing for a Health Program online workshop as an in-depth overview into the interview process, types of interviews, example questions, and how to reflect on your experiences and build your responses.
Then, email us at [email protected] to request an InterviewStream account. Our staff will set one up for you, and you will get an email with that information. You can then log in and access the examples interview questions and create your own response recordings.
If you'd like to get PHSRC staff feedback on your recorded responses, you can share them from within the InterviewStream platform. Share them with [email protected]
Then separately, email us at [email protected] to set up an appointment time. In the email, include: your appointment availability (dates/times), your technology preference (Zoom vs. phone), what program you are applying to and if/when you have an invitation to interview.

Want to talk application preparation, but still deciding between two (or more) health careers?

If you are still deciding between two or more health careers, but want to have an appointment with a career counselor to discuss your application portfolio, you can choose the Action Plan associated with one of the health careers you're considering and request an appointment using the instructions on this page. Just be sure to mention in the appointment notes that you are still considering your career choice. This is a common situation and we're happy to help you as you consider multiple health career options.

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