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Family Nurse Practitioner and Physician Assistant Program

International Medical Graduate (IMG) Requirements

Prerequisite Courses

If any applicant's prerequisite courses were completed at a college, university or medical school outside of the United States or Canada, the following (4) courses must be retaken at a U.S. accredited college. No FNP/PA Program courses will be waived for completion of similar courses in medical school.

  1. English composition
    any college composition course that meets the baccalaureate requirement, excluding ESL courses.
  2. Cultural anthropology, or sociology or psychology
    two semester units or three quarter units
  3. Human anatomy (with lab) or Human physiology (with lab) or Microbiology (with lab).
  4. Algebra*
    any level of algebra will meet the math requirement with the exception of pre-algebra.

*A statistics course taken in the U.S. will also meet the math requirement.

Transcript Evaluation Services

The program requires: (1) official copies of all transcripts; and (2) a professional transcript evaluation by an independent educational evaluating service.  The program will only accept evaluations from the following two services: 

World Education Services, Inc. (WES)
PO Box 745
New York, NY 10113-0745
Phone: (212) 966-6311
http://www.wes.org/

International Education Research Foundation (IERF)
PO Box 3665
Culver City, CA 90231-3665
Phone:  (310) 258-9451
http://www.ierf.org/

The report must include a degree equivalent evaluation and course-by-course equivalent evaluation. An original, sealed report must be submitted with the application.