Begin Your Career in Healthcare
Buffalo State is a great place to begin your career journey in medicine, dentistry, and other healthcare fields. We offer flexible degree programs that can be tailored to your specific health-career goals and provide ample opportunities for hands-on learning, professional internships, and undergraduate research experiences.
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Work with your advisor to choose other General Education courses or choose a minor and take courses in that minor. You can look ahead to see what other courses are needed and take one of those as well. Just pay close attention to required pre-requisites!
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Career and Professional Education (CAPE) at Buffalo State is an amazing resource for investigating career options. You can make an appointment to see any of the CAPE counselors or visit Cleveland Hall 306.
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For general course advisement, please see your professional or academic advisor (they are found in your Navigate360 Success Network.) Advisors can help you figure out your course needs for your major and guide you on what pre-health courses will fit in that schedule. If you have specific questions about health-based careers you can email prehealth@buffalostate.edu, stop by to see Shannon Casterline in SAMC337, or contact Cate Vivacqua in CAPE which is located in Cleveland Hall 306.
Alumni Spotlight
Jaafar Hamdan
Jaafar graduated From Buffalo State University in 2012 with honors and earned a B.A. in Biology with a minor in Chemistry. He continued on to the American University of Antigua College of Medicine and earned his MD in 2020. After graduating, he completed his internal medicine residency at HCA Florida Oak Hill Hospital. Currently he is a hospitalist at Tampa General Hospital. Buffalo State provided Jaafar with early exposure into the realm of medicine, which he attributes to sparking his interest and fueling future success in the field. Jaafar was given access to research opportunities in Dr. Martha Skerrett's lab through which he learned that science and medicine was the right fit for him. He feels the guidance he received from Dr. Skerrett helped him not only with his achievements at Buffalo State but also equipped him with the knowledge and skills to assist him in his future endeavors. Jaafar also praised the Pre-health advisement he received at Buffalo State, stating that it has been invaluable to his success.