The major seeks to put students in an excellent position for entering a graduate program in medical research, medicine, dentistry, or just about any other area of healthcare. While students learn the basics in the sciences and the liberal arts, they also develop effective teamwork skills, excellent leadership abilities, and advanced written and oral communication skills.

The major includes:

• A curriculum that includes the traditional pre-med courses, as well as unique classes in the critical analysis of research literature; laboratory techniques; social issues in medicine; healthcare policy; leadership; and advanced multidisciplinary studies of immunology/infectious disease, genetics/neuroscience, and cancer
• Involvement in cutting edge biomedical research, starting as early as the freshman year
• Opportunities for internship and apprenticeship in the finest labs at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center and around the world
• Classes taught by the same faculty who instruct Ohio State's medical and graduate students