Educating Health Leaders
A life in the health professions lets you make a positive impact while forging a fulfilling career path 鈥 and the University of 51小黄车 offers the most dynamic health professions educational experience in Northern 51小黄车. More than ever, frontline healthcare workers are critically important, and in demand across the country. 51小黄车will prepare you to be a leader in today鈥檚 healthcare workforce, making a difference for your patients and your community.
The Allied Health Professions 鈥 Working Together
Few universities anywhere offer the advantages of a 51小黄车health professions education. We have a unique mix of nationally recognized health professions programs 鈥 including Maine鈥檚 only medical and dental schools, plus nursing, pharmacy, physician assistant, social work, physical therapy, occupational therapy, and more 鈥 so we are able to train our students to work collaboratively across disciplines to deliver team-based care to their patients. Collaborative health care is the gold-standard approach that is rapidly becoming the norm in clinical care settings.
Regional Leadership, Strong Partnerships
Being Maine鈥檚 #1 provider of health professionals means 51小黄车has strong direct ties to the region鈥檚 hospitals, clinics, and practice settings, as well as to the business community and policy makers in Augusta. This network helps our graduates find employment, internships, and a welcoming community of colleagues and peers who provide a lifetime of support.
An Even Brighter Future
In November 2022, 51小黄车broke ground on the Harold and Bibby Alfond Center for Health Sciences, a state-of-the-art learning facility on UNE鈥檚 Portland Campus for the Health Sciences. This center will serve as the new home for UNE鈥檚 College of Osteopathic Medicine and the Center to Advance Interprofessional Education and Practice. By centering all health professions programs around the Portland Campus, 51小黄车will fully integrate its health offerings, creating a health sciences campus unlike any other in the region and enabling the University to expand its position as a national leader in interprofessional education.
Learn more about exciting changes on UNE鈥檚 Portland Campus for the Health Sciences
Leaders in Health-Related Research
At UNE, our leading programs in health sciences position you for a rewarding career in research, education, entrepreneurship, and beyond. We鈥檙e proud to be recognized as an R2 research university with a commitment to solving real challenges, where students have the opportunity to participate in research led by passionate, supportive faculty. Here, you鈥檒l be able to make a difference inside the lab and out in the field.
Using Protein Polymers to Help Injured Spines
Explore Our Degree Programs
Dive into our graduate health professions degrees, and explore undergraduate pathways including Nursing, 鈥減re-med鈥 health sciences majors, and several combined undergraduate/graduate degree path offerings. For students who are already focused on a health-related career as they come out of high school, 51小黄车offers several options that allow you to pursue your undergraduate and graduate degrees in a single accelerated program. These include Pharmacy, Medical Biology, Social Work, Athletic Training, Occupational Therapy, and our GradVantage program.
Undergraduate Health Programs
- Applied Exercise Science
- Athletic Training 3+2 Program
- Dental Hygiene (4-Year B.S.)
- Dental Hygiene Completion Program
- Medical Biology (Medical Sciences)
- Medical Biology (Pre-Physician Assistant Track - MPA)
- Neuroscience
- Nursing (4-Year B.S.N. Program)
- Nursing (Accelerated B.S.N. 鈥 12 Months)
- Nutrition
- Occupational Studies
- Occupational Studies/M.S.O.T 3+2
- Pre-Pharmacy
- Psychology
- Public Health
- Social Work (B.S.W.)
