Conway Medical Center College of Health and Human Performance

Mission Statement

The Conway Medical Center College of Health and Human Performance personifies education through the university’s teacher-scholar model to enhance the professional growth of students, faculty, staff, and university constituents. The College offers rigorous, student-focused programs of study and practical experiences to promote excellence; striving to motivate and inspire innovators to strategically create value in respective disciplines in collaboration with the community at large.

Vision

 The college strives to create and promote a comprehensive, engaging, and innovative educational experience that prepares the next generation of health, sport, and human performance leaders and educators.

Values

The college believes the following values should be incorporated in all that we do with a commitment to:

• Student-Focused Education: Create rigorous, meaningful learning environments to support each student in developing and accomplishing their personal, educational, and career goals.
• Professional Integrity: Adhere to the highest ethical standards in personal and professional behavior through honesty, confidentiality, and professionalism in our commitment to transparency and accountability.
• Outreach: Provide high-quality educational opportunities, innovative collaborations, and community engagement. 
• Respect: Value people by providing a safe and healthy environment that fosters mutual respect, accessibility, diversity, equity, and inclusion.
• Transformational Living: Foster healthy living through integration of all dimensions of health.

Professional Program Advisement

In addition to advisement for degree programs, Coastal Carolina University also offers advisement regarding professional programs in pre-allied health, pre-dental, pre-medical and pre-nursing.

Pre-Allied Health, Pre-Dental, Pre-Medical

After completing an undergraduate degree, many students who participate in the program transfer to a school of allied health science for graduate degrees in physical therapy, occupational therapy, physician assistant, etc. In selecting electives within their degrees, students should consult with the allied health advisers and choose electives that best prepare them for the professional schools of their choice.

Coastal Carolina University offers pre-dental and pre-medical programs that prepare students for entrance into dental and medical schools. The adviser will advise students in developing a course of study, assist in placing students with dentists or physicians in mentoring/shadowing programs and provide information for the application to dental or medical school.

Pre-Nursing

Adviser: Dr. Wanda Dooley

Coastal Carolina University does not offer a traditional nursing program leading to licensure. After completing one to two years at Coastal Carolina University, pre-nursing students transfer to a university that has a pre-licensure nursing program. Pre-nursing students are encouraged to select one or two programs they are interested in transferring to, and work with their adviser to complete any courses required for transfer admission to those schools.