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The School of Allied Health Professions
Since 1966, Loma Linda University's School of Allied Health Professions has been training highly skilled and dedicated health-care professionals in many fields. Whatever their specialty, Loma Linda graduates enjoy job security, good paying wages, and the pleasures of a personally rewarding career.
We are committed to creating a globally recognized, world-class learning environment where students are taught in the manner of Christ.
Our purpose is to prepare our graduates to be employees of choice for premier organizations around the world by providing them with practical learning experiences through partnerships with those open to sharing our vision.
We envision an environment that enables learners to lead, to heal, to serve, and touch the world in a way that transforms lives.
Our Program Offerings
Our students have a choice to pursue many degree options. They may pursue two-year associate in science degrees, bachelor of science degrees, or master's and doctorate programs. Programs have the advantage of offering students training in a progressive, state-of-the-art medical center and in clinical facilities locally and throughout the country.
Students wishing to pursue one of the more challenging programs in allied health should have a strong background in mathematics and the sciences in addition to a variety of technical skills needed for some programs.
We offer forty-four specialty degrees in the fields of:
What are Allied Health Professions?
Allied health practitioners are involved with the delivery of health care or related services pertaining to the identification, evaluation, prevention, and rehabilitation of diseases and disorders in clients of all ages. Allied health professionals work in different environments and settings. Professions vary from working behind the scenes in an office or lab setting with minimal patient contact or in direct hands-on treatment settings.
Allied health professionals have taken college-level courses and hold degrees from certificates to doctorates in their profession. They have taken and passed national board exams and are certified and/or licensed to practice in their profession of choice.
A number of students use a degree in an allied health area as a stepping stone to advanced degrees in other medical fields.
Academic, Professional, and Spiritual Responsibilities
Our primary responsibility is the education of our students who come from diverse religious, ethnic, and cultural backgrounds enabling them to acquire the foundation of knowledge, skills, values, attitudes, and behaviors appropriate for their chosen academic or health-care ministry. We nurture their intellectual curiosity. We facilitate their development into active, independent learners. We provide continuing educational opportunities for our alumni and professional peers. We encourage a personal Christian faith that permeates the lives of those we educate.
Our Faculty & Staff
We respect our administration, faculty, and staff, who through education, research, and service create a stimulating learning environment for our students. They contribute to the development of new understandings in their chosen fields. They demonstrate both Christian values and competence in their professions. They educate and respond to the therapeutic and rehabilitative needs of people.
We believe in educating ethical and proficient Christian health professionals and scholars through instruction, example, and the pursuit of truth while expanding knowledge through research in the biological, behavioral, physical, and environmental sciences and applying this knowledge to health and disease.
Our faculty members seek to enhance the quality of life for individuals in local, regional, national, and world communities by educating the future competent practitioners that will sustain their respective professions.
Our Student Body
Our students are as diverse as our programs. Our young adult students are coming to us with minimum college course requirements, while others may be adult learners returning to advance their educational goals with many life experiences. We accept students local to California as well as international students who choose at attend Loma Linda University and then return to their homeland with advanced knowledge and a prestigious degree within their chosen profession.
Loma Linda University accepts students from all religions and faiths. Over 60 religions are represented. Students do not need to convert to the Seventh-day Adventist Church to attend.
We invite you to explore your allied health educational options at Loma Linda University!
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Last Revised: Tue, Apr 08, 2008
