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with SCU
We are redefining healthcare education. Learn to treat the whole person. Learn from leaders in integrative, whole-person health. Learn to collaborate with other healthcare professionals. Become a competent, caring, and successful healthcare professional at SCU.
Human Genetics
and Genomics
Masters | Certificate
Accelerated Science Courses
Earn science prerequisites at an accelerated pace including required labs. Courses offered in five week blocks with new classes starting every five weeks.
Interprofessional Education
There is an urgent need in healthcare to work across disciplines and professions. At SCU, our interprofessional education model means our graduates learn with, from, and about multiple healthcare professions. SCU is one of the only universities in the world to combine medical, complementary, alternative, and international approaches to healthcare. You will be introduced to a variety of philosophies, practices, and treatment options.
Collaborative Practice
Preparing our graduates for collaborative practice is an SCU priority. By bringing healthcare workers from different professional backgrounds together through classroom and clinical experiences, we prepare our graduates to provide the highest quality of care. Discover an open environment for professionals in multiple disciplines to share unique skills. Seek, understand, and rely on others’ ideas and perspectives to improve your healthcare decision-making.
The Southern California Advantage
When you study at one of the largest and most diverse metropolitan areas in the world, your educational experience prepares you for the real world of healthcare. During clinical training, you will serve patients from a variety of cultural and socioeconomic backgrounds. By connecting, learning, and practicing in Southern California, you are ideally positioned for a future career as a culturally competent and compassionate healthcare professional.
Sunny SoCal
Diverse population. Great weather. Infinite possibilities.
Sunny SoCal
Diverse population. Great weather. Infinite possibilities.
SCU Student Perspectives
Our Value: Integrative Health, Inclusivity
I chose SCU when looking for a PA program because of their Integrative Medicine approach. I am from Michigan, and not many programs focus on this Integrative, Holistic approach when it comes to patient care in the Midwest, and I felt that was very important for me to learn as a future provider. My transition to semi-virtual learning has been very smooth and quite enjoyable. My favorite part about attending SCU is how tight-knit and diverse the community is. Coming from a large undergrad university and moving so far, it was very important for me to have a PA program that made me feel valued and invested in my success. At SCU, they do a great job of making you feel that.
Brianna Hadley
MSPA Class of 2022
Our Value: Integrative Health
One of the great things about SCU is we do have a campus layout, so all your classes aren't in a single room. We have our cadaver lab. We have different specialty rooms for physical assessment classes vs. acupuncture classes. All our acupuncture-specific classes have all the herbs in the room. You can pull out the herbs and look at them, whether in class or in between classes to get that extra studying in.
My favorite part of SCU is the collaboration from our beginning terms. We were working alongside chiropractor students, PA students, and ayurvedic students. It's a unique community where we get to learn about these different fields and sit in classrooms with them and work with them in the clinic. It allows you to get an understanding of all the different fields and how they can work together, and what is unique about your field. I think that is a wonderful aspect that I didn't think was going to be as prominent as it is here; even now, in my upper term classes and I am not in class with chiropractic students, I can still reach out to them about a certain aspect I may not understand or if I am working on a case. I want another perspective I know I have them to reach out to, so that has been a great networking community to have resources for.
Dr. Jamie Kuljis
Graduate, Doctor of Acupuncture and Chinese Medicine
Our Value: Integrative Health, Inclusivity
"There are a lot of things that I love about the program at SCU. The first one is that the faculty come from a long line of Ayurvedic knowledge deeply rooted in ancient classical text. They studied Ayurveda, but they also lived it. When you learn from people who embody this wisdom, it's much easier to grasp this knowledge. The second thing I love is the camaraderie within the cohort. The combination of the training, supportive faculty, and the support of my peers and classmates has given me the confidence I need to start my own practice."
Portia Harris
Student, Ayurveda Program
Our Value: Evidence-Based Practice
Some of my favorite courses at SCU have to be the chiropractic procedure classes; those are the classes you get to hone in on your chiro skills, your palpation skills and ultimately work on the adjustments that make you a chiropractor. Those are the classes I feel enhance my knowledge the most and are some of the reasons I chose to become a chiropractor here are SCU.
On top of chiropractic procedures classes, my favorite is the cadaver lab experience. The cadaver classes opened up my perception of what the human body is made up of. It allowed me to get an in-person perspective of how the body works and looks on the inside. I am genuinely thankful for those experiences because they opened and broadened my horizons to the human body and anatomy in general.
Jordan Vega
Student, Doctor of Chiropractic
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