A college graduate is providing students here what he did not have in college: an opportunity for students to learn about the field they are studying from the professionals. He has founded the new Pre-med Club.

Founder Nick Mondeck said the club provides a chance for medical students to learn from doctors about what it takes to go through the admissions system at medical schools.

The club also plans on having the members attend seminars and visit hospitals to witness a live autopsy being performed, Kamran Golestaneh, chemistry professor and faculty adviser for the club, said.

“If you have contacts with doctors working in the field and you get a chance to go to hospitals, you become more serious about your future,” Golestaneh said.

The club is for anyone interested in attending medical school. Besides pre-med majors, it is also for students interested in pre-dentistry, pre-pharmacy, and even physicians, Golestaneh said.

“These are difficult majors by their natures, so you definitely need to know the system and be determined,” Golestaneh.

Golestaneh also said that based on his classes, from a class of about 35 students, approximately 50 percent of them are biology majors studying health-related professions, but less than 5 percent succeed in the major.

He said that many students aspire to medical fields because the jobs pay a lot of money, but they don’t realize how much work goes into the profession.

“They have to have the true spirit of helping others to be in those fields,” Golestaneh said.

Mondeck said he also wants the club to appeal to students who do not have 4.0 GPA and to get students interested in going to medical schools.

“If there is motivation, students will work harder and study harder,” Luke Kim, pre-dentistry major, said.

Kim also said he enjoys seeing the school (EC) helping students with pre-med majors.

Golestaneh said he believes that students will get a lot out of the Pre-med Club.

“I think the club will support students when they get ready to apply for medical schools,” Golestaneh said.

He said that he thinks it will be helpful to the students’ admissions to medical schools to be part of the club because it will show to the faculty of the schools that the students are serious about their majors.