{"id":3015,"date":"2018-01-26T15:00:26","date_gmt":"2018-01-26T20:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/med.sites.unc.edu\/ocsci\/?page_id=3015"},"modified":"2026-03-19T14:26:54","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T18:26:54","slug":"prospectivestudents","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/ocsci\/prospectivestudents\/","title":{"rendered":"Prospective Students"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\">\n<!-- iframe plugin v.5.2 wordpress.org\/plugins\/iframe\/ -->\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/j2_d14-H0Wc?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" 0=\"allowfullscreen&gt;&lt;\/iframe\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\"><\/iframe>\n\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/ocsci\/prospectivestudents\/phd-program-description\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">PhD Program<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>We encourage you to review the information provided on our website, using the links below, and to contact the PhD program coordinator, <a href=\"mailto:nancy_bagatell@med.unc.edu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Nancy Bagatell<\/a>, for more information.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a class=\"btn btn-primary btn-lg  oscitas-bootstrap-container\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/ocsci\/prospectivestudents\/phd-program-description\/\">PhD admissions information<\/a>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/ocsci\/prospectivestudents\/programs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">MS Program<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>We encourage you to review the information provided on the website about both the MS program and the admissions process.<\/p>\n<p>Once you have reviewed the information available on this website, if you have further questions, please email\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:OSinfo@med.unc.edu\">OSinfo@med.unc.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h4>Information Sessions<\/h4>\n<p>Due to time constraints, we are not able to schedule individual meetings with prospective students but do welcome you at Zoom Q&amp;A sessions, which are listed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/ocsci\/prospectivestudents\/information-sessions\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h4>Class Visit Requests<\/h4>\n<p>You also may make a request to sit in on a class by reviewing the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/ocsci\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/559\/2026\/01\/Spring-2026-OT-OS-Schedule_course-descriptions.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">current class schedule<\/a> and then submitting a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/ocsci\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/559\/2018\/08\/ClassVisitRequest.docx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">class visit request form<\/a>. Class visits for fall semester classes typically are available after Labor Day and until the week before Thanksgiving. Class visits for spring semester classes typically begin the 3rd week in January until the end of the first week in April. Class visits are scheduled as possible based on a first come-first served basis.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a class=\"btn btn-primary btn-lg  oscitas-bootstrap-container\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/ocsci\/prospectivestudents\/programs\/\">MS admissions information<\/a>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PhD Program We encourage you to review the information provided on our website, using the links below, and to contact the PhD program coordinator, Nancy Bagatell, for more information. MS Program We encourage you to review the information provided on the website about both the MS program and the admissions process. Once you have reviewed &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/ocsci\/prospectivestudents\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Prospective Students\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":70628,"featured_media":5518,"parent":0,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"layout":"","cellInformation":"","apiCallInformation":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-3015","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","odd"],"acf":[],"_links_to":[],"_links_to_target":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/ocsci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/ocsci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/ocsci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/ocsci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/70628"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/ocsci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3015"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/ocsci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3015\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6171,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/ocsci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3015\/revisions\/6171"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/ocsci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/ocsci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}