Admission Process & Requirements

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree from a regionally accredited institution
  
  
• An MCAT score attained within 5 years of applying to the program
  
  
• 3 letters of recommendation
  • The references portion is called Evaluations and is located in the Supporting Information section. You are required to have a minimum of 3 evaluations. Once you have saved an electronic evaluation, an email request will automatically be sent to the evaluator on your behalf. Please advise your evaluator to look for this email in their inbox, as well as their spam or junk mail folder, as emails do occasionally get filtered out.
    
    
• Completion of the prerequisite courses within 7 years of your start date in the program.

• A minimum of 8 hours of anesthetist shadowing (Applicants are encouraged to fulfill as many hours as possible.)
  
  
  • Applicants to the program must be familiar with the practice of anesthesia, including related activities in the operating room.
    
    
• Individuals applying to the program must spend at least 8 hours with an anesthetist or an anesthesiologist in an operating room environment observing the conduct of anesthesia. Applicants who meet the minimum requirement will be considered for admission, but additional hours are strongly suggested. The applicant is encouraged to visit a local hospital and ask to speak with the anesthesiologist who directs the department of anesthesia.
  
  
• Background Check administered through the purchase of package code UF28 on CastleBranch.com 
  
  
• A CASPer online assessment through Altus Suite
  
  
  • All applicants applying to the Anesthesiologist Assistant Program, at The University of Colorado are required to complete an online suite of assessments (Altus Suite), to assist with our selection process.
    
  • Altus Suite consists of a two part online assessment of non-cognitive skills, interpersonal characteristics, and personal values and priorities that we believe are important for successful students and graduates of our program. Altus Suite will complement the other tools that we use for applicant screening. In implementing Altus Suite, we are trying to further enhance fairness and objectivity in our selection process.
    
  • Altus Suite consists of:
    • Casper: a 60-90 minute online situational judgment test (SJT)
    • Snapshot: a 10-minute one-way interview with standardized questions
      
  • You will register for Altus Suite for the US Professional Health Sciences test (CSP-10101).
    
  • Access www.TakeAltus.com to create an account and for more information on important dates and requirements, and the Altus Suite assessments. 

   

Process

Applicants need to create an account and complete an application through CASAA. You will submit all materials to and/or through CASAA (see above - MCAT scores, transcripts, letters of evaluations, forms, etc.).

Under the Program Materials section, you will need to upload:

• A CV or resume (include any medical experience you may have)
  
  
• Documentation of Shadowing Experience
  • upload under SHADOWING/HEALTHCARE HOURS
  • combine multiple forms into a single file
    
    
• Documentation Concerning Technical Standards Form
  • upload under OTHER
    
    
• Criminal Background Check Release Form
  • upload under OTHER
    
    
• Drug Screen Release Form
  • upload under OTHER

After you submit all materials, CASAA will verify your application. At that point, the Admissions Committee will review it. If you are selected for an interview, we will notify you via email.  

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