Constituency: Med students
Office: Center of Excellence
The Student National Medical Association (SNMA) mission is to improve the quality of healthcare by working to increase the number of culturally competent and socially conscious physicians, while also addressing the needs of underserved communities of color through advocacy and sustainable action. SNMA is now the largest, national student organization focused on the needs and concerns of medical students of color.
SNMA Official Site
The Asian Pacific American Medical Student Association's (APAMSA) mission is to bring together those who are interested in health issues that affect the Asian-American community to have a strong, collective, public, and political voice.
Women and Medicine (WAM)'s mission is to organize events and mobilize resources within the Stanford community to support women pursuing a career in medicine and to promote awareness in the medical and university community about gender disparities in medicine.
The Latino Medical Student Association's (LMSA) goals are to promote the advancement of Latinos in academic, clinical, and community medicine.
LGBTQ Meds is dedicated to raising awareness of queer health issues and promoting equal social and political rights for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer people.
Stanford American Indigenous Medical Students (SAIMS) provides opportunities to exchange academic and professional information pertaining to the health care needs of Native Americans, Alaskan Natives, and Native Hawaiians.
The Stanford Health Justice Coalition is committed to the protection of patients' rights and access to healthcare.
Stanford connects practitioners to the latest online educational offerings through multi-modal teaching including on inclusive best practices.
The Stanford Muslim Medical Association (SMMA) strives to foster a spiritually nurturing, tolerant, and inclusive Muslim community at the Stanford School of Medicine and affiliated hospitals.
Stanford University Minority Medical Alliance (SUMMA) is a coalition of Stanford medical student organizations with the goal to increase diversity in the health professions in order to better care for underserved communities.
In this lunch talk series, students will explore the interaction of Asian-American culture and the practice of medicine, through personal and professional perspectives and narractives of physicians and others in healthcare.
An exciting course that challenges you to explore how culture and language impact the effectiveness of clinical encounters and the role of race and culture in caring for patients.
Topics in Neurodiversity: Introduction and Advocacy provides the foundation knowledge and essential skills for understanding, engaging with, and advocating for the neurodiverse population.
A quarterly lecture series in which distinguished minority faculty members and scholars from across the country deliver academic presentations on topics relating to minority health.
The Knight-Hennessy Scholars develops a community of future global leaders to address complex challenges through collaboration and innovation.
The Mary Duke Biddle Scholars program provides funds to encourage the global health interests of trainees in pediatrics by sending them overseas to provide clinical care to children most in need.
The David A. Zlotnick, MD Memorial Endowed Fund encourages, develops, and supports the volunteerism of Stanford medical students interested in pediatrics, pediatric residents, and pediatric faculty members.
The Cardinal Free Clinics were created to fill a void in the health care safety net that is met by very few other providers, and represents a new and innovative model for providing free health care to the underserved.
The Award for Excellence in Promotion of Diversity and Societal Citizenship (MD Program) honors medical students who have made outstanding contributions to diversity and equitable societal contributions.
The LGBT Medical Education Research Group's mission is to be a significant contributor to the field of LGBT health by creating and communicating new knowledge through innovative research, influencing health and educational policies, and advocating for LGBT patients and providers.
The Community Health Symposium is an annual event showcasing a wide range of service and partnership research projects undertaken by Stanford students, trainees, and faculty in underserved communities here and around the world.
The Stanford Women's Health & Sex Differences in Medicine (WHSDM) Center acknowledges the wisdom of conducting innovative, multi-disciplinary research on women's health and sex differences in biology and medicine.
The Perry Initiative is committed to inspiring young women to be leaders in the exciting fields of orthopaedic surgery and engineering by running hands-on outreach programs across the country for women students in high school, college, and medical school.
The International Visiting Students Program aims to add value to elective clerkships by exposing students to an international perspective on medicine.
The specific goals of SCORE are to (1) increase the recruitment of diverse trainees into academic medicine, (2) provide education and career development in support of Stanford Medicine's mission, (3) enhance the educational experience of Stanford medical students by increasing interactions with trainees from diverse backgrounds, and (4) foster opportunities for collaboration with other institutions where the visiting trainees are based.
The Leadership in Health Disparities Program (LHDP) promotes academic careers in medicine among minority and disadvantaged medical students and creates the next generation of physician leaders to address health disparities.
To save lives and reduce suicidal behaviors by providing innovative, practical and proven suicide prevention training.
This course explores specific, pertinent, and timely issues impacting the health of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender community, and examines the role of the primary care physician in addressing the health care needs of this community.
The goal of Discussions in Global Health is to encourage students to think broadly about the variety of activities encompassed within global health and the roles of various entities, including NGOs, governments, and healthcare providers, in responding to large-scale health crises, building health systems, and caring for patients in developing countries.
This course explores the processes through which social status and environmental determinants adversely affect health and drive inequalities.