Your life, in and out of medicine
Through a network of student-focused services and groups, you’ll enjoy the benefits of a supportive and close-knit community. The Office of Student Affairs will guide you throughout your medical school career, acting as your compass from the White Coat Ceremony to Commencement. As our alumni base grows, you also have an expanding network of graduates committed to supporting those who follow in their footsteps.
Bringing wellness to the greater community
A physician holds the highest commitment to the communities he or she serves, and nothing is more gratifying or energizing than bringing health and wellness to those communities. A range of partnerships and community service initiatives enable you to use your valuable knowledge and skills to make a real difference in people’s lives.
Opportunities for service might include:
Student Interest Groups
Our many student-driven interest and co-curricular groups enable you to pursue your specific medical interests and address modern health care issues. These groups, in addition to student government, also give you a voice in shaping your education and overall student experience.
There are also many opportunities to stay active, including intramurals or clubs dedicated to getting you off campus and flexing your non-clinical muscles.
We offer more than 40 interest and co-curricular student groups, and we're continually adding more:
- Addiction Medicine Interest Group
- American Medical Student Association (AMSA)
- American Medical Women’s Association (AMA)
- Anesthesiology Interest Group
- Asian Pacific American Medical Student Association (APAMSA)
- Bioethics Interest Group
- Biomedical Innovation Club
- Bobcat Community Health Alliance
- Cheshire Wellness Fridays
- Dermatology Interest Group
- ENT-Surgery Interest Group
- Family Medicine Interest Group
- Global Public Health Interest Group
- Gold Humanism Honor Society (GHHS)
- Healthcare VITALS
- Hematology-Oncology Interest Group
- Human Health and Climate Change
- Human Trafficking Prevention Project
- Infectious Disease Interest Group
- Internal Medicine Interest Group
- Interprofessional Anatomy
- Interprofessional Emergency Medicine Interest Group (IEMIG)
- Interprofessional OB/GYN Interest Group
- Jewish Medical Student Association
- LMSA Latino Medical Student Association
- Medical Spanish
- Medical Students for Choice
- Military Medicine Interest Group
- Netter Alternative Breaks
- Netter Bible Study
- Netter Life Style Medicine
- Netter Notes
- Netter Pride Alliance
- Netter Visual Arts Society
- Neurology Interest Group
- Ophthalmology Interest Group
- Orthopedic Interest Group
- Pediatric Interest Group
- Peer Fellows
- Primary Care Progress
- Psychiatry Interest Group
- Radiology Interest Group
- SAFE (Scrubs Addressing the Firearm Epidemic) Interest Group
- Student National Medical Association (SNMA)
- Surgery Interest Group
- Wilderness Medicine Interest Group
Milestones
We support and celebrate the many accomplishments of our students — from the first day of their medical school journey to their last.
At the White Coat Ceremony, we welcome our newest members of the Frank H. Netter MD School of Medicine. On this euphoric day, the university and School of Medicine leadership join your family and friends as you receive your white coat and stethoscope and celebrate the beginning of your studies. The coat symbolizes your first step on the road to becoming a physician.
To bookend your medical school experience, the School of Medicine celebrates each graduating class on Match Day, when residencies are revealed. Few occasions are as significant in the life of a future physician, and you can be sure Quinnipiac treats it with the importance it deserves.
Learn more about Match Day
Commencement isn’t an end, but a beginning. This is a day to commemorate the hard work and sacrifice you’ve put in over your time in the program, and look ahead with excitement to the career that awaits you. When you walk off the stage that day in May with your MD diploma, you carry on a tradition of excellence that began with our inaugural Class of 2017.
Health and Wellness
Sometimes the most difficult health problems to confront may be your own. That’s why we’re as committed to meeting your physical and mental health needs as you are to meeting the needs of those you’ll treat one day. You’ll have access to comprehensive counseling and wellness services through a network of qualified external partners.
Resources include two confidential and voluntary counseling and referral services. One is provided by phone while another service is provided in person, in one of three local practices. These services are free of charge to all medical students, and the service by phone is also available to your family members. These services can help you overcome day-to-day challenges that can easily snowball and disrupt your work.
“It’s important to set aside time to study, but also to take care of your own well-being. What’s great about the faculty here is that they help you find balance so that you have time to work on the things you need to do, but also have plenty of time so that you’re happy and healthy.” - Jennifer Umeugo MD'17
In addition, each student interest group commits to organizing at least one wellness event per year. Events range from stress-buster events and yoga to art studio sessions, reflection sessions, movie nights and more.
Student Affairs
The Student Affairs Office is available to help students with many aspects of their medical school experience, including academics, career planning and integrating students into the medical school community.
Visit Us
Center for Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences
North Haven Campus
370 Bassett Road, North Haven
Email Us
SOMstudentaffairs@qu.edu
Mailing Address
Quinnipiac University School of Medicine
Office of Student Affairs (NH-MED)
275 Mount Carmel Avenue
Hamden, Connecticut 06518
