Frank H. Netter MD School of Medicine Student Life

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.

Upon matriculation, you’ll be assigned an academic adviser, as well as a second-year “Big Sib” who will help you transition into your first year of medical school. These relationships will provide a source of guidance, mentoring and friendship that you can count on over the next four years.

During years three and four, you’ll work with career advisers who will help you find the right specialty, plan your clinical years and navigate your residency application process. They’ll gauge your career goals against your personal skills and aptitudes while specialty advisers will offer their guidance on skill and lifestyle considerations for specific areas of interest.

Our learning communities, faculty and staff provide all of the support and resources you’ll need from your first day all the way to graduation, placing you on a path toward a long and meaningful medical career.

Second-year medical student Amber Vargas, MD ’25, played a large role in planning and coordinating the Latinx Medical Students Association’s Fall 2022 House of Delegates.

This regional conference, in which executive members from every medical school with an LMSA chapter in the Northeast region were in attendance, was hosted at Quinnipiac’s Frank H. Netter MD School of Medicine earlier this semester.

“It was truly a wonderful event,” said Vargas. “It was simply amazing to have so many smart, successful, happy and humble Hispanic/Latinx individuals in one room. We had students, faculty, clinicians, researchers and guest speakers from different cultural backgrounds, different institutions and different parts of the country.”

“LMSA is a flourishing organization working on creating support for Hispanic/Latinx individuals interested in medicine,” explained Vargas. “I'm from the Bronx, where ‘minorities’ are the majority, but I never identified as a ‘minority’ until leaving the Bronx. I am so grateful for finding a home away from home in LMSA. It's nice to form connections with faculty and students who understand Hispanic/Latinx cultures.”

Vargas has interests in mentoring, building community and promoting leadership. To plan the conference, she regularly met with student affairs and coordinated a sponsorship with Hartford Healthcare. She said that this is just the beginning of an ongoing partnership between LMSA and Hartford Healthcare, as they plan to be involved with future events and sponsor future scholarship opportunities.

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Rare Disease Day is a global event that serves to raise awareness of over 7,000 identified rare diseases. Although each disease on its own is rare, together they affect approximately 1-in-10 Americans. Since 2015, the Frank H. Netter MD School of Medicine at Quinnipiac University has hosted the Rare Disease Day Symposium, providing an opportunity for patients, family members and researchers to share their stories, their research and insight into the development of novel therapeutics. Our mission is to promote interprofessional healthcare education and awareness and advocacy for the rare disease community with an event that has also become a powerful learning opportunity for students and professionals highlighting the unique needs of individuals affected by rare disorders.