School of Medicine Student Organizations

SMSA supports a large variety of student organizations within the School of Medicine through funding, resources, and advertising. Stanford medical students currently participate more than 40 different student groups. The focus of these groups, ranging from service to specialty interests, are extremely diverse and offer a wide variety of activities for students to engage in outside of the classroom. All groups are eligible to apply for programmatic funding through the annual SMSA student group funding process that occurs in the fall.

Below is a list of student organizations within the SoM:

• Speciality Interest Groups
• Asian Pacific-American Medical Student Assocation (APAMSA)
• Cardinal Free Clinics (CFCs)
  
• Flu Crew
• Health Career Collaborative (HCC)
• Health Policy Collective
  
• Latino Medical Student Association (LMSA)
• LGBTQ-Meds
• Medical Students For Choice (MSFC)
• Medical Students with Disability and Chronic Illness (MSDCI)
• Organization for Global Health (OGH)
• Primary Care Progress (PCP)
• Stanford American Indigenous Medical Students (SAIMS)
• Stanford Health Justice Coalition (SHJC)
• Stanford Medical School Christian Fellowship (SMSCF)
• Stanford Medicine Arts Collective (SMAC)
• Stanford Muslim Medical Association (SMMA)
• Student National Medical Association (SNMA)
• Stanford Climate and Health
  
• Stanford Women Association of Physician Scientists (SWAPS)
• SCCMA and Stanford Transformative Experience in Medicine (SSTEM)
  
• Women and Medicine (WAM)

Why you should register a student organization with Stanford

Registering a student organization through the office of Student Activities and Leadership (SAL) provides many privileges, such as access to peer advisors and use of the University's name and facilities, but perhaps most importantly SAL provides organizations with banking capabilities. This gives organizations a bank account for year-to-year holding of funds as well as internal processing of reimbursements for student members. Registration with SAL is also required to qualify for departmental funding and to be eligible for Annual Funding from SMSA.

How to register/re-register a student organization with Stanford

Organizations must register annually with SAL. The regular deadline is the Friday after Commencement. Organizations who have not registered will be inactive for the summer. Late registration opens in September and the deadline is the Sunday at the end of the third week of fall quarter.

There are also options for inactive organizations to be renewed.

Complete details about the registration process with SAL can be found here. There are three deadlines each year for new groups, typically in week three or four of the quarter. Approvals take 3-4 weeks. IMPORTANT: Until approval is received, use of the Stanford name, event planning, public meetings and fundraising is not permitted. Such activity could jeopardize the status of your application.