About
The University of Arizona is a big place to be pre-health in. Medical Directive makes it smaller.
Why we exist
We've got freshmen who aren't sure medicine is the right call and seniors in the middle of applications, which sounds like it shouldn't work but mostly does.
Meetings are built around a speaker most weeks: a physician, a PA, an NP, someone from the College of Medicine. Then whatever announcements we have about shadowing spots and research openings. Outside of meetings we run volunteering days, socials, and mentor-mentee nights where you get paired with a med student.
Three pillars
What you get out of it.
Access
Getting in the room is the hard part.
Shadowing spots, research assistant positions, and speakers who'll take a real question. Most of it never gets posted anywhere public. You hear about it because someone in the club heard about it first.
Service
A lot of what we do is off campus.
Street medicine, Gospel Rescue Mission, Azara Branch. Some people show up for the hours and end up staying for other reasons. Either way we could use the help.
Mentorship
Everybody here was lost a year ago.
Mentor-mentee nights pair you with a medical student. Past that, the board has taken the same classes and made the same decisions recently enough to still remember them, so ask.