Student Affairs
Student Involvement
We encourage students to continue participation in USF student organizations and student government and support the use of video-teleconferencing to facilitate participation in these groups. A wide variety of USF student interest groups and organizations are available for participation.
Please contact Lerren Bradley-Tyler, at MDstudentaffairs@usf.edu with questions related to student organizations.
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Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society
- The Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society is a national society that was initiated in 1902 and celebrates the scholastic achievements of medical students as well as Alumni and faculty who have distinguished themselves in their professional careers.
- Membership in AΩA may be attained as a medical student, resident, fellow, faculty member, alumni, clinician, or distinguished leader in medicine. Each school may elect up to 20% of the graduating class of students, up to 25 residents/fellows, up to 10 faculty, and three to five alumni, who, based on merit, demonstrate the characteristics of excellent physicians in alignment with AΩA’s mission and values.
- The characteristics of excellent physicianship will be identified by each school; examples include trustworthiness, character, caring, knowledge, scholarship, proficiency in the doctor-patient relationship, leadership, compassion, empathy, altruism, and servant leadership. Nominees must be in good academic standing and must not have any professionalism concerns. For more information about AOA, please click HERE!
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Barness-Behnke Chapter of the Gold Humanism Honor Society
- The Gold Humanism Honor Society is a national society that was initiated in 2002 and supported by the Arnold P. Gold Foundation; for more information about the Gold Foundation please click here. Those selected demonstrate outstanding care and compassion for others. The students, faculty, and residents inducted are regarded as compassionate leaders, role models in patient-centered care for other students, residents, and physicians, and viewed as change agents in medicine.
- Those eligible are medical students in their 4th year, residents, and role-model physician teachers. Approximately 16 to 20 percent of the graduating class are elected. There is a peer nomination process that has been externally validated and is based on criteria designed to identify students recognized by their peers as demonstrating exceptional humanistic characteristics.
- For more information contact our chapter advisor, Kira Zwygart, MD at kkz@usf.edu.
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Robert A. Good Honor Society
- The Robert A. Good Honor Society (RGHS) was initiated at USF in 2017 and seeks to recognize medical students, faculty, and alumni who have demonstrated exemplary commitment to improving health outcomes through research, innovation, and scholarly endeavors. Potential applicants must be in good academic and professional standing reflecting the highest ideals of the profession of medicine.
- Students who fulfill the application criteria are encouraged to self-nominate by completing an online application, providing a CV, a personal statement and one letter of support. Membership is competitive with anticipated maximum inductees no greater than 20% of a given graduating class.
- For more information please click here.
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Student Organizations
- Advocacy for Survivors
- American Medical Association
- American Medical Women's Association
- Anesthesiology Interest Group
- Arts in Health at USF Morsani College of Medicine
- Asian American and Pacific Islander Mentorship
- Asian Pacific American Medical Student Association
- Association of Medical Science Graduate Students (AMSGS)
- Association of Physical Therapy Students
- Association of Physician Assistant Students
- Athletes in Medicine
- Athletic Training Students' Association
- BRIDGE Healthcare Clinic
- Cardiothoracic Surgery Interest Group
- Christian Medical and Dental Association
- Class of 2026 Class Council at the University of South Florida Morsani College of Medicine
- College of Medicine Allocation Committee
- College of Medicine Wellness Council
- Compassionate Companions
- Crisis Response International: Student Interest Society
- Dermatology Interest Group
- Doctors Raging Against Gravity
- EdByMed
- Emergency Medicine Interest Group
- Family Medicine Interest Group at USF
- Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender and Allied Medical Student Association
- Global Surgery Student Alliance Healthcare Improvement Group
- Infectious Disease Interest Group
- Interdisciplinary Oncology Interest Group
- Internal Medicine Interest Group
- International Health Service Collaborative
- Interventional Radiology Student Interest Group
- Jewish Medical Students' Association Margins of Medicine
- MCOM Cardiology Interest Group
- MCOM Class Council - Class of 2024
- MCOM Collegia
- MCOM Disability Coalition
- MCOM Graduate and Postdoctoral Affairs
- MCOM OSA, Engagement and Wellbeing
- MCOM Running Club
- MCOM Student Council
- MCOM Student Council on Diversity and Inclusion
- MCOM 2025 Class Council
- Medical Ethics and Integrity Group
- Medical Mandarin
- Medical Music Club
- Medical Spanish Club
- Medical Students for Choice
- Medicine in Motion
- Military Medicine Interest Group
- Mindfulness and Meditation in Medicine
- Morsani College of Medicine Green Club
- Muslim Student Doctor Association
- Neurological Surgery Interest Group
- Obstetrics and Gynecology Interest Group
- Orthopedics Interest Group
- Otolaryngology Interest Group
- Pathology Organization for Students
- Pediatrics Interest Group
- Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Interest Group
- Plastic Surgery Interest Group
- Point-of-Care Ultrasound Interest Group
- Preventive and Integrative Medicine Interest Group
- Project Hillsborough Health
- Project World Health
- Psychiatry Interest Coalition
- Public Health Interest Group
- Quality of Life Club
- Radiation Oncology Interest Group
- Radiology Interest Group
- Sports Medicine Interest Group
- Student Interest Group in Neurology
- Student Interest Group in Ophthalmology
- Student National Medical Association
- Student Physicians for Social Responsibility
- Surgical Interest Group - CORE
- Surgical Outcomes Research Team
- Syrian American Medical Society at USF
- Tampa Bay Street Medicine
- The Pulse Student Review
- Toast MEDsters
- Urology Interest Group
- USF Health Shared Student Services
- Vascular Surgery Interest Group
- Virtual Reality in Medicine Special Interest Group
- Wilderness Medicine Interest Group
- Women in Surgery Interest Group
- YYC AfterHours
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