Student Organizations

Throughout the 1970s and 80s, student organizations were created by students to keep them in contact with others from their respective communities, to discuss issues they faced as medical students, and to address health disparities. Some of the student organizations founded at the time were: the Black Health Organization, the Boricua Health Organization, the Hamilton-Hunt Association (focused on women in medicine and named after the first woman to earn a medical degree in the United States and the first woman to attend classes at HMS), the Maimonides Medical Society (focused on Jewish medical students), and the Third World Caucus.