Interested in starting your own student group?
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Active Student Groups
Interested in starting your own student group?
Please complete the application form. Contact the CMSA if you have any questions.
Active Student Groups
The Women’s Heart Health Club aims to engage medical students in meaningful advocacy and clinical learning focused on women’s cardiovascular disease - an underrecognized yet leading cause of death in women globally. Through educational events, case-based discussions, and partnerships with the national Wear Red Canada campaign, this group aims to provide a unique platform for medical students to get involved in advancing women’s heart health.
Contact: [email protected]
The purpose of this group is to empower women to explore and engage in various surgical and/or medical careers. As women face significant and unique barriers throughout their medical careers, we hope this club will be able to provide mentorship, camaraderie, and opportunities for women choosing to achieve their professional and personal goals in surgery and medicine.
Contact: [email protected]
The Welcome Project addresses health inequities faced by refugee populations while fostering dialogue on newcomer care. We connect medical students with newcomer youth through mentorship, volunteering, and research opportunities. Our initiatives include workshops on bias and cultural sensitivity, guest lectures, youth-focused social events, and health literacy sessions. Our goal is to create space for relationship-building, cultural exchange, and community engagement where students and newcomers learn, grow, and lead together.
Contact: [email protected]
UV&Me is a community, service-based organization whose mission is to reduce the burden of skin cancer by delivering interactive educational presentations on sun safety to children and adolescents in their K-12 school classrooms. Members will first undergo in-service training covering the fundamentals of skin cancer and its prevention. Members will strive to not only educate but also to motivate youth to protect their skin from sun damage by adopting a sun-safe lifestyle. In reflection, members will discuss and evaluate their service experiences, with the goal of maximizing their communication skills and effectiveness.
Contact: [email protected]
The Medical Students for Gender and Sexual Diversity (abb. GSD) are committed to providing opportunities for medical students and physicians to learn more about 2SLGBTQ+ health and advocating for greater inclusivity within the medical school curriculum. We strive to foster a sense of community for queer medical students and ensure that future physicians are well-equipped to provide excellent, compassionate care to members of the 2SLGBTQ+ community.
Contact: [email protected]
The SRC is an initiative aimed at providing accessible, quality healthcare for Calgary's underserved populations. With physician and student volunteers delivering primary care services, it aims to increase access to medical care, provide disease management and preventative medicine, health counselling and education, social and community services, while training medical students in the delivery of primary care services.
Contact: [email protected]
The PHPMIG exists to enhance students' understanding of the role of physicians in Public Health (PH) and increase their exposure to the specialty. We seek to provide opportunities to engage with PH physicians in various specialties, enabling students interested in the field to become more informed about what a career in PH entails and for those interested in other specialties to better understand the role of their future colleagues, strengthening collaboration.
Contact: [email protected]
Mass Gathering Medicine Calgary (MGM Calgary) is a student-led organization at the University of Calgary dedicated to providing hands-on experiences in event and community medicine. Founded in 2012 and inspired by the original MGM initiative at the University of British Columbia, the club connects medical students with opportunities to volunteer at festivals, sporting events, and large community gatherings. Our mission is to promote learning through real-world experience, strengthen interdisciplinary collaboration, and foster community engagement. Volunteers gain practical medical and teamwork skills in dynamic, fast-paced environments while contributing to public safety and well-being. Guided by our core values of Positivity, Interdisciplinary, and Community, MGM Calgary embraces the energy of event culture, emphasizing teamwork, inclusivity, and a growth mindset. We encourage members to embody the principles of Peace, Love, Unity, and Respect (PLUR) in their service. Whether you are interested in emergency response, prehospital care, or community health, MGM Calgary offers a supportive environment to learn, connect, and make a meaningful impact at the heart of the city’s most exciting events.
Contact: [email protected]
Students for Integrated Training in Community Health (STITCH) is a student-led interest group that aims to connect medical students with members of the community and community organizations. We offer medical students opportunities to expand their knowledge of community health through experiential learning. We spend time in the community with organizations to learn about, listen to, see, and visit with people we will one day serve through our careers in medicine. Our goal is to give students more consistent opportunities to learn about community-based resources and populations through meaningful service, connection, and understanding. We offer both one-time and longitudinal volunteer opportunities.
Contact: [email protected]
SHINE is a student run group that focuses on bridging the gap between public health and medicine. Students in SHINE are involved in developing, implementing and evaluating research or community projects by partnering with community-based organizations/ services and local public schools.
Contact: [email protected]
The GHC is a student-led interest group that aims to contribute additional global health learning, advocacy projects, and skill building to existing curricula for students working with underserved populations on a local and international scale.
Contact: [email protected]
The Environmental Health Interest Group seeks to increase awareness about the health implication of climate change. Through curriculum development, speaker events, collaborations and advocacy opportunities we hope to increase students knowledge on the interdependence of environmental and human health, and articulate the role of medical students and future physicians in climate advocacy.
Contact: [email protected]
The Disability Inclusion & Advocacy Group aims to create a safe space for medical students and physicians with disabilities (both physical and mental) to share their experiences and resources. Furthermore, this group aspires to enhance disability education, inclusion, and advocacy, in conjunction with community allies. Please note, disclosure of disability or non-disability is completely voluntary at all times for this group.
Contact: [email protected]
The Association of South Asian Health Advocates (ASHA) was founded by medical students to confront health disparities and promote culturally responsive care within South Asian communities. We promote health equity through advocacy, mentorship, and education rooted in lived experience. ASHA creates space for South Asian medical students to connect, reflect, and grow as future leaders in medicine. We aim to amplify South Asian voices in healthcare through future mentorship events, panels, and community outreach—addressing stigma, health myths, and systemic barriers. Students of all backgrounds are welcome to join us in building inclusive, culturally responsive care.
Contact: [email protected]
Apple a Day is a health and wellness presentation designed by medical students for elementary school students using evidence-based guidelines. The presentation explores aspects of physical, mental, and nutritional wellness with a focus on inclusivity and culturally and socially aware messaging. By presenting the program in local elementary schools, Apple a Day provides medical students the opportunity to engage with children and teachers in their communities.
Contact: [email protected]
Students for Antimicrobial Stewardship Society (SASS) is a student-led national organization dedicated to raising awareness of antimicrobial stewardship and resistance across Canada. Founded by medical students, we support a multidisciplinary approach to stewardship through collaboration with students from health professional programs including Dentistry, Medicine, Nursing, Pharmacy, and Veterinary Medicine. We represent students regarding antimicrobial stewardship at the national and international level, interfacing with industry, medical organizations, educational institutions, and governments.
Contact: [email protected]
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Premier Danielle Smith
Office of the Premier
307 Legislature Building
10800 – 97 Avenue
Edmonton, Alberta T5K 2B6
CC: The Alberta Medical Association
Dear Premier,
We, the Calgary Medical Students’ Association and the University of Alberta’s Medical Students’ Association, are writing to express our deep concern over announcements that your government will seek to expand private-pay options and bolster a parallel private healthcare system in Alberta. We stand with the Canadian Medical Association, Canadian Doctors for Medicare, and Friends of Medicare in asking you to reconsider this proposal. A two-tiered healthcare system will create severe inequities for those who cannot pay for access.
One of the five pillars of Canadian healthcare is accessibility — meaning every person deserves the same level of care regardless of socioeconomic status, complexity of medical needs, or ability to pay. This proposed system would pre-discriminate, allowing those with higher income or better insurance to move ahead of others. The most vulnerable — the elderly, unhoused, and critically ill children — are left without the care they need in a two-tiered system.
Longer waits for marginalized groups lead to more expensive healthcare overall. Kidney stones become larger and harder to treat, joints become more complex to replace, and expensive emergency room visits rise. These costs burden taxpayers. Meanwhile, the private tier introduces new co-pays, premiums, and interest charges.
Alberta is facing a significant health-human resource crisis. We need every healthcare worker we can train and recruit. Splitting our already limited workforce across public and private tiers only worsens shortages. In Quebec, after introducing a private system, the public system lost over 500 family physicians, with remaining doctors stretched thin. Quebec now accounts for over 70% of unfilled residency seats in Canada. This is not a future Alberta can afford.
As the next generation of physicians, we urge the UCP government to consider the long-term consequences for your constituents — many of whom will not have the means to access private medicine. We ask that you halt the expansion of private pay and instead strengthen our public healthcare system. A two-tiered system is not one we want to graduate into or practice in.
Sincerely,
Alberta’s Medical Students
The Calgary Medical Students’ Association
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The University of Alberta’s Medical Students’ Association
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