Alumni Affairs
The Office of Alumni Affairs and the Medical Alumni Association, which consists of more than 24,000 highly trained physicians and researchers, provide support and mentorship to medical students from the day they are accepted and throughout their medical careers. Exclusive Wayne State School of Medicine merchandise is also available to purchase online for pickup and nationwide shipping.
Collaboration
Since 2004, the Post Baccalaureate/Black Medical Association Steering Committee has assisted the Post Baccalaureate Program and BMA students with academic, financial and mentorship support.
The committee has co-sponsored the Kountz/Callender/Drew Transplant Symposium with the Detroit Minority Organ Tissue Transplant and Education Program Foundation, Gift of Life Michigan, University of Michigan Transplant Program, Henry Ford Health Centers, Ascension Health Centers and the WSU School of Medicine Division of Medical Education.
The committee also sponsored the Dr. Joseph Ferguson (the first African American graduate of the school in in 1869) Symposium on African American Male Health and the Dr. Marjorie Peebles Meyers (the first African American female graduate in 1943) Symposium on African American Women's Health in collaboration with the Detroit Medical Society.
Other sponsorships include:
- The 50th anniversary celebrations of the Post Baccalaureate Program and the Black Medical Association, in collaboration with the Office of Diversity and Inclusion.
- MCAT Prep Course, in collaboration with the Detroit Medical Society, Office of Diversity and Inclusion and the Division of Medical Education.
- The school's Celebrating Diversity Exhibit: The History of the Black Alumni of the Wayne State University School of Medicine, with the Vera Shiffman Medical Library.