Medcon is the CMA’s weekend conference for Catholic pre-med students! The Catholic Medical Association recognizes that outreach to the next generation of Catholic physicians must begin by inspiring and encouraging those who are still discerning a vocation to health care. Perhaps now more than ever, Christ is calling young people to join His healing ministry, […]
By David Talarico This year’s Medical Student and Resident Boot Camp has reminded me that to be a Catholic in the field of medicine is a great gift. Coming off my first year of clinicals and preparing to enter my fourth year of medical school, I was feeling a bit drained after the ups and […]
By Isabella Contolini By my junior year of college I was fairly certain that God was calling me to become a Catholic physician, but I was terrified of having to do it alone. As a graduate of public school and a student at a very secular private university, I had no illusions about the […]
By Dr. Seth Chauhan Invitations change lives. In fact, all of salvation history is the story of God’s continual invitation for a deeper encounter with Himself. Saying “yes” to an invitation from Christ is often an invitation to an adventure. It usually requires some form of changing plans, leaving comfort behind or entering the unknown, […]
By Monika Barbara Potocki, M.D. I was a third-year medical student, and I was in a quandary. I had been fascinated by pregnancy since the moment I was told, at six years old, that there was a new life blossoming in a family friend’s tummy. As a high school student, I spent much of my […]
Register or Renew Your CMA Student Chapter for the 2023-2024 School Year! Novus Medicus is looking to update its database of school CMA chapters. If you are a member of a local CMA student group, please email Ashley Best, our Regional Director Committee Chair, at novusmedicus@cathmed.org to complete the application/renewal process and to connect your […]
The annual Hippocratic Oath Prayer Service and Banquet was held by the Society of Saints Cosmas and Damian student section along with the Nashville Guild of the Catholic Medical Association at the Cathedral of the Incarnation in Nashville Sept. 30. The event is an opportunity for medical students and guild members to come together to […]
The 92nd Annual Educational Conference saw the most medical students and residents in attendance to-date in large part thanks to the generous donations by CMA members to the Medical Student and Resident Education Fund. Eighty-two medical students and residents from all over the country spent three days in Phoenix, Arizona along-side physicians and health care […]
By Nadia Smtih The Catholic Medical Association Board announced the appointment of Dr. Jonathan Scrafford as the new chair of the Novus Medicus Committee, which supports the CMA Board and the national office by coordinating, inspiring, and overseeing the development of young members of the association. Novus Medicus is a rebranding of the Young […]
By Javier Mariscal When I signed up for the Catholic Medical Association’s Medical Student and Resident Boot Camp in Ave Maria, Florida, I was seeking answers and support. In my undergraduate years at Florida State University, I rediscovered the Catholicism of my youth, which I had previously naively dismissed as silly and antiquated. It […]