Today, the average medical student is saddled with $100,000 in debt, so financial support is crucial. Annual dues payments help make it possible for the JHM&SA to fund a number of medical student scholarships each year.

Your dues also enrich the lives of medical students during their time in East Baltimore by funding a variety of programs and activities.

From our first week, when we arrived as fresh medical students and bashfully met our distinguished alumni; to our days before walking onto the wards, as we collected our pagers with a nervous excitement; to our celebrations at Match Day and Graduation, the JHM&SA has always been there for the medical students of Johns Hopkins, sharing and supporting us during our most precious times. We know that we can always count on the JHM&SA to guide us and look out for our best interests. Thank you JHM&SA!

- Herman Bagga, Former MSS President, Class of 2008

The Medical Student Society
The MSS represents the medical student body to faculty and administration and organizes social and educational activities.

JHM&SA Stethoscopes
The first-year medical students are presented with an engraved stethoscope, known as one of the universal symbols of being a doctor.

On October 5, 2011, the Class of 2015 received engraved stethoscopes, presented to them by the Johns Hopkins Medical & Surgical Association. Speakers included Edward Miller, M.D. Dean and CEO, Johns Hopkins Medicine; David Nichols, M.D., Vice Dean for Education; Thomas Koenig, M.D., School of Medicine Class of 1989; David Hellmann, M.D., School of Medicine Class of 1977 and Ralph Hruban, M.D., School of Medicine Class of 1985.

Heart Healthy Snack Break
On Valentine's Day, the JHM&SA hosted a table overflowing with heart healthy snacks in the Armstrong Medical Education Building. More than 100 students visited the table and entered a raffle to win a signed copy of Heart 411, a new book co-authored by Marc Gillinov, Med '88.