At Yale School of Medicine, in close collaboration with faculty, you are encouraged to build your own paths and pursue your unique passions and interests, through mentors, opportunities for leadership and advocacy, special programs, and joint degrees. At YSM, you are part of a community of learners dedicated to each other, your patients, and society.

Throughout all of our medical education pursuits, Yale celebrates differences including across race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, mobility, neurodiversity, and socioeconomic background, and recognizes the value of bringing together people from diverse backgrounds in order to foster the best scientific innovation and to train the next generation of compassionate clinicians.