This is a 6-session student-led support group for School of Medicine BIPOC students, open to all SOM students, with 2 MHT clinicians serving as host facilitators. In this supportive space, students come as they are, share mutual support, and foster community. Students build tools to navigate academic and professional stressors, cope with anxiety, process issues rooted in systemic oppression, decrease impostor feelings, and process other student-lead topics. This group is open to registered BioSci PhD/MS, MSPA, and MD students. Group sessions are both virtual and in-person

This group is held on Thursdays 8:30-9:30 AM, starting January 30, 2025. Sessions will be held via Zoom and in-person. Meeting dates for fall quarter are 1/30, 2/6, 2/13, 2/20, 2/27, and 3/6. Sessions 2/6, 2/20, and 3/6 will be in-person .

A meeting with a facilitator is required to join this group. You can sign up on the" on Vaden Portal rosters, in the "Groups and Workshops" section. A facilitator will reach out to you to schedule a pre-group meeting.

This group is hosted by Mariko Sweetnam, LCSW and Isela Garcia White, LCSW.