Students

To find a local chapter on your campus, and in your specialty, email corey.whittaker@cmda.org or melissa.carroll@cmda.org

A major focus of TCMDA is to help you while you are in school to connect with other Christians preparing for medical and dental careers. There are a variety of groups at UNC, Campbell, ECU, and Duke, some are focused more on fellowship, some more on discipleship. We also help connect students with faculty and other professionals to learn and even for mentoring opportunities.

If you are in a discipline that does not currently have a group, we’d be happy to help you get one started. These are all student-led groups, but we can help with communications, resources, and pizza! Because there is almost annual turnover in most of the programs, or students come and go from year to year with clinicals, rotations, and other requirements, we are continually raising up new leaders from year to year. If you’d like some Christian fellowship but are not into starting a group, and there is not a specialty group that applies to your field, feels free to join one across disciplines.

Most activities are lunch time gatherings every week or every other week. You can look up CMDA or TCMDA at your school or email our area director at corey.whittaker@cmda.org to get connected.

We also have monthly gatherings in the evenings through various programs, we offer local and foreign mission opportunities and we are here for you if you ever need help. Check the calendar page (link here) to keep up on all of our school based and area wide events and activities.

Currently we have groups at UNC in SOM, Dental and Pharmacy, at Duke SOM and PA and at Campbell SOM. We would like to add groups in nursing, OT, PT and NP. If you are involved in any of these programs and would like to help start a student ministry, please contact us.

Links for you

No cost Student membership

Student Leaders start here

Student Podcasts from CMDA 

Online Resources free for you!

TCMDA is working with the Theology, Ministry and Culture Initiative at Duke University. This is a unique 1 or 2 year program designed to help us think theologically about our medicine, our ethics and our lives in general. They also host retreats and on campus seminars. We encourage you to check it out!

The new CMDA Student Life App is a great resource with all kinds of ways to connect, learn and explore. You can also join CMDA as a student directly from the app! Download it for FREE today!

Looking for a church?

If you are new to the area and looking for a church, here are a few where we have members and students attending. We can't fully vouch for their theology but we believe they are generally solid churches. They vary in size, denomination and style. We encourage you to plug into a local church for worship, teaching and community.

All Saints Anglican Church

Blacknall Presbyterian (PCUSA)

Catch the Fire, Durham

Chapel Hill Bible Church (non-denom)

Christ Community Church, Chapel Hill (PCA)

Christ the King (EPC)

Christ Central, Durham (PCA)

Church of the Good Shepherd (PCA)

First Baptist, Durham (SBC)

The Summit Church (SBC)

Waypoint (SBC)

Oak City (Non-Denom)

City Well (Methodist)

New Hope (non-Denom)