Medicats is a student-run organization at the University of Kentucky. It was created to help fellow prospective medical school students gain valuable insights into what they can expect as a medical student and physician by listening to the real-world experiences of doctors and then engaging with them in-person or online.

Discover Medicats!

Current Activities

We have weekly meetings during fall and spring semesters on Thursday evenings. If that week's physician is local, we meet in-person on campus. If the physician is not in Lexington, we use Zoom.

Future Efforts

We are expanding the scope of our member support by contacting medical or health care related service organizations to help our Medicats gain valuable shadowing/volunteering time.

In-Person Meetings

Learn from physicians in-person on UK's campus during our weekly meetings and engage with them to ensure your questions are answered.

Community Service

Medicats is deeply involved in service across our community. Our members have volunteered at God's Food Pantry, Miracle League, RMHC, Eastern State Hospital and various other locations!

Social Gatherings

From time to time Medicats members meet outside of academic and learning-based gatherings so that we can get to know each other better.

Grow Through Sharing

We are students interested in health care careers, so it's a great opportunity or us to learn from each other, share successes, and more.