Student Organizations

Students of Saint James School of Medicine are given an opportunity to create and expand existing organizations and associations. We are pleased to help them in those ventures with financial and organizational support.

Adventure-Bonaire Club
This club allows students to take part in many of the activities Bonaire is known for. Students can try scuba diving, kayaking, hiking, biking, marathons, windsurfing, parasailing, boating and many more.

AMSA SJSM
The American Medical Students Association or AMSA is a student-governed, national organization committed to representing the concerns of physicians-in-training. With a membership of more than 67,000 medical students, premedical students, interns, residents and practicing physicians from across the country, AMSA continues its commitment to improving medical training and the nation's health. At AMSA, activism is a way of life. Student idealism is transformed into meaningful public service, innovation and institutional change. Become a member of the AMSA-SJSM Chapter and transform your passion into action and meaningful change.

Doctors of Tomorrow (DOT) Club
This club allows our students to venture into different aspects of becoming a physician. Students will engage in activities that will be ideal for future doctors such as helping students with their school work, excelling in different aspects of their work, USMLE Step 1 preps, reviewing, taking part in volunteer work, tutoring, networking, local community activities, event planning and many other things that will be useful for residency placement and self growth.

ICE - International Cultural Education
This club will allow our students to share and explore their and other cultures. Promote awareness of different cultures and world issues with a common goal of bringing cultures together and making it accessible to all. Students can take part in different cultural events through different activities.

Alpha Sigma Phi (Α Σ Φ)
Alpha Sigma Phi (commonly abbreviated to Alpha Sig) is a social fraternity with 68 active chapters, colonies, and interest groups. Founded at Yale in 1845, it is the 11th oldest fraternity in the United States. This social fraternity promotes networking amongst students. The point of this club is to keep all the students in a network and promote unity which will help greatly in the field of medicine.

Student Government Association (SGA)
The goal of the SGA is to promote self-improvement, to address student problems in collaboration with the school administration, maintain good relations with the island community and the Government of Bonaire as well as organize recreational activities. Each semester, the student body elects a president, vice president, secretary and treasurer. Class SGA representatives are elected from semesters one through four and serve as SGA officers. The SGA sponsors student events like the welcome party for new students and health related projects for the island community. The officers meet regularly with the medical school administration to discuss student concerns and issues.

American Medical Student Association (AMSA)
It is the oldest and largest independent association of physicians-in-training in the United States. Today, AMSA is a student-governed, national organization committed to representing the concerns of physicians-in-training. With a membership of nearly 50,000 medical students, premedical students, interns, residents and practicing physicians from across the country, AMSA continues its commitment to improving medical training and the nation's health.  How is AMSA different from other organizations? When you join AMSA, you become part of a vital force of future physicians who believe that patients and health professionals are partners in the management of health care and that access to high-quality health care is a right and not a privilege. At AMSA, activism is a way of life. Student idealism is transformed into meaningful public service, innovation and institutional change.