Undergraduate Course Catalog Information contained on these pages should be considered out of date. This official body, composed of the presidents and representatives of the various classes and schools, provides the administration and faculty with student opinion on matters affecting student welfare and initiates and supervises extracurricular activities. Six national honor societies have chapters on the Medical Center campus. Undergraduate membership is open to the top 10 percent of each discipline in the health-related professions school and is based on exceptional scholarship and leadership. Membership is granted to faculty with three years' academic experience for distinguished scholarship and service to allied health education and to alumni for exceptional leadership and achievement in allied health.
Honorary membership is granted to eminent leaders in support of the allied health professions.
Alumnus membership is granted for distinctive achievement in the art and practice of scientific medicine and honorary membership to eminent leaders in medicine and allied sciences. Membership requirements include noteworthy achievement as an original investigator in a pure or applied science. Members are selected on the basis of high scholarship and good character. Membership in the society is by invitation to undergraduate and graduate nursing students, nursing faculty, and professional nurses who have demonstrated superior scholarship, leadership, and nursing achievements. Students at the Medical Center who qualify are eligible for membership in this national honorary scholastic fraternity installed on the Oxford campus in 1959.