The Office of Recruitment and Multicultural Affairs (ORMA), located in TMEC Suite 244 with the Office of Student Affairs, is responsible for recruiting and providing supportive services to students who are economically disadvantaged and/or from groups underrepresented in medicine and dentistry. ORMA also serves as a resource for the LGBT student community.  ORMA sponsors the Pre-Matriculation Summer Program, an 8-week summer program that exposes incoming minority students to research and life at HMS and HSDM, and sponsors the Harold Amos Society's monthly scientific and clinical talks . The Faculty Associate Dean for Student Affairs, the Faculty Assistant Dean for Student Affairs and the staff of ORMA are available to students for personal as well as academic counseling.

ORMA also coordinates monthly meetings of the Inter-Society Multicultural Fellows Committee (MCFC). The MCFC is a group of faculty and students from all societies charged with facilitating diversity initiatives and awareness in the HMS medical community.

Office of Recruitment and Multicultural Affairs
TMEC 244
Phone: 617.432.2159
Fax: 617.432.3912