Alpha Epsilon Delta

The University of Memphis Pre Health Honor Society

 

Alpha Epsilon Delta at the University of Memphis

Alpha Epsilon Delta is the National Health Preprofessional Honor Society dedicated to the encouragement and recognition of excellence in preprofessional health scholarship, including medicine, dentistry, veterinary, and others. The Society welcomes ALL students engaged in the pursuit of a professional healthcare career. AED offers opportunities for intellectual and professional development, provides a forum for students with common interests, and extends a program of service to benefit the college/university community.

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Alpha Epsilon Delta

surgeryFellow AED/Pre-Health Students: Welcome to the AED website for the University of Memphis. AED is a national organization that dedicates its efforts to helping exceptional undergraduate pre-health students matriculate into their respective professional endeavors.

This organization serves as a networking hub for students that are working toward the same goals, dreams, and futures. For the 2008-09 AED group at The University of Memphis we have some very informative and helpful events planned.

Stay tuned for more information regarding future events. In addition, congratulations to all the new initiates you are joining a diverse group of your fellow peers.

This site is currently under construction and will be updated biweekly by our new officer Nickalus Khan.

--Bhumin Patel (AED Vice President)

History of AED:

On April 28, 1926, fifteen premedical students at the University of Alabama met with Dr. Jack Montgomery, premedical advisor and professor of organic chemistry, to formalize the organization of a new premedical honor society. Baylor University, Samford University, The University of Texas, and the University of South Carolina established chapters in 1928/29.

At the first national convention at the University of Alabama on April 18, 1930, ten members representing five chapters and one petitioning group were in attendance. From these modest beginnings, Alpha Epsilon Delta (AED) has today become the world's largest Honor Society exclusively serving premedical education, with a membership exceeding 144,000 in 186 chapters.

In 1949, AED was incorporated in the State of Michigan. In February 1962, the Society was reincorporated in the District of Columbia as a nonprofit, educational organization.

To be eligible for AED membership, students must have:

  • completed at least one year of pre-health prerequisite course work
  • a minimum overall grade point average (GPA) of 3.25
  • a minimum GPA of 3.20 in all math and science courses completed

All students who meet the above eligibility criteria are invited to apply for membership in Alpha Epsilon Delta (AED), the National Premedical Honor Society.Application forms are available in Scates Hall, Room 107.