UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA
SINCE 1975
ABOUT ALPHA EPSILON DELTA
"Alpha Epsilon Delta is the National Health Preprofessional Honor Society dedicated to the encouragement and recognition of excellence in preprofessional health scholarship. Our Society welcomes all students engaged in the pursuit of a profesional development, provides a forum for students with common interests, and extends a program of service to benefit the college/univeristy community."
Alpha Epsilon Delta at USF is a pre-health professional honors society dedicated to connecting students on the USF campus with common interests in the healthcare world. We provide our members with opportunities to help them succeed in their future careers, such as volunteering and service, philanthropy, social gatherings, and networking with healthcare professionals.
We meet biweekly and have a guest speaker at most of our meetings. Past speakers have included MD and DO doctors, pharmacists, medical school admissions counselors, Princeton Review teachers, and more!
We also hold workshops to help our members prepare for their graduate and professional school careers such as MCAT/DAT/PCAT workshops and CPR/First Aid training.
We are an honor society, so scholarship is very important to our core values as an organization. All of our members are strong students who support one another to make sure we all succeed.
Lastly, we are a closeknit group that provides lifelong friendships to members. We regularly hold social events to facilitate the building of friendships throughout the organization.
OUR HISTORY
On April 28, 1926, fifteen premedical students at the University of Alabama met with Dr. Jack Montgomery, premedical adviser 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. Today, there are nearly 200 national chapters of Alpha Epsilon Delta, and AED headquarters are located at Texas Christian University.
You can read more about the national history of Alpha Epsilon Delta here.