For partners + sponsors

Where healthcare's emerging decision-makers actually pay attention.

MDplus is a 501(c)(3) community of 5,000+ medical students, residents, and physicians at the cross-section of medicine and healthcare innovation. If your work touches that audience (for hiring, sponsorship, or co-built programs), this is the door.

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Who's actually here

The audience composition.

Targeted reach beats broad reach for almost every partner who comes to us. Here's the rough composition of MDplus today.

5,000+: physicians + med students
120+: medical schools represented
8: active verticals
14: regional chapters

Where members already work

Doximity
a16z Bio + Health
McKinsey
Bain
BCG
Anthropic
Flatiron Health
AlleyCorp
Roivant Sciences
Bessemer

Plus most major medical schools and residencies. The audience you're trying to reach probably already includes MDplus members.

Trusted by

The companies and orgs that have worked with us.

Partners across AI, venture, healthtech, pharma, and medical education. Many came in as a single sponsorship and stayed for the long-term relationship.

Past MDplus partners including Roivant Sciences, Flatiron, One Medical, Google, McKinsey & Company, a16z, Bessemer Venture Partners, AlleyCorp, Scale, Verily, and many more

Three ways to work with us

Pick the path that fits, or talk to us if you're unsure.

Each track has its own audience, its own products, and its own pricing logic. Most partner relationships start in one of the three and grow into a second over time.

Sponsor

Get in front of clinicians-to-decision-makers, before they become decision-makers.

Talk to us about sponsorship

Best fit for

Healthtech companies looking for clinical advisors, design partners, or early credibility
AI / data tooling companies building for clinical use cases
Investors and accelerators sourcing physician founders
Pharma + medical-device companies investing in clinician relationships

Specific things you can sponsor / use

Datathon Gold sponsorship
Named placement on our signature annual event: ~300 participants in 2025, peer-reviewed publication in JMIR Medical Education. Past Gold sponsors include Doximity and Inflo Health.
Catalyst cohort sponsorship
Named backer of a Catalyst program cohort. Current Catalyst sponsors include Anthropic, OpenEvidence, a16z Bio + Health, AlleyCorp, Chamber Cardio, Thalamus, Fabric, and Scrub Capital.
Innovation Challenge sponsorship
Underwrite a multi-week competition track in your domain (e.g., Roivant's 2021 Challenge, Vituity's EM Innovation Challenge). Winners get follow-up partnerships with the sponsor.
Featured fireside chat
Host a 1-hour conversation with members on something your team genuinely knows. Recent examples: Roon co-founders (August 2025), Offcall on generative AI in clinical practice.
Newsletter placement
Recurring or one-off placement in the MDplus newsletter (~3,000 subscribers, weekly). Used sparingly: usually one sponsor mention per issue, related to that week's content.
Vertical-specific sponsorship
Scope a sponsorship to a single vertical (AI & Data, VC, Biotech, Health Policy, Medical Devices, Consulting, Research, Design) for tighter audience match.

Hire

Hire physicians who already speak product, data, and clinical.

Talk to us about hiring

Best fit for

Healthtech startups hiring clinical product, clinical advisors, or founding-team clinicians
Health systems and academic centers hiring innovation, informatics, or industry-track roles
VC firms hiring physician investors, fellows, or scouts
Pharma / medical-device companies recruiting MSLs, KOLs, or clinical strategy

Specific things you can sponsor / use

Posting to #opportunities
Direct posting to our highest-volume Slack channel (573+ files of curated career opportunities, the org's primary internal job board). Reaches members actively browsing.
Member directory access
Search our member base by training stage, specialty, and area of interest. Used by partners building targeted outreach for senior or hard-to-fill roles.
Warm-intro program
For senior or sensitive roles, our team personally introduces you to 3–5 relevant members based on the role spec. Higher signal than a posting; we screen for fit on both sides.
Clinical advisory recruitment
Find your medical advisory board from a vetted, peer-validated pool. Common path for early-stage healthtech companies.
Recurring internship pipeline
Formalize a yearly intern source: annual cohort posting, scheduled coffee chats, structured application path through MDplus.

Partner

Co-create programs that put your work in front of the next generation of healthcare leaders.

Talk to us about a partnership

Best fit for

Educational platforms whose curriculum could embed inside MDplus programming
Other med-student / clinician orgs with overlapping audiences
Research institutes running clinician-facing initiatives
Conferences, training programs, and academic centers seeking program collaborators

Specific things you can sponsor / use

Embedded curriculum
Your educational content built into MDplus programming. Pillar VC's VC 101 is the model: a partner-built course now run as a recurring MDplus offering.
Joint research initiatives
Survey-based studies, white papers, datathon partnerships, leveraging member-generated data for peer-reviewed work. The 2025 JMIR Medical Education paper is one example.
Co-branded content
Podcast episodes, newsletter pieces, op-eds, and webinars co-produced with the partner. Past examples: MDplus × Offcall generative AI webinar, Nucleate Translate panel.
Cross-promotional partnerships
For orgs with overlapping audiences: mutual newsletter mentions, shared events, member-discount programs. Examples: AMSA, Sketchy, Simply Neuroscience.
Residency + institutional partnerships
Formal partnerships with residency programs, medical schools, and academic centers: joint chapters, curated resource sharing, recurring speaker exchanges.

Where we draw the line

What sponsorship is, and what it isn't.

MDplus is a community first. That changes the deal we offer partners. Some of this is the reason long-term partners stay; some of it is the reason a few self-disqualify early. Both are fine.

What partners do get

Provide visibility to a high-trust audience that opts in to engagement
Co-build programs and content that benefit members and your org
Offer curated talent pipelines and warm intros for hard-to-fill roles
Disclose sponsorship publicly at every event, in every cohort, on every co-branded piece

What partners don't get

Sell or transfer member contact lists to anyone, ever
Allow unsolicited outreach; members opt in to every event, AMA, or hiring conversation
Run promotional spam in our channels; the Slack moderates self-promotion strictly
Take a sponsor whose product or pitch doesn't actually serve the community

We protect the community's attention because that's the asset we're actually selling: to ourselves, to members, and to partners. A partner who'd rather we didn't protect it isn't the partner we're looking for.

FAQ

The questions we get asked first.

How do you measure ROI on a sponsorship?: Depends on the goal. For events, we share attendee counts, completion rates, and post-event survey data. For hiring, fill rates and time-to-hire. For brand sponsorships, newsletter open rates, podcast listens, and social-media reach. We're a small org so we keep this honest and proportional. No inflated dashboards.
We're an early-stage startup, not an established company. Can we still partner?: Yes. Several of our long-running partners started as small healthtech startups (Roon, Offcall, Inflo Health all engaged with MDplus pre-Series A). For early-stage companies we tend to structure in-kind partnerships, founder fireside chats, or scoped vertical sponsorships that fit early-stage budgets when alignment is right.
Can we sponsor a specific vertical instead of the whole community?: Yes, and we usually recommend it. Each of our eight verticals (AI & Data, VC, Biotech, Consulting, Health Policy, Medical Devices, Research, Design) has its own programming, leadership, and engagement patterns. Vertical-specific sponsorships are tighter, cheaper, and usually outperform community-wide placements for targeted audiences.
What's your process for evaluating potential sponsors?: We screen for alignment with what the community actually needs. We've turned down sponsors whose products didn't serve our members, even when the budget was generous. The community's trust is the asset. Protecting it isn't just principled, it's commercial.
What's the price range?: Newsletter placements start in the low four figures. Vertical sponsorships sit in the low-to-mid five figures. Datathon Gold and full Catalyst cohort sponsorships are in the mid-to-high five figures. We're a 501(c)(3) so pricing is transparent and proportional to scope. Happy to share specific numbers on a call.
Do members know when a program is sponsored?: Yes, always and explicitly. Sponsorship is disclosed at every event, named in every cohort, and credited in every co-branded piece of content. We don't run hidden placements, both because we shouldn't and because the community would notice.

Tell us what you're trying to do.

We'll point you at the right surface: sponsorship, hiring, co-program, or a custom mix. No deck, no pitch funnel, just a short conversation.

Email the team

Email goes to partnerships@mdplus.community.