Cohort, not a course
You go through Catalyst with peers, not alone. The people in your cohort are part of the value; many MDplus alumni cite their Catalyst cohort as the most generative cohort of their career.
Programs · Catalyst
Our flagship cohort program for physician-innovators.
Catalyst is a structured cohort experience for medical students, residents, and physicians serious about taking on real work in healthcare innovation, backed by leading partners and led by operators who've done it.
The full program lives at catalyst.mdplus.community, a separate platform we run for cohort members.
What it is
The fastest serious path from curious to building.
Most physicians and med students who want to do something outside clinical work get stuck in research mode for years. Catalyst is the structured alternative: a cohort, mentors, and a deadline.
Mentorship from people who've done it
Mentors are physicians and operators inside the partner organizations: companies actively building in healthcare innovation, not industry analysts.
Real projects, real deadlines
Catalyst is structured around shipping something concrete by the end. The work, not the watching, is the point.
Backed by the field
Sponsored by leading firms across AI, biotech, healthcare-AI, and venture: the same partners that shape what's actually getting built in the field today.
Backed by
The companies actually building healthcare's future.
Catalyst is sponsored by leading firms across AI, biotech, healthcare AI, and venture: the same names that show up in MDplus members' trajectories.
- Anthropic
- OpenEvidence
- a16z Bio + Health
- AlleyCorp
- Chamber Cardio
- Thalamus
- Fabric
- Scrub Capital
Who it's for
Three kinds of people, one cohort.
Med students
Curious about non-clinical paths.
If you've been wondering whether tech, AI, biotech, or VC is for you, Catalyst is the structured first step that doesn't require leaving medicine to find out.
Residents
Building on the side.
If you're already working on a side project (a startup idea, a research direction, a tool), Catalyst gives you a cohort of peers and mentors to make it real instead of theoretical.
Physicians
Crossing into industry.
If you're considering a transition from clinical to industry, Catalyst is the cohort to do that thinking with, alongside people on the same path and people who've already crossed.
See the program. Apply when ready.
The full Catalyst experience (application, cohort schedule, mentor list) lives on the dedicated subdomain.