What are medical school communities?

Communities for medical students, pre-meds, and healthcare professionals covering admissions, board prep, and career paths. LinkedIn connects pharmaceutical and biotech professionals, while Reddit has active subreddits for school applications, clinical experiences, and the realities of medical training.

Where do most medical school communities live?

Reddit is the most common platform in this report (43% of 14 listings).

Are most of these communities free?

100% are free to join. The rest require payment, an application, or both.

How big is a typical medical school community?

Among listings with public size data, the average is 378K members and the median is 193K. The median is usually the better signal for a typical group because a few large ones inflate the average.

What do these communities usually include?

Forum is the most common (79%). Others that show up often include live chat.

How does Hive Index collect this data?

Listings are submitted by community builders and researchers, reviewed for relevance, and updated with platform, feature, member, review, and traffic data where available.

Where can I see the full list?

The full directory is on Hive Index's Medical School topic page, where you can filter by platform, size, features, and more.

Medical School Communities Report: Stats, Platforms,...

Executive Summary

We analyzed 14 medical school communities listed on Hive Index to understand where people gather, what these groups offer, and which communities attract the most interest.

The big picture: In this smaller sample, medical school communities are broad and fragmented, with many small groups and a few very large outliers.

Source: Hive Index community database · Updated 2026-06-06

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Communities: 14
Platforms: 6
Avg members: 378K
Median members: 193K

Where Medical School Communities Are Hosted

Reddit
6(43%)
Facebook
3(21%)
Discord
2(14%)
Independent Platforms
1(7%)
LinkedIn
1(7%)
Slack
1(7%)

Format mix

Forum / feed-based
10(71%)
Chat communities
3(21%)
Other platforms
1(7%)

Forum / feed-based is most common (71%), but chat communities is also well represented (21%).

Reddit leads (43% of listings).

Audience Size & Access

Community size

Tiny
<20 members
0(0%)
Small
20-100 members
0(0%)
Medium
100-1,000 members
0(0%)
Large
1,000-10,000 members
1(7%)
Huge
10,000-100,000 members
5(36%)
Massive
100,000-1M members
7(50%)
Gigantic
1M+ members
0(0%)

1 community has unknown member counts.

Free vs paid

The average is much higher than the median (378K vs 193K), which usually means a few large groups are pulling the average up.

How Medical School Differs From Other Categories

Medical School is more free-to-join, and larger, compared with typical Hive Index topics.

Metric	Medical School	Hive Index average
Free to join	100%	85%
Median members	193K	25K
Average members	378K	669K
Paid or apply-to-join	0%	15%
Live chat	21%	38%
Discord share	14%	16%

Feature Mix

Common features appear in at least 15% of listings.

Common Features

Forum
79%
Live Chat
21%

Niche Features

Job Board
7%
Newsletter
7%
Online/Offline Events
7%
Tools
7%

Forum appears on 79% of listings.

What Visitors Click

Outbound clicks / mo: 60

Platform supply vs. clicks

Platform	Communities	Share of communities	Outbound clicks	Share of clicks
Reddit	6	43%	7	12%
Facebook	3	21%	7	12%
Discord	2	14%	44	73%
Independent Platforms	1	7%	1	2%
Slack	1	7%	1	2%

Share is calculated within this topic.

Discord gets 73% of clicks but only 14% of listings, so visitors click it more than you'd expect from supply alone.

Most-clicked formats

Chat communities
45(75%)
Forum / feed-based
15(25%)

Most-clicked features

Live Chat
45(75%)
Forum
15(25%)
Tools
1(2%)

Most-clicked size ranges

Large
31(52%)
Huge
18(30%)
Massive
10(17%)

Top-clicked listings

Biomedical Library
31(52%)
MCAT / Premed
13(22%)
r/premed
3(5%)

Most clicks go to chat communities and forum / feed-based communities.

Trends

Founded year

1999

2009

2010

2012

2013

2020

7 communities have no founding year on file.

Most listed groups were founded around 2009.

Methodology & FAQ

Methodology

This report uses communities in the Hive Index database tagged as Medical School. We exclude removed or suppressed listings. Member counts, traffic, features, reviews, and ratings may vary by source and are updated periodically.

•We only have a handful of listings so far, so treat these numbers as directional.
•Last updated 2026-06-06

FAQ

: Communities for medical students, pre-meds, and healthcare professionals covering admissions, board prep, and career paths. LinkedIn connects pharmaceutical and biotech professionals, while Reddit has active subreddits for school applications, clinical experiences, and the realities of medical training.
: Reddit is the most common platform in this report (43% of 14 listings).
: 100% are free to join. The rest require payment, an application, or both.
: Among listings with public size data, the average is 378K members and the median is 193K. The median is usually the better signal for a typical group because a few large ones inflate the average.
: Forum is the most common (79%). Others that show up often include live chat.
: Listings are submitted by community builders and researchers, reviewed for relevance, and updated with platform, feature, member, review, and traffic data where available.
: The full directory is on Hive Index's Medical School topic page, where you can filter by platform, size, features, and more.

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