Give your families a physician's honest read on BS/MD. At no cost, and no risk to your group.
Most strong community organizations don't partner with for-profit services. In your position, I wouldn't either. This page is here to show you why this one is built differently, and why saying yes asks almost nothing of your group.
No selling to your members. No referral fees in either direction. I build the co-branded materials for you. Your families get a genuine resource, and the choice to use it stays entirely theirs.
What your community gets. What it costs your group.
A partnership only makes sense if the math is obvious. Here it is, with nothing hidden on either side.
- A free physician-led BS/MD webinar. An honest take on combined-degree admissions from someone who graduated one, then helped run one. Nothing is sold during it.
- The 2026 BS/MD & BS/DO Program Guide, ungated. Program length, MCAT requirements, deadlines, state restrictions, fit notes. Free PDF, no email required.
- A free Candidacy Read. A five-minute physician-designed assessment that tells a family where their student actually stands, and sometimes tells them BS/MD is the wrong path.
- A genuine gift for a family of your choosing. A full Readiness Review, free, for a member family your group selects. The Match is part of it. Details below.
- Library access. Dozens of long-form essays families can read on their own time, no contact required.
- One share to your members. A post or message to your list, group, or channel. I write the copy for you.
- Your review of the materials. Nothing goes out under your name until you have read it and approved it.
- That's the whole ask. No budget. No volunteer hours building anything. No money changes hands in either direction.
The reason this works: you carry the relationship with your families, and I carry the expertise they're looking for. Putting the two together costs your group almost nothing and gives your members a resource most of them cannot find on their own.
The grandma rule.
On the first day of my residency, during orientation, my class gave itself a name. GCAT, the Greatest Class of All Time, said with the confidence interns have before their first overnight. Then we made one another a promise the name had not earned yet. We agreed that we would treat every patient the way we would treat our own grandmother. Not the way the chart wanted, not the way the schedule wanted. The way you would want someone to treat the person you love most.
That rule outlasted residency, and I am extending it to this. When a family brings me their child's future, I owe them what I would owe my grandmother: the truth, even when the truth costs me the work.
It is why the free Candidacy Read already on my site sometimes tells a family that BS/MD is the wrong path. A five-minute, physician-designed assessment that says no to the very families it could have signed is not something a salesperson builds. I built it because that is what I would want someone to tell my own family. The grandma rule is the whole reason your members can trust what comes from me, and it is the test you should hold every part of this partnership against.
Dr. Rory MerrittBrown PLME graduate · board-certified emergency physician · former Assistant Dean, Program in Liberal Medical Education
Your members already get pitched by admissions consultants. This is the opposite of that.
I will tell you my own bias up front: selling makes me nauseous. I built this whole thing so I would never have to do it to your families. If your organization is careful about who it lets near its members, good. So am I about how I show up. Four things make this different from the pitch you are used to declining.
- The free tools regularly tell families no. The Candidacy Read often recommends traditional pre-med instead of BS/MD. A consultant whose income depends on signing families does not build a tool that talks them out of it. I did, because the credibility is worth more than the sale.
- No money moves in either direction. No referral fee to your group, no commission to anyone, no charge to you. And nothing waits at the end: no countdown, no consultation to book, no package quoted in the final five minutes. You can tell your members that plainly, and it will be true.
- The credential is verifiable and rare. I am a board-certified emergency physician, a graduate of Brown's PLME (one of the original BS/MD programs), and a former Assistant Dean of that same program. This is not a marketing claim. It is a record your families can check.
- I never receive your membership list. What I get is only what a member hands me directly: those who register for the webinar share their email, their student's grade, and their biggest question, because they chose to. I use it to send them the recording and one next free, actionable step. You are giving your families a door, not handing me a roster.
The simplest way to judge whether this fits your community is to watch me do it. The next free webinar is Wednesday, June 24, 8:00 PM ET. Sit in, decide for yourself, then we talk. Register and watch first →
This is built for a specific family, and I will tell the others so.
My mission is narrow on purpose: help standout students, and there are so many, work out whether BS/MD is genuinely the right fit, and if it is, understand what the path actually asks of them. That means there are families I am the right person for, and families I am not. Knowing the difference helps you point the right members here.
- A student genuinely passionate about medicine, not following a family script.
- An excellent GPA.
- At least some real healthcare experience, more than an interest in the idea of medicine.
- A serious desire to pursue a BS/MD program, eyes open to what it takes.
- A student too young to have tested the interest in any real setting.
- An interest in medicine that is still shallow or unexplored.
- A path being driven by the family more than the student.
- These families are not turned away coldly. They are told the truth: that BS/MD is not the right question for them right now.
What I hand you, ready to post.
The reason most partnerships die is that they turn into a project for the organization. This one doesn't. You receive a finished kit, branded to your group, that you can review and send the same day.
A co-branded flyer.
Designed with your organization's name on it, written so it reads as a resource you are sharing, not a service you are endorsing. Print or digital. Yours to approve before anything goes out.
Ready-to-send post copy.
Drafted for your Facebook group, WhatsApp broadcast, email list, or newsletter. Written in plain, non-salesy language. Edit it, cut it, or use it as-is.
The webinar registration link.
A single link to the free session. If your group prefers, I will run a dedicated session for your members only, on a date that works for your community.
The ungated Program Guide.
A direct download link to share with members who want to start researching on their own. No email wall, no funnel. Only the resource.
A real gift, to a family your group chooses.
A free Readiness Review for a member family you select.
To show your group this is genuine and not a teaser, I give one family of your choosing a full Readiness Review ($1,295) at no charge, the same work paying families receive. The Match is part of it. Because it is the real product and not a sample, your group sees the actual quality of the work, not a thinned-out version of it. You pick the family. There is no obligation on them, and nothing to buy after.
I ask one thing in return, and only if the family wants to give it: honest feedback. Anything they share stays private unless they grant explicit permission, and even then it is used only with every identifying detail removed.
And if any part of it felt like a sale, that is the feedback I most want, because selling against a family is the opposite of what I stand for. They can write me directly at rorymerritt@bridge2md.com.
How Bridge2MD works with your organization.
- No referral fees or financial incentives, ever.Your organization is not compensated for sharing this, and your organization never pays for anything. There is no money to disclose, in either direction.
- You are sharing a resource, not endorsing a business.The materials are written so your group is offering members access to a physician's perspective they can evaluate independently. Your name on a flyer says "here is something useful," not "we vouch for this company."
- Your members' privacy is yours to protect.I never receive your membership list. Members who register for the webinar share their own email, their student's grade, and their main question with me directly, and I use it only to send them the recording and a next free step.
- You set the terms.One post or a standing partnership, a shared session or a dedicated one, your name featured or kept quiet. I defer to your group on how this is positioned to your community.
Community organizations carry real trust with their families, and that trust is the whole reason this is worth being careful about. Bridge2MD is built to give your members clear, physician-informed BS/MD guidance without asking your group to sell anything, vouch for anything, or take on any risk to its standing.
The questions a careful organization should ask.
If your first instinct is to be skeptical, that is the right instinct. Here are the objections I hear most, answered straight.
We don't partner with for-profit services. Why is this different?
What's the catch? Nobody does this for free.
Is there an upsell after the free review?
Will our members feel like we sold them to a vendor?
Our members already get spammed by admissions consultants. How are you not one more?
How much work is this for our volunteers?
Do you get our members' contact information?
How do we know your credential is real?
What if we want to try it small before committing?
Start with a conversation, not a commitment.
Tell me about your group and the families in it, and I will tell you honestly whether this is a fit. If it isn't, I will say so. If it is, you will have a ready-to-share kit faster than you expect.
Prefer to talk? Send me a quick email and we'll find a time.
Want to watch first? Register for the free June 24 webinar and decide afterward.