What We Do
AMSA has something for everyone, no matter what level of involvement you are looking for.
Local Opportunities
Our local AMSA chapter works hard to host informative speakers, workshops, local projects, lobby days and more, but we need YOUR HELP to come up with better ideas and projects. We are going to have eight local action committees to mirror the eight national committees and we need you to step up and provide leadership to plan and carry out at least one lunchtime event and one project for each committee. If you have an event or project that you would be interested in doing, LET US KNOW! Some of the things we have in mind for this year include events about the upcoming elections, PharmFree day, Worlds AIDS Day, Primary Care Week, holistic medicine and debt management as well as other global health and health policy issues. In addition, we will be holding a residency fair, a blood drive, and a voter registration drive. To stay informed on what is going on now, check out the Student Activities Calendar or sign up for the AMSA listserv.
National Opportunities
The national AMSA organization has a ton of opportunities. Examples include the Leadership Training Institutes/Retreats, Regional Conference, and of course National Conference. Opportunities center around the four Strategic Priorities:
Activities are supported through the eight Action Committees:
In addition, there are many Interest Groups and Listservs that are way too numerous to list here.
Local Opportunities
Our local AMSA chapter works hard to host informative speakers, workshops, local projects, lobby days and more, but we need YOUR HELP to come up with better ideas and projects. We are going to have eight local action committees to mirror the eight national committees and we need you to step up and provide leadership to plan and carry out at least one lunchtime event and one project for each committee. If you have an event or project that you would be interested in doing, LET US KNOW! Some of the things we have in mind for this year include events about the upcoming elections, PharmFree day, Worlds AIDS Day, Primary Care Week, holistic medicine and debt management as well as other global health and health policy issues. In addition, we will be holding a residency fair, a blood drive, and a voter registration drive. To stay informed on what is going on now, check out the Student Activities Calendar or sign up for the AMSA listserv.
National Opportunities
The national AMSA organization has a ton of opportunities. Examples include the Leadership Training Institutes/Retreats, Regional Conference, and of course National Conference. Opportunities center around the four Strategic Priorities:
- Fighting for Universal Healthcare - To mobilize members in state and national coalitions to advocate for a health care reform process that involves sequential reform and a single-payer universal health care system.
- Eliminating Health Disparities
- AMSA strives to empower students with knowledge about domestic and global health disparities and provide opportunities for students to take action to eliminate health disparities on the local, state, national, and international levels.- Advocating for Diversity in Medicine
- AMSA strives to improve the recruitment and retention of under-reperesented minorities into medicine while increasing the diversity of our own leadership, in order to create a tolerant, accepting and culturally diverse physician workforce, which can effectively serve our multicultural society.- Transforming the Culture of Medical Education
- Advocate for changes in medical education to create a humane and cooperative learning environment and develop physicians worthy of the public trust. There are many ways that AMSA is working towards reform in medical education, these include resident work hour reform, efforts toward medical student well-being, AMSA's PharmFree campaign, and revitalizing professionalism in the medical field.
Activities are supported through the eight Action Committees:
- Community and Public Health
- Global Health
- Health Policy
- Humanistic Medicine
- Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Health
- Medical Education
- Minority Health
- Women's Health
In addition, there are many Interest Groups and Listservs that are way too numerous to list here.