Just announced: AMSA’s Scholars Programs are live for 2023-2024  Welcome to Scholars Program season! Every year, AMSA envisions and develops virtual learning programs, designed to offer medical students training and experience on topics that are not always offered in medical school. And if they are, we can pretty much assure you that they’re not offered…

This was one for the books! For three action-packed days in June, we took Phoenix by storm. We convened as a mighty force of future physicians from across the globe. We learned. We networked. We sutured. We postered. We speed-dated. And we had an amazing time doing all of it. This was Future Physicians for…

By J Conrado, AMSA Gender & Sexuality Advocacy Coordinator and M2 at EVMS, Nikitha Balaji, AMSA Health Policy Gender and Sexuality Coordinator and M1 at CWRU SOM, Elissa Cleland, AMSA Gender & Sexuality Chair and M2 at EVMS, Trevor Lyford, AMSA Health Policy Chair and M2 at EVMS, and Rohini Kousalya Siva, National AMSA President,…

By Trevor Lyford,  Nikita Balaji, Annelise Silva, and Rohini Kousalya Siva   On Thursday, June 29, 2023, in the case of Students for Fair Admissions v. President and Fellows of Harvard College and Students for Fair Admissions v. University of North Carolina,  The Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) ruled that the admissions programs…

by The AMSA Board of Trustees, special mentions to Avanthi Jayaweera, Annelise Silva, Adjoa Cofie, Alexander Costa, Tyra-Lee Brett, Andres Diaz The American Medical Student Association (AMSA) would like to thank Dr. R. Ray Jr. for publically detailing his experience with racism during his residency education, as detailed in his blog post, “Racism in Medical…

  Loss of the Federal Right to Abortion Care at the 1-year Mark Virginia: The Final Bastion of Bodily Autonomy in the South By Elissa Cleland, AMSA Gender & Sexuality Chair and rising MS2 at Eastern Virginia Medical School As a Virginia resident all of my life, I am well aware of the polarized cultural…