AMSA Updates

AMSA’s response to USMLE scoring change recommendations

The Invitational Conference on USMLE Scoring (InCUS) recently allowed public statements from medical students in regards to the potential USMLE Step 1 score change. The USMLE Step 1 was originally a pass/fail exam. However, this changed due to increased emphasis on the test to select residency candidates. Step scores have a huge influence on match...

Title X Changes Hurt Low-Income and Vulnerable Women Most

By: Megan Hunt, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and Keanan McGonigle, AMSA Education and Advocacy Fellow, 2019—2020   In our high-risk pregnancy clinic, I was introduced to a young woman in the eighth month of her second pregnancy. The woman had a number of mental health disorders which complicated care due to her cocktail of...

A year in review: 5 things I learned as the AMSA Education & Advocacy Fellow

By: Daniel H. Gouger, MD The morning of my medical school graduation, I woke up early to steam my academic regalia. Then I wrote a public statement about how repealing the Affordable Care Act would devastate millions. In months of scorching D.C. summer heat, I met with elected officials’ offices and called Congressional phone lines,...

“AMSA brings people together”

This month’s Leader Spotlight is Dylan Carroll! Dylan is a student at Trinity School of Medicine Clinical Sciences Medical Chapter, pursuing a focus in Emergency Medicine/Infectious Disease. Why did you join AMSA? I joined AMSA to become connected to medicine on a personal level. Everyone gets into the medical profession for a vast number of reasons, but...