Community & Public Health

AMSA Applauds White House for Key Steps Towards Equitable Health and Housing

Lead Pipe and Paint Action Plan AMSA applauds President Biden and Vice President Harris for their commitment to remove lead from American homes. For over 35 years, Congress has not changed or updated the Safe Drinking Water Act to protect Americans from lead. On Tuesday, December 14, President Biden and Vice President Harris fixed that;...

Importance of including BIPOC skin lesions in medical training: UMKC medical students lead change in medical curricula

Authors: Deepa Kumar, Osama Kamal Editor: Thomas Pak, Donato Mignones Series of AMSA Medical Education pieces for 2021-2022   Summary The AMSA medical education committee highlights the work of University of Missouri – Kansas City’s medical students in leading change in medical curricula. The UMKC medical students saw a lack of images of skin lesions...

Mental Health of Medical Students in Light of COVID-19 Pandemic

By: Ramneek Hoonjan Ramneek Hoonjan is a medical student in the Trinity School of Medicine, and served as the previous chair of the AMSA WSL Committee This post is a series of mental health pieces from the AMSA WSL Committee. It is no surprise that medical students have high rates of burnout, depression and suicidal...

The Physician as Voting Advocate

During a recent AMSA Activism Update, Dr. Alister Martin, an ER surgeon at Massachusetts General Hospital, recalled his encounter with a young Latinx patient with diabetes. She had been admitted twice in a week with DKA. When Martin asked why she wasn’t taking her insulin, she told him about recently losing her job and health...