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What you may not know about AMSA’s Membership Leaders

At this very moment  Increasingly more medical students across the country are raising their hands to get involved. To find ways to make change. To fix what’s not working in health care. It is often the role of AMSA Membership Leaders to help pair students with AMSA, offering them a power source that they can...

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...

Incarceration during the COVID-19 pandemic, a potential mental health crisis

Author: Conor Burke-Smith, second-year medical student, Iowa This post is a series of mental health pieces from the AMSA WSL Committee Much has been written about the potential negative effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and mental health. Many have felt isolation to a greater extent than ever before in their lives. Anxiety exists about various...

Survey of AMSACon 2020 Attendees Finds COVID-19 is Changing How Med Students Study

By: The Merck Manuals Editorial Staff AMSACon2020 was a little different than conferences in previous years. Given the realities of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, this year’s conference was entirely virtual – the first of its kind. Students, medical professionals, leading medical institutions found new ways to connect and learn. But COVID-19’s impact on medical students...