American Medical Student Association

AMSA Recent Accomplishments

PharmFree Scorecard Receives Worldwide Attention

In 2010, AMSA released its updated PharmFree Scorecard. AMSA collaborated with The Prescription Project, an industry watchdog group working to eliminate conflicts of interest in medicine, to develop a rigorous methodology and an interactive Website that evaluates each school’s policies across 11 domains. The AMSA PharmFree Scorecard offers a comprehensive look at conflict-of-interest policies across the country, as well as an in-depth, school-by-school look at policies that govern industry interaction with medical school faculty and trainees. 

Launch of AMSA Academy

AMSA Academy is a training ground for physician leaders, established by and for students. The Academy takes medical students through the core competencies of leadership and project implementation, while building on key principles of important and under-taught aspects of medicine.

Medical Students Take Charge of Forging Health Care Future

In January 2009, the California Alliance for Legislative Action for Universal Healthcare and AMSA gathered 550 health professions students from around the state and converged on the California State Capitol in Sacramento to demand an expansion of health care access to all Californians and called on state legislators and Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger to exempt health coverage from potential budget cuts. The rally and legislative visits supported S.B. 840, the California Universal Healthcare Act, which would provide single-payer universal health care coverage to all residents of California.

AMSA Receives Grant from Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to Empower New Generation of Primary Care Leaders

AMSA recently received approximately $50,000 in support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to empower the next generation of primary care leaders over the next five years with the goal of strengthening primary care in the United States over the next five years and expand National Primary Care Week programming.

AMSA Launches Award-Winning Website

AMSA recently launched its redesigned website, www.amsa.org. More than just an aesthetic upgrade, this new tool provides the AMSA community easy access that will allow even greater levels of engagement at the local, regional and national levels. In June 2010, the AMSA Website received the 2010 Communicator Award for Excellence, a design award issued by the International Academy of the Visual Arts.