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PRINCIPLES REGARDING REPRESENTATION OF WOMEN IN MEDICINE

The American Medical Student Association:

1.             SUPPORTS and ENCOURAGES the increased application and admission of qualified women to all medical schools, and DISCOURAGES disqualification of applicants solely according to sex, sexual orientation and gender identity and/or marital status;

2.             URGES federal support to encourage more women to enter the field of medicine and for recruitment of women as medical school faculty and administrators;

3.             SUPPORTS financial incentives for schools to progress toward achieving a percentage of women physician faculty and physician administrators at each rank equal to the percentage of women in the general population;

4.             URGES the AAMC to make available data from its faculty register which will show the status of each school with regard to the number of women in tenured teaching positions.