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AMSA Constitution & Bylaws / Internal Affairs
Preamble, Purposes and Principles

CONSTITUTION & BYLAWS

Articles:

  1. Name
  2. Objectives
  3. Membership
  4. Chapters
  5. Suspension or Revocation of a Chapter
  6. Withdrawal of a Chapter
  7. Leadership and Structure
  8. Elections of the Officers and Trustees
  9. House of Delegates
  10. Regional Conferences
  11. Discrimination
  12. Finances
  13. Official Records
  14. Parliamentary Authority
  15. Insignia
  16. Publication
  17. Reports
  18. Amendments to the Constitution and Bylaws
  19. Closure of Medical Schools and Other Emergent Situations
  20. IFMSA

INTERNAL AFFAIRS

Sections:

  1. Action Committees and Issue Response Groups of the Association
  2. Action Committee Chairs
  3. Administration, Projects and Interest Groups of the Action Committees
  4. Executive Board of the Action Committees
  5. Liaisons of the Association
  6. Structure of the Regions
  7. Structure of the Local Chapters
  8. Annual Meeting
  9. Policy of the Association
  10. Policy Formulation of the Association
  11. Advertising Policy Formulation
  12. Review of Association Principles
  13. Format of Resolutions
  14. Environmental Health and AMSA-Sponsored Activities
  15. Regarding Public Advocation of the Association’s Principles
  16. Regarding The New Physician Magazine
  17. Strategic Planning and Strategic Priorities

PREAMBLE, PURPOSES and PRINCIPLES

Principals Regarding:

  • Accreditation
  • Activism
  • Admission to Medical School
  • Affirmative Action
  • Aging
  • Allied Health-Care Professionals and Personnel
  • AMSA Policy Making
  • Bioethics
  • Campaign Finance, Elections and Political Action 
  • Care of the Homeless and Indigent
  • Child and Adolescent Health Care
  • Civil Rights
  • Climate Change
  • Death and Dying
  • Dietary Supplements
  • Disabilities and Disabled Persons
  • the Environment
  • Financing of Medical Education
  • the FDA's Prohibition on Men Who Have Sex With Men From Donating Blood and Sperm Products
  • the Food Industry
  • Food and Nutrition
  • Gender Identity
  • Genetics
  • Graduate Medical Education and Specialty Distribution
  • Health Disparities
  • Health Equity
  • Hearing Loss
  • Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) and HIV-Related Illnesses
  • Human Research Participants
  • Human Rights
  • Hunger Strikes
  • Immigrant Health
  • Integrative, Complementary and Alternative Medicine (ICAM)
  • International Health
  • International Medical Schools and Graduates
  • International Trade Agreements
  • Intersex Health
  • Legislative Concerns and Political Action
  • Medicaid
  • Medical Center Recovery After a Catastrophic Event
  • Medical Education—Curriculum Design
  • Medical Education—Curriculum Content
  • Medical Education Mission Statements
  • Medical Education and the Pharmaceutical Industry
  • Medicare and Social Security
  • Mental Health
  • Minority Representation in Medical Schools
  • Nonprofit Organizations
  • Osteopathic Medicine
  • Patient Medication Lists
  • Patients’ Rights
  • Pediatric Obesity
  • Pharmaceuticals and Medical Devices
  • Physician Aid in Dying
  • Physician Competence
  • Physician Impairment
  • Physician Payment Reform
  • Physician-Scientists
  • Physicians and the Armed Forces
  • Physician Unionization
  • Poverty and Public Assistance
  • Premedical Education
  • Preventive Medicine and Public Health
  • Primary Care and Family Medicine
  • Professionalism and Professional Liability
  • Representation of Women in Medicine
  • Quality, Affordable Health Care For All in the United States: Coverage, Access, and Delivery
  • Reproductive Rights, Family Planning and Sex Education
  • Research
  • Resident and Student Work Hours
  • Service in Underserved Areas and Service Obligations
  • Sexuality
  • Stem Cell Research
  • Student Rights and Responsibilities
  • Terrorism
  • Treatment of Prisoners of War and Enemy Combatants
  • Use of Illegal Drugs, Alcohol and Tobacco
  • Violations of Medical Neutrality
  • Violence and Hate Crimes
  • Vivisection in Medical Education
  • War and Military Action
  • Wellness of Medical Students and House Staff
  • Work and the Work Environment

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