Thank you for your continued interest in AMSA. This is a busy time for you and we appreciate you visiting! As a resident-physician, you can still be involved with the nation's largest independent organization for physicians-in-training. Though you may not have a lot of free time, there are many ways you can benefit from your continued membership. First, verify your membership status.

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AMSA's Speaker's Bureau
Share your expertise with medical students in your local community or nationwide. Join our Speaker's Bureau today!

Serve as a Mentor*
Sign up to serve as a mentor to medical students and/or pre-meds in your area! Local students are always looking for speakers on a variety of issues or just a local resident who they can talk to about their future career options.

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Are you PharmFree?
For 5 years, AMSA has been instrumental in educating future physicians on the unbiased marketing practices of the pharmaceutical industry. Medical education is beginning to follow suit and more and more data is emerging. As a resident, with limited time, there are ways you can remain involved on this issue:

• Stay up-to-date with the unbiased sources.
  
  
• Give a PharmFree PowerPoint Presentation. AMSA has created a PowerPoint that will help you educate your fellow students about the pharmaceutical industry, its marketing practices and how you can get unbiased drug information.
  
  
• Plan a meeting with your program director. Discuss policies regarding pharmaceutical company sponsored lunches. Ask them to make alternative lunches available. Make certain that pharm reps are not allowed in areas of patient care (e.g. wards and clinics) and that drug company social events are not publicized within the hospital. Urge the hospital and its clinics to stop accepting free drug samples and promotional materials, and ask that non-biased sources of drug information be available in the school/hospital library, on the wards, and in the clinic. For the most impact, remember to leave a document, such as this, outlining the data in the published literature as well as suggested guidelines to be implemented by the department or program. See the Duke University Health System for existing policy.
  
  
• Check out AMSA's PharmFree Campaign in recent media, including Time Magazine and USA Today! Check out the articles!
  
  
• Find out more about AMSA’s new Counterdetailing Initiative.

Review Your Residency Program
AMSA is building a Career Development Program, which will serve as an invaluable resource to medical students. We need your anonymous input on the residency program you are in or have completed. We appreciate your participation.

KEEP BENEFITING WITH YOUR AMSA MEMBERSHIP

Maintain your membership!
While your resident membership is free, it is very important that you keep up updated on your current address. If you have not already, please be sure to update your address with us so that you can continue your complimentary membership.

Just because you have graduated from medical school, you are still eligible for the great AMSA benefits you enjoyed through your medical school years.

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A great way to stay in touch with fellow AMSA residents and alumni. Keep up-to-date with research, news and what other residency programs are doing. Listserve Guidelines