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STATS Manual (Students
Teaching AIDS to Students)
STATS is AMSA's award-winning project designed for medical students
interested in teaching students in grades 4-12 about HIV infection
and prevention. Attachment brochures and forms also available.
Projects-in-a-Box
These short publications were developed by the AMSA Foundation's
Generalist Physicians in Training project, under a grant from
the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. They offer a quick way to
get up-to-speed on a primary care topic, along with resource
lists and chapter project ideas.
- Academic Medicine and Managed Care: An Uncertain Future
- Child Abuse and Neglect
- Childhood and Adult Immunizations: A Model for Preventive Health
- Clinical Ethics in a Generalist's Practice
- Complementary and Alternative Medicine
- Cultural Competency in Medicine
- The Delivery of Urban vs. Rural Health Care
- The Future of International Health: Exporting Primary Care Medicine
- Guns and Violence
- Health Care for the Homeless
- Leadership Skills and Training
- Legislative Skills for Future Generalists
- Managed Care 101
- Oral Health as a Reflection of Overall Health
- An Ounce of Prevention
- Physician Supply and Distribution
- Primary Care in the Urban ER
- The Primary Care Team
- The Senior Boom is Coming: Are Primary Care Physicians Ready?
- Student Loan and Debt
- Tobacco, Public Health and Primary Care
- Women's Health
Preventing Adolescent Violence:
A Guide for Medical Students (PDF 105KB)
Discusses factors contributing to adolescent violence, public
health approaches, what medical students can do. Includes list
of resources. 1996
Starting a Student-Run
Homeless Clinic
A Guidebook for Health Professions Students on the Process of
Establishing a Clinic: A publication of the Bureau of Primary
Health Care
Planning a Rotation
of Elective in the Health Care for the Homeless Program
A Guide for Health Professions Students: A publication of the
Bureau of Primary Health Care
Tobacco Awareness Project (TAP): A
Guide for Getting Started (PDF 100KB)
Step-by-step guide for implementing a tobacco awareness program
in community middle schools. Includes health facts, games, role-playing
scenarios, list of resources and more. 1996
Ethics Club Start-Up Kit (PDF
113KB)
Gives an overview of bioethical issues and summarizes 18 discussion-stimulating
case studies. 1995
Health Care for the Homeless (PDF
165KB)
1996 AMSA National Project
Stamp Out Smoking (PDF 129KB)
1997 AMSA National Project
Teen Pregnancy (PDF 157KB)
1998 AMSA National Project
Substance Abuse Prevention
1999 AMSA National Project
Elementary School Nutrition
Education: A Teaching Curriculum (PDF 191KB)
From the AMSA chapter at the University of Pennsylvania. Provides
detailed plans for 13 lessons medical students can present in
their communities' elementary schools. Suggests props. 1996
Medical Students for
Earth: Environmental Health Activism for Medical Students
(PDF 68KB)
Lists environmental health projects that can be done by groups
or individuals. Includes additional resources and contact organizations.
1997
Peacework: Opportunities for
Medical Students in Peace Promotion (PDF 47KB)
Lists internships, rotations and volunteer experiences in violence
prevention, refugee health and human rights facilitation. 1997
Teen Mentor Program (PDF
96KB)
Medical students serve as mentors to teenagers who are substance
abusers or at risk for substance abuse. 1999
The BUDDIES Program Start-Up Kit
(PDF 39KB)
Matching medical/health professional students with chronically
ill children and their families to lend support and companionship
and encourage the pediatric patient through the course of treatment.
Into the Streets: How to Plan a
Community Service Day Project at Your School (PDF 44KB)
Suggests ideas and ways to start a one-day project to benefit
your community and your school.
Community Connections: A Sourcebook
for Local Community Health Projects (PDF 76KB)
How to start a community health project at your school, from
identifying the need, through planning and fund-raising, to the
logistics of setting up.
Playing God: The Dilemma of
the Dying Patient (PDF 17KB)
This project takes a controversial case, selected from a local
health care facility and utilizes members of the health care
team involved in the case as presenters. Suggests methods for
audience examination of the issues involved.
C.O.R.E.: Cancer Outreach and Relief
Effort (PDF 24KB)
Pairs medical students with siblings of pediatric cancer patients,
providing support to the child and the family and a learning
opportunity for the student.
Guidelines on Showing A Film Series (PDF 41KB)
How to put on a film series at your school compliant with (a layman’s opinion) on fair-use exceptions to copyright law.