• Scholars Programs

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    Take a deep dive with AMSA Scholars programs into topics not fully addressed in traditional medical school curricula, including how disparities among patients impact access and treatment; assumptions about gender and gender identity; and more.

  • AMSA Leadership Program

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    It takes more than medical school to make a physician. Your education is dedicated to teaching you the core aspects of becoming a physician – diagnosing and treating patients. But what about everything else?

  • Fellowship Opportunity

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    The AMSA-KP Education and Advocacy Fellow (EAF) is a unique position for an AMSA medical student member to spend a year augmenting their formal medical training with the opportunity to delve deeply into critical issues affecting physicians-in-training, health policy, practice and regulation, and medical professionalism.

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At AMSA, we see a better way forward. We see opportunities to reshape medicine as future physicians. Our vision is a world where health care is accessible, medicine is affordable and systems support the diversity we see around us.

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AMSA Publications

From Weekly Consult

“At 71, she’s never felt pain or anxiety. Now scientists know why.”

Not even during childbirth did Jo Cameron feel pain. Later in life she walked around with a severely degenerated hip bone. On occasion, she wouldn’t realize that she had burned herself until she smelled her own burning flesh. Though medicine has been studying patients who feel no pain for more than a century, we may now understand the genetic reason.

From The New Physician

“Meet Your Allies”

America is facing a primary physician shortage. Read how we can look to other health care systems to make the most of relationships with Nurse Practitioners and Physician’s Assistants—and come together to address the primary care shortage.