Leader Spotlight: Danielle Kelvas Read about how AMSA’s Chair of Global Health Danielle Kelvas got started with AMSA, and what she’s focusing on now as a National Leader. MD Candidate Class of 2018 Focus: Emergency Medicine National Chair of Global Health When did you join AMSA? 2015 AMSA Leadership Experience I coordinated the global health scholars…

EMILY HAUSE Being a pre-medical student is an experience like no other. You’re simultaneously trying to crush your rigorous science classes while volunteering, gaining medical shadowing experience, and cultivating extracurricular interests. You’re basically a superhuman student-volunteer-teammate-friend masquerading as a normal college student. Spotting a pre-med student is easy once you know what to look for. Here are eight…

This post was created in partnership with BetterHelp. As a BetterHelp affiliate, we may receive compensation from BetterHelp if you purchase products or services through the links provided on this page.   According to the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), almost 30% of medical students suffer from depression or symptoms of depression. In…

By: Coco Victoria Gomez Tirambulo Happy Wellness Wednesday, everyone! I recently watched a documentary called The Gut: Our Second Brain on Amazon Prime Video. It was released in 2013 and offers an interesting perspective on how our guts dictate many aspects of our daily lives and how we may not even be in control of our…

Learn more about how the AMSA chapter at Medical University of Lublin drew students in to share in building leadership experience with AMSA.  Chapter Objective: “Promoting leadership, and friendship in order to share knowledge, ideas and principles that will motivate future generations to become leaders” How did your chapter support this objective? “A few months…

Read about how AMSA’s International Region Director, Region 1 Chloe Waters’ found a community upon which to build at her AMSA Chapter. MS2, Focus: Emergency Medicine Saint James School of Medicine – St. Vincent & the Grenadines When did you join AMSA? March 2016 AMSA Leadership Experience AMSA International Region Director, Region 1: May 2017 SJSM, Saint…