Mental Health in the Asian Americans/Pacific Islander Community
September 04, 2020Authors: AJ Chowdhury, Max Wei, Alex Belzer AJ Chowdhury is a Bangladeshi-American medical student at Iowa. Max Wei is a Chinese-American medical student at Iowa. Alex Belzer is a medical student at Iowa. This post is one of a series of mental health pieces from the AMSA WSL Committee. Mental health is a public health…
AMSA Calls on National Governors Association for Healthcare Workforce Protections – COVID-19
September 01, 2020AMSA Calls on National Governors Association for Healthcare Workforce Protections On August 10, 2020, AMSA joined Physicians for Human Rights and a number of other health and human rights organizations to call on the National Governors Association to enact and enforce state-level guidance on healthcare workforce protections during the Coronavirus pandemic. Recommended standards are…
Social Justice is Public Health: AMSA Activism Update with Daphne Frias
August 31, 2020If You’re a Physician, You’re an Activist “It’s inherently the duty of anyone who’s going into the health care field to be an activist, not just for yourself but for your patients,” says youth activist, proud Latina, and future physician Daphne Frias. “I think if you’re going into the health care field, and you…
Immigrant Health, Detention, and COVID-19
August 26, 2020AMSA recently hosted a panel discussing immigrant health rights, detention, and COVID-19. A transcript of the discussion is below. It has been lightly edited for length and readability. Panel Moderator: Ashi Arora, REACH Chair Panel Members Rose Murray, Direct Services Attorney, Southeast Immigrant Freedom Initiative Dr. Ian Kim, Doctors for Camp Closure Dr. Asim Shah …
5 pitfalls of the personal statement: Don’t be the PB&J
August 09, 2020Boiling yourself down to one page may seem impossible, or maybe even a little depressing. It doesn’t have to be that way–in fact, it shouldn’t be that way. The personal statement is a chance to connect all of the dots. It’s an opportunity to explain your interest in medicine–and your value to it–better than a…
Incarceration during the COVID-19 pandemic, a potential mental health crisis
July 29, 2020Author: Conor Burke-Smith, second-year medical student, Iowa This post is a series of mental health pieces from the AMSA WSL Committee Much has been written about the potential negative effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and mental health. Many have felt isolation to a greater extent than ever before in their lives. Anxiety exists about various…
