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Future Physicians for Change: Dare to Blaze the Path Forward

by Rohini Kousalya Siva, MD, MPH, MS, National President of the American Medical Student Association (AMSA) Once a year, we come together as a diverse force of future physicians banded together with a common goal: to make positive change in healthcare. To dare to envision a better realm of medicine — to overcome barriers that...

AMSA Statement: Court Decision Wrong on Science & Medicine Threatens Safe, Effective FDA-Approved Abortion Medication

  Statement from the AMSA Board of Trustees Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine v. FDA Decision Threatens Safe & Effective FDA-Approved Medication Abortion Across the Country Appellate Court Ruling is Wrong on Facts, Science & Medicine On the evening of Friday, April 7th, a federal district judge in Texas, Matthew Kacsmaryk, whose own anti-abortion ideology is well...

Calling Out Scientific Misinformation and Protecting Transgender Youth

Calling Out Scientific Misinformation and Protecting Transgender Youth AMSA Endorses an Expert Report: “Biased Science: The Texas and Alabama Measures Criminalizing Treatment for Transgender Children and Adolescents Rely on Innacurate and Misleading Scientific Claims” By: Kyle Gavulic, Shamik Bhat, and Bassel Shanab 2021 set a dismal record: states across the country collectively introduced a total...

Called to Care: Community, Passion Inspired My Pursuit of a Career in Cardiology

Written by Tasha Phillips-Wilson,  AMSA Academy Chair, published in Cardiology Magazine, Jan 27, 2022 Called to Care: Community, Passion Inspired My Pursuit of a Career in Cardiology “Give back your heart to it self.” This quote from poet Derek Walcott resonated with me during my time in isolation in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic....