Diversity

Healing with Art & Activism

  SPOTLIGHT ON ABORTION CARE & REPRODUCTIVE JUSTICE  Healing with Art & Activism Written by Becky Martin, AMSA Senior Manager of Reproductive Health Advocacy During our collective COVID shutdown we were reminded of the power of music to nurture and heal by the Singing Surgeons Dr. Elvis Francois and Dr. William Robinson. This week, we...

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 stands against Florida’s Racist, White Supremacist Curriculum

By Rohini Kousalya Siva MD MPH MS, National AMSA President  Just when you thought Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis couldn’t get any worse, he’s supporting the Florida State Board of Education’s new education standards which include teaching K-12 students that slavery had “benefits” for enslaved people. DeSantis, Commissioner of Education Manny Diaz, and state board of...

AMSA Denounces Supreme Court Decision Regarding Affirmative Action

By Trevor Lyford,  Nikita Balaji, Annelise Silva, and Rohini Kousalya Siva   On Thursday, June 29, 2023, in the case of Students for Fair Admissions v. President and Fellows of Harvard College and Students for Fair Admissions v. University of North Carolina,  The Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) ruled that the admissions programs...