The American Medical Student Association (AMSA), with a half-century history of medical student activism, is the oldest and largest independent association of physicians-in-training in the United States.
Today, AMSA is a student-governed, national organization committed to representing the concerns of physicians-in-training. With a membership of more than 68,000 medical students, premedical students, interns, residents and practicing physicians from across the country, AMSA continues its commitment to improving medical training and the nation's health.
The AMSA Foundation is dedicated to addressing the concerns of physicians-in-training and other health professional students related to the social and health problems existing in America and the world community. AMSA Foundation programs are geared toward offering non-traditional learning experiences and quality technical services to physicians-in-training who work on issues concerning underserved communities, institutional change, and the development of human potential.
For more than half a century, AMSA has represented the voice of physicians-in-training in their efforts to best serve the public. AMSA is dedicated to allocating time, energy and resources toward fulfilling our goals within these priorities.
Fighting for Universal Health Care
AMSA mobilizes students in advocating for quality, affordable health care for all. AMSA works through state and national coalitions to advocate for a healthcare reform process that involves sequential reform and a single-payer universal healthcare system.
Eliminating Health Disparities
AMSA strives to empower students with knowledge about domestic and global health disparities and provide opportunities for students to take action to eliminate health disparities on the local, state, national, and international levels.
Advocating for Diversity in Medicine
AMSA members work to improve the recruitment and retention of under-represented minorities into medicine while increasing the diversity of its own leadership, in order to create a tolerant, accepting and culturally diverse physician workforce, which can effectively serve our multicultural society.
Transforming the Culture of Medical Education
AMSA advocates for changes in medical education to create a humane and cooperative learning environment and develop physicians worthy of the public trust. There are many ways that AMSA is working toward reform in medical education; these include resident work hour reform, efforts toward medical student well-being, AMSA's PharmFree campaign, and revitalizing professionalism in the medical field.
AMSA represents a diverse constituency of members who work on important and diverse issues including:
Career Development
Community and Public Health
Complementary and Alternative Medicine
Creative Expression
Disability and Medical Students
Diversity in Medicine
Domestic Violence
Global Environment and Health
Global Health
Health and Human Rights
Eliminating Health Disparities
Health Equity Campaign
Health Policy
HIV/AIDS
Humanistic Medicine
Global Health
Global Warming
Legislative Action
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Health
Medical Education
Medical Malpractice
Medical Student Debt
Medical Student Well-Being
Minority Health
National Resident Matching Program,
Obesity,
Open Access to the Scientific Literature
Pharmaceutical Industry Influence
PharmFree Initiative
Physician Workforce Diversity
Primary Care
Public Health Education
Resident Work Hours
Revitalizing Professionalism
Standardized Patient Exam
Substance Abuse
Mental Health
Teaching Skills and Leadership Development
Tobacco,
Universal Health Care
Women's Health
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