SPOTLIGHT ON ABORTION CARE & REPRODUCTIVE JUSTICEÂ Building Beloved Community Through Practices of Belonging in Times of Social Disintegration; Or, How We Stick Together in Order to Live to Fight Another Day Written by Jeff Koetje, MD, AMSA Reproductive Health Programming Strategist Just this week, a meme showed up in my Instagram feed that...
For medical students entering clinical training today, the electronic health record (EHR) is simply the environment in which medicine is practiced. But understanding how this technology came to exist, how it has been shaped by legislation, and what it demands of clinicians is essential knowledge for any physician in the making. The story of the...
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...
This was one for the books! For three action-packed days in June, we took Phoenix by storm. We convened as a mighty force of future physicians from across the globe. We learned. We networked. We sutured. We postered. We speed-dated. And we had an amazing time doing all of it. This was Future Physicians for...