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AMSA Recognizes National Physician Suicide Awareness Day – TAKE ACTION! Pass H.R.1667

  AMSA Recognizes National Physician Suicide Awareness Day Join AMSA in ACTION to Protect Health Care Providers & Prevent Burn-out Now! Pass the Dr. Lorna Breen Health Care Provider Protection Act (H.R.1667)   AMSA recognizes National Physician Suicide Awareness Day on September 17, 2021. We thank the  Dr. Lorna Breen Heroes’ Foundation and the Campaign...

What will the 2021-2022 MATCH look like?

By Thomas Pak, Adrianna Diviero, Donato Mignones, Erum Chowdhry  This piece is one of a series of AMSA Medical Education pieces for 2021-2022. Learn more about the Medical Education Team and get updates here!  COVID-19 changed the MATCH. What’s next? COVID-19 drastically affected medical education and residency application for 2020-2021. Students were not allowed to...

Mental health in Latin America

Authors: Juan Carlos Brea Minier, student at Technological Institute of Santo Domingo Carla Lee Kim, student at Technological Institute of Santo Domingo Priscila Hernandez, student at Technological Institute of Santo Domingo This post is a series of mental health pieces from the AMSA WSL Committee.  Is mental health really important for Latin American society? The...

The Labyrinth of Isolation: The Compounding Impact of the Pandemic on African American/ Black Mental Health

By: Josephine Akingbulu, BA, MPH, Jamar Stevenson, BA, Kaosoluchi Enendu, BS This post is one of a series of mental health pieces from the AMSA WSL Committee. Approximately 42 million people in the United States of America identify as Black. That is about 13.2% of the total population which is comprised of African American, as...