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AMA Opportunities:
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Leadership positions
AMA Councils (information)
AMA Council application (Word, 50KB)
Deadline: Jan. 31, 2008AMA Foundation Board (Word, 45KB)
Deadline: Jan. 31, 2008Liaison Committee on Medical Education (Word, 41KB)
Deadline: Jan. 31, 2008National Board of Medical Examiners (NBME) (Word, 35KB)
Deadline: Jan. 31, 2008National Resident Matching Program (NRMP) (Word, 38KB)
Deadline: Jan. 31, 2008Advisory Committee on Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender (GLBT) Issues (Word, 36KB)
Deadline: Jan. 31, 2008AMPAC Student Advisory Board (Word, 66KB)
Deadline: March 9, 2008Standing Committees information
Standing Committees application (Word, 50KB)
Deadline: July 16, 2007AMPAC Board Member (Word, 45KB)
Deadline closed: July 31, 2008MSS Governing Council (description)
MSS Governing Council Application (Word, 66KB)
Deadline: May 18, 2008Board of Trustees (Word, 33KB)
Deadline: Oct. 2007Regional Delegate (information)
Regional Delegate application
Deadline: Oct. 2007Minority Affairs Consortium (MAC) Governing Council (Word, 46KB)
Deadline closed: Dec. 15, 2007Women Physicians Congress (WPC) Governing Council (Word, 44KB)
Deadline closed: Dec. 15, 2007Grants, awards, and scholarships
Chapter Involvement Grants - Each chapter is eligibile for up to $1,000 per academic year and applications are due 30 days prior to the event.
MSS Chapter of the Year Award - An annual award given to an MSS chapter that demonstrates leadership, membership growth, community service efforts, and advocacy initiatives.
Deadline: April 2008AMA Foundation Minority Scholars Award - Ten awards of $10,000 given annually to minority medical students.
Deadline: April 15, 2008AMA Foundation Physicians of Tomorrow Scholarship - Five scholarships of $10,000 given to rising fourth-year medical students.
Deadline: May 31, 2008Ethics in Action Grants - Up to five chapters will be awarded grants of $5,000 over two years for ethics-related projects that foster long-term relationships between the medical school chapter, faculty, and the AMA staff.
Deadline: May 2008The Arthur N. Wilson, MD, Scholarship - One $5000 scholarship is awarded to a medical student who grew up in Southeast Alaska.
Deadline: Mid-June 2008AMA Foundation Scholars Fund - The AMA Alliance, the largest volunteer arm of the AMA, raises money each year for medical schools to distribute to deserving students of their choice.
Deadline: July 1, 2008MSS Research Poster Award Abstracts - Annual poster award competition held at the MSS Interim Meeting.
Deadline: Oct. 2007AMA Foundation Leadership Award - Presented annually to medical students, residents/fellows, young physicians and international medical graduate physicians who have exhibited outstanding leadership in organized medicine and/or community affairs.
Deadline: Nov. 2007AMA Foundations Seed Grants - Grants ranging from $1,500 to $2,500 are awarded for numerous research categories.
Deadline: Dec. 1, 2007Funding, grants, and educational programs for minority students
Internships and fellowships
Government Relations Internship Program - Provides $2,500 stipends for 10 students to complete a 6-8 week summer internship in Washington, D.C.
Deadline: Feb. 15, 2008. Late applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis through April 15, 2008 or until all available GRIP spots have been filled.Government Relations Advocacy Fellowship - One Fellow is selected each spring to work in Washington, D.C., as a full-time paid member of the AMA's Federal advocacy team for one year.
Deadline closed: Jan. 31, 2008AMA Institute of Ethics Fellowship and Visiting Scholar Program - Two to four qualified individuals will be given opportunities to start or advance their scholarly pursuits in bioethics by performing academic research and writing within the Institute for Ethics and its extensive research programs.
Deadline: Jan. 31, 2008Discovery Health “Medicine & the Media” Elective Rotation - Exclusive four to six week elective rotation for AMA medical student and resident members. During the rotation, one AMA medical student and one AMA resident will each work to develop a medical education program that will air on the Discovery Health Channel. This exciting opportunity gives the student and resident hands-on experience in the translation of rigorous scientific data into an entertaining and informational program. Apply today.
Deadline: May 15, 2008HHMI-NIH Research Training Fellowships - Support a year of full-time biomedical research training for medical and dental students.
Deadline: January 2008NIH-Clinical Research Training Program - is a year-long program designed to attract the most creative, research-oriented medical and dental students to the intramural campus of the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland. Participants, known as fellows, spend a year engaged in a mentored clinical or translational research project in an area that matches their personal interests and goals.
Deadline: January 16, 2008Virtual Mentor Theme Issue Editors - Students and residents are selected to serve as theme editors for one issue of Virtual Mentor, AMA's online ethics journal.
Deadline: Oct. 2008AMA Medicine and Public Health Rotations - Educational opportunities in the AMA's Department of Medicine and Public Health through rotations as part of their medical education curriculum; summer and year-long internships as part of course requirements; research projects; and field experiences as required by their public health course requirements. For more information, email Arthur Elster, MD, Director of Medicine and Public Health.
AMA Ethics Department Internship - Interns work at the AMA Headquarters in Chicago on an ongoing basis for summer, fall, and winter/spring semesters.
Deadline: Fall, Spring/Winter, and Summer fellowshipsJAMA Elective - JAMA provides a 4 week elective in medical editing for 4th year medical students who meet certain criteria. For more information, contact Robert Golub, MD, Senior Editor, JAMA.
The CDC Experience: Applied Epidemiology Fellowship - Up to 10 third- and fourth-year medical students will spend up to one full year at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta, Georgia.
Deadline: Fall, Spring/Winter, and Summer fellowshipsNational meetings
Convention Committees for 2007 Annual Meeting
Deadline: April 11, 2008Resolutions for 2007 Annual Meeting
Deadline: May 4, 2008Registration for 2007 Annual Meeting
Deadline: May 18, 2008Content provided by: AMA - Medical Student Section
Summer Opportunities:
Though the AMA:
Government Relations Internship Program (GRIP)
International Health Resources
Some Student Examples:
Summer Employment/Camp Counselor/Medical Student Organization (AMA) - I was burnt out from school so I worked part-time at Gap, spent a week as a camp counselor for kids with heart disease and worked on AMA stuff at our chapter and national level.
Internship (WHO)/Preceptorship (Oncology) - I spent the first half of the summer shadowing my mentor at North Memorial Hospital in Oncology and took small side trips to Chicago and New York to visit a few friends. Over the last six weeks of the final summer vacation of our lives, I was in Copenhagen as an intern for the Mental Health Programme of the WHO Regional Office of Europe analyzing healthcare delivery systems. While I was interning, I was able to take weekend trips to the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, and Germany.
Research (MMA Grant, University of Minnesota)/Preceptorship (Ob/Gyb) - I had a mini project in Dr. Osborn's lab on an MMA grant and another grant of his. He is a genius. He has several projects going on about a proposal for neural pathways involved in salt sensitive hypertension. I acquired a lot of surgical skills and had plenty of fun. I'm going to present it at the medical student research fair so people can check it out then. Unfortunately, I don't know if Osborn has any positions open this year because there are a total of 8-9 people working for him right now. I shadowed an OB/Gyn physician several times from May-June.
Research (Washington University) - I did research with Dr. Colin Derdeyn in neurointerventional radiology at the Washington University School of Medicine. It was part of a paid summer research program for med students between 1st and 2nd years. I found out about the program on my own through the internet. My time consisted of watching procedures and conducting research for an independent project, which involved chart review and calling/interviewing stroke survivors.
Foreign Language Course (Spanish, Guatemala) - For the first five weeks of summer vacation I read a lot of good books, went to a lot of movies, played a lot of guitar, and slept...a lot. For the last five weeks I traveled to Guatemala and took a language course in Quetzaltenango (Xela) going to class for four hours a day four days a week. I did quite a bit of sightseeing and adventuring too.
Foreign Language Course (Spanish, Guatemala and Honduras) - I went on a road trip to Utah and then I spent 6 weeks in Guatemala and Honduras learning Spanish.
Research (MMF Grant, University of Minnesota) - I worked in a research lab doing bench research for Dr. Mueller in the Department of Medicine. I received a stipend through the MMF grant program. I ended up working about 8 of the 9 or 10 weeks we had off. I chose Dr. Mueller because he was doing research in an area that I was somewhat familiar with already.
Research (MMF Grant, University of Minnesota) - This summer I worked in the department of Ophthalmology on a graduate research project. I received an grant from the MMF as a stipend for my summer expenses. I worked on creating protocol for 2D gel electrophoresis on human vitreous samples and then began preliminary work in identifying biological markers of disease in samples from patients with epiretinal membranes.
Preceptorship (Gastroenterology)/Medical Student Organization (AMA) - I had a preceptorship in Gastroenterology set-up through the medical school. I was fortunate enough to spend each morning watching procedures including: upper endoscopy, colonoscopy, liver biopsy, and ERCP (endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography ~ possibly the coolest thing I have ever witnessed/helped with). Each afternoon, I spent time in gastro clinic seeing patients with all sorts of digestive/liver disorders; I'm not going to lie, it was way sweeter than I had anticipated. The rest of my summer was spent sleeping in and setting up AMA's fall recruitment efforts and Dr. Hill's (AMA President) visit to our campus.
Become a Leader in the MMA:
MMA Leadership positions:
Chairperson - serves as leader of MMA-MSS, presiding over MMA-MSS meetings, advising Executive Council members, and delivering MMA-MSS report at annual MMA House of Delegates.
Vice-Chairperson - holds the responsibilities of assisting the Chairperson in performing duties, serving as parliamentarian of MMA-MSS meetings, and overseeing medical student reps on MMA committees.
Delegate - responsible for introducing MMA-MSS resolutions and representing MMA-MSS policy/opinions to MMA House of Delegates. The delegate also coordinates activities of MMA-MSS chapter delegates and chairs student caucuses at MMA-MSS meetings.
Alternate Delegate - responsible for assisting the Delegate in performing duties and representing the MMA-MSS to MMA House of Delegates if Delegate is unable to perform duties.
Secretary - responsible for recording minutes of all MMA-MSS meetings, updating MMA-MSS blog, and serving as editor for MMA-MSS publications.
Member-At-Large - holds the responsibilities of serving as liaison between MMA-MSS chapters and the Executive Committee and coordinating community services events for the MMA-MSS.
Student Trustee - responsible for representing MMA-MSS policy/opinions at all MMA Board of Trustees meetings and writing an article for MMA-MSS publications.
Student Committee Reps/Alternates - responsible for representing MMA-MSS policy/opinions at MMA committee meetings and submitting written reports of MMA committee activities to the Vice-Chairperson and Secretary.
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