*The American Medical Association (AMA), American Medical Student Association, and MedChi, combined together to create the Policy Collective Interest Group (est. 2024-2025)
The Medical Student Section is dedicated to representing medical students, improving medical education, developing leadership, and promoting activism for the health of America. By joining the AMA-MSS, medical students become part of the AMA, the country's most influential physician organization, and have the unique ability to advocate for student, physician, and patient issues at the local and national levels. AMA medical student members have the ability to change national policy by submitting resolutions to the AMA House of Delegates.
American Medical Student Association is a student-governed, national organization committed to representing the concerns of physicians-in-training. AMSA members are medical students, premedical students, interns, residents and practicing physicians. Founded in 1950, AMSA continues its commitment to improving medical training and the nation's health. When you join AMSA, you become part of a vital force of future physicians who believe that patients and health professionals are partners in the management of health care and that access to high-quality health care is a right and not a privilege. At AMSA, activism is a way of life. Student idealism is transformed into meaningful public service, innovation, and institutional change.
The Mission of MedChi (pronounced med-kī), The Maryland State Medical Society, is to serve as Maryland's foremost advocate and resource for physicians, their patients and the public health. As part of the student section of MedChi, we work to help represent physicians-in-training on the state level. This organization is a collection of medical students from all 3 state schools: University of Maryland, Johns Hopkins University, and Uniformed Services University. Each year leadership in this organization rotates so that a member from each school holds office as either President, Vice-President, or Secretary/Treasurer. The main goals of this organization are to foster collegiality, service, and professionalism between these three schools and practicing physicians in the state.