Zeroing in on critical, timely issues that matter to tomorrow’s physicians.
Every year, AMSA zeros in on strategic priorities that are critical to physician education — issues that are often not being addressed in medical school.
From here, we devise innovative educational experiences that give students first-hand experience, context and opportunities to connect with experts and innovators. Immersive scholars programs, community projects, leadership and advocacy training from experts — and beyond.
We do this by partnering with inspired organizations and donors, like you.
Health Justice
Our decades-long commitment to helping remove barriers that prevent the equitable experience of health care for all continues today.
Digital Health
Health technology and digital health present a promising new pathway to address health inequity — and medical students are helping lead the way.
Reproductive Health
The need to ensure that the US continues to train enough physicians fully prepared to provide abortion care to their patients is more urgent than it’s been in decades. Our work in this area is essential.
Gender + Sexuality
Dismantling the barriers of sexism and heterosexism within the health care establishment is essential to achieving better health outcomes for women, intersex people and the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) communities.
Public Health
Soaring opioid addiction, climate change, heart disease. Physician involvement in issues like these is essential to improving the health of millions.
Medical Education Reform
From incorporating environmental health as a component of medical school curricula to addressing the mental health of students, change in medical schools, according to many students, is long overdue.
Available Funding Opportunities
Digital Health Innovation Festival
Medical students are finding bold ways to increase access to healthcare through technology. We’re seeing increasingly more start-ups and LLCs springing to life — and we want to help accelerate this. Get involved — play a role in this first-of-its-kind initiative: a kind of accelerator-lite for the med student tech trailblazers.
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MedEd Scorecard
An initiative currently underway for breathing new life into the push to modernize medical education — and rethink how US med schools are compared. This program is in the throes of development — reach out and we can fill you in with the latest.
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AMSA Fellow
Fund a medical student fellow — enabling them to spend a year augmenting formal medical training — delving deeply into critical issues affecting equitable healthcare, diversity in the workforce, and professional wellbeing.
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Institutional Partnerships
Sponsor an incoming class of students — enabling them to tap into AMSA’s diverse community; advocacy training and real-world learning experiences. Here, you can fund an Institutional Partnership granting a medical school’s students access to all AMSA member benefits for free — alongside some custom, exclusive opportunities.
Learn moreWant to dream up something new?
We’re not limited to what’s on this page. Here at the AMSA Foundation, we love to collaborate with our partners and funders, kick up up new ideas and bold collaborations — concepts that have yet to be hatched.
Let’s put our heads together and see what we can do.