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Opportunities
The AMA offers many opportunities for medical students, including:
Leadership positions
Standing Committees information
Standing Committees application (Word, 50KB)
Deadline: July 14, 2008
Convention Committees information
Convention Committees application
Deadline: September 2008 (for 2008 MSS Interim Meeting)
AMPAC Board Member (Word, 45KB)
Deadline: August 1, 2008
AMA Councils (information)
AMA Council application (Word, 50KB)
Deadline: Jan. 31, 2009
AMA Foundation Board (Word, 45KB)
Deadline: Jan. 31, 2009
Liaison Committee on Medical Education (Word, 41KB)
Deadline: Jan. 31, 2009
National Board of Medical Examiners (NBME) (Word, 35KB)
Deadline: Jan. 31, 2009
National Resident Matching Program (NRMP) (Word, 38KB)
Deadline: Jan. 31, 2009
Advisory Committee on Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender (GLBT) Issues (Word, 36KB)
Deadline: Jan. 31, 2009
AMPAC Student Advisory Board (Word, 66KB)
Deadline: April 2009
MSS Governing Council (description)
MSS Governing Council Application (Word, 66KB)
Deadline: October 2008 (for Chair-elect)
Board of Trustees (Word, 33KB)
Deadline: October 2008
Regional Delegate (information)
Regional Delegate application
Deadline: October 2008
Minority Affairs Consortium (MAC) Governing Council (Word, 46KB)
Deadline: Jan. 31, 2009
Women Physicians Congress (WPC) Governing Council (Word, 44KB)
Deadline: Jan. 31, 2009
Grants, awards, and scholarships
Chapter Involvement Grants - Each chapter is eligible for up to $1,000 per academic year and applications are due 30 days prior to the event.
MSS Chapter of the Year Award - annual award given to an MSS chapter who demonstrates leadership, membership growth, community service efforts, and advocacy initiatives
Deadline: April 30, 2008
AMA Foundation Minority Scholars Award – Ten awards of $10,000 given annually to minority medical students
Deadline: April 2009
AMA Foundation Physicians of Tomorrow Scholarship – Five scholarships of $10,000 given to rising fourth-year medical students
Deadline: May 31, 2008
The Arthur N. Wilson, MD, Scholarship – One $5000 scholarship is awarded to a medical student who grew up in Southeast Alaska.
Deadline: Mid-June 2008
AMA 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, 2008
MSS Research Poster Award Abstracts - annual poster award competition held at the MSS Interim Meeting
Deadline: September 2008
AMA 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: December 2008
AMA Foundations Seed Grants - Grants ranging from $1,500 to $2,500 are awarded for numerous research categories
Deadline: December 2008
Funding, grants, and educational programs for minority students
Internships and fellowships
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: Jan. 31, 2009
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, 2009. Late applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis through April 15, 2009 or until all available GRIP spots have been filled.
Virtual 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. 2008
AMA 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 fellowships
JAMA 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.
Discovery Health “Medicine & the Media” Elective Rotation (PDF, 156KB) - 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.
Deadline: April 17, 2008
HHMI-NIH Research Training Fellowships - support a year of full-time biomedical research training for medical and dental students.
Deadline: January 2009
NIH-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 2009
National Institutes of Health/Fogarty International Clinical Research Scholars Program
The NIH/Fogarty International Clinical Research Scholars Program offers clinical research training experience for graduate-level U.S. students in the health professions. The program offers one year of clinical research training to students in medical, osteopathic, or dental school, as well as to students enrolled in doctoral-level programs in schools of public health, optometry, nursing, pharmacy, or veterinary medicine. Participants will experience mentored research training at top-ranked NIH-funded research centers in a diverse group of countries.
Deadline: December 2008
The CDC Experience: Applied Epidemiology Fellowship – Funded by a grant from Pfizer Inc, The CDC Experience: Applied Epidemiology Fellowship at CDC provides medical students with an applied hands-on training experience in epidemiology and public health. Eight competitively selected medical students from around the country who are completing their second or third year of medical school will spend up to one full year at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta, Georgia. While at CDC, with the guidance of experienced CDC epidemiologists, they carry out epidemiologic analyses in areas such as birth defects, injury, chronic disease, infectious disease, environmental health, reproductive health and minority health.
Deadline: December 2008
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