American Medical Student Association Home

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The American Medical Student Association (AMSA), with a half-century history of medical student activism, is the oldest and largest independent association of physicians-in-training in the United States.

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1950

Mentions in press and media 18

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Feb 14, 2025	The Egg Dilemma: Breakfast Boom Meets Price Surge	The breakfast scene in America is sizzling. Restaurants are buzzing with morning patrons, and eggs are the star of the show. But this popularity comes with a price. As demand for breakfast items skyrockets, so do egg prices. The interplay b...
Feb 13, 2025	Health \| House cats with bird flu could pose a risk to public health	Related Articles Health \| This is what happens to the body when HIV drugs are stopped for millions of people Health \| Could obesity drugs help with alcohol cravings? New study suggests potential Health \| A year after Super Bowl parade shoot...
Sep 22, 2022	J Balvin enters the digital wellness space with the launch of a bilingual mental health app	J Balvin, the Prince of Reggaeton, has been candid with his fans about his mental health struggles and healing journey. Now, he’s productizing some of his journey by launching OYE, a Spanish/English wellness app. The app, which seeks to sup...
Jun 17, 2022	Medical schools need to be part of the solution to preventing gun violence	Like so many Americans, we watched in horror the news reports about the mass shootings in Buffalo and Uvalde, and the heartbreaking aftermath of families grieving their losses. As medical students, we are being trained to one day manage the...
Jan 28, 2020	‘Small’ tactics to counter Big Pharma’s influence on medication overload	Money talks in Washington, D.C., and no sector of the economy speaks more loudly than the pharmaceutical and biotech industry. Its flow of cash has fostered an epidemic of medication overload. Over the past five years, pharma has spent abou...
Oct 8, 2018	Hey, doctors: Don’t be no-shows (again) on Election Day	Physicians do many things well. One thing they aren’t good at is showing up to vote. That bad habit starts early, and we believe it can — and must — be changed. We don’t have data from recent elections, but studies from a decade ago show th...
Jun 29, 2016	Drug and device makers find receptive audience at for-profit, Southern hospitals	Where a hospital is located and who owns it make a big difference in how many of its doctors take meals, consulting, and promotional payments from pharmaceutical and medical device companies, a new ProPublica analysis shows. A higher percen...
Jan 14, 2014	How long does it take to become a doctor? Some medical schools shaving off a year of training	And he won’t begin practicing until he is 40. The chance to finish medical school early is attracting increased attention from students burdened with six-figure education loans: The median debt for medical school graduates in 2013 was $175,...
Aug 9, 2012	4 things driving simulator innovation for surgical training	The decision by one Philadelphia medical center to do away with using animals as part of its pediatric training in favor of sticking to simulators reflects a national trend for training in relatively simple procedures. Although animals have...
Sep 22, 2011	Cleveland Clinic and Case medical school gets $1M grant for minority students	A lack of diversity among American medical students contributes to “training and treatment environments that are biased, intolerant and contributory to health disparities,” according to the American Medical Student Association. Racial and e...
Jul 21, 2011	Eye and ear implants blow away hearts and hips for most frequently implanted medical devices in the U.S.	Eye and ear devices are the most implanted medical devices in the U.S., according to a new study by financial news and opinion company 24/7 Wall St. Artificial eye lenses for the treatment of cataracts topped the list of the 11 most frequen...
Jul 15, 2011	AdvaMed: Medical device prices and spending stagnant over 20 years	“It’s important for policymakers to understand that patient access to medical technology saves lives and improves quality of care. Medical devices and diagnostics are central to medical practice, but spending on advanced medical technology ...
Jul 14, 2011	Medical device prices have barely budged in 20 years, says med-tech lobby	Medical device spending vs. national health expenditures 1989-2009 As Congress considers cuts in health care spending and the FDA prepares to reauthorize users fees for medical devices, industry lobby AdvaMed issued a report finding that na...
	How long does it take to become a doctor? Some medical schools shaving off a year of training	For Travis Hill, it was an offer too good to refuse. Last year when the 30-year-old neuroscientist was admitted to a new program at New York University that would allow him to complete medical school in only three years and guarantee him a ...
	Cleveland Clinic and Case medical school gets $1M grant for minority students	The Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University has received a five-year, $1 million grant to support fellowships for minority medical students. The grant comes from the KeyBank Foundation, and follows ano...
	AdvaMed: Medical device prices and spending stagnant over 20 years	As Congress considers cuts in healthcare spending and the FDA prepares to reauthorize users fees for medical devices, industry lobby AdvaMed issued a report finding that national medical device prices and spending have barely budged over th...
	4 things driving simulator innovation for surgical training	The decision by one Philadelphia medical center to do away with using animals as part of its pediatric training in favor of sticking to simulators reflects a national trend for training in relatively simple procedures. Although animals have...

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When was American Medical Student Association Home founded?

American Medical Student Association Home was founded in 1950.

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Parsers VC has collected 18 articles mentioning American Medical Student Association Home, among them “The Egg Dilemma: Breakfast Boom Meets Price Surge” (Feb 14, 2025) and “Health | House cats with bird flu could pose a risk to public health” (Feb 13, 2025).

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Yes, American Medical Student Association Home is active; its latest activity on Parsers VC dates from Sep 24, 2026.