AMA Medical Student Section: 2016 AMA Annual Meeting highlights

More than 600 medical students from across the country formalized policy on health care issues affecting medical students and participated in various programming and networking events at the 2016 National Medical Student Meeting, held June 9-11 in Chicago. Medical students filled the ballroom to hear keynote speaker Kevin Pho, MD, discuss making a difference in health care with social media. Students also received advice from Mark Hill, MD, professor of surgery at the Chicago Medical School, on how to impress on the wards, and guidance from Christopher Cimino, MD, chief medical officer and vice president of Kaplan, on surviving the second year of medical school. Other programs included insights on pitching a tech idea and reducing the stigma of medical student mental health. The AMA Medical Student Section (MSS) assembly considered 32 items of business and adopted policy on a wide range of issues. Highlights include: advocating for the elimination of USMLE Step 2 CS and COMLEX level 2-PE exams, supporting the decriminalization of suicide in the military, opposing efforts to restrict public health crisis research, supporting the role spirituality plays in a patient’s health, supporting restrictions on weapons in hospitals, and supporting cultural competency training for medical school students when treating patients who are LGBT+. This meeting represented the fifth implementation of a completely virtual testimony process. The virtual reference committee generated more ...
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