Welcome to the Culture of (Pre)Medicine

Greetings, all.

For those of you who don't know me, my name is Ken Williams. I am your premedical represetative on the culture of medicine action committee.

To begin, I would like to introduce you to the newly-formed culture of medicine committee. below, you will find the vision and mission statements of our committee and some of the projects on which we are working:

• Vision: We envision a health care system that fosters a culture of wellness and respect and promotes the integrity of the medical profession.


• Mission statement: The culture of medicine action committee is committed to using education, policy, and grassroots organizing in its work on the following:


• Patient-physician relationship/patient-centered care


• Professionalism/ethics in medicine


• Medical errors/patient safety


• Conflicts of interest


• End-life care


• Removing the culture of entitlement that exists in medicine and replacing it with a culture of giving and selflessness


• Political empowerment/engagement of physicians-in-training


• Mental health parity


• Health as a human right


• Educating and empowering physicians-in-training to assume a role in political advocacy


• Empowering premedical students within medicine writ large and amsa writ small


• Projects


• Professionalism and Bioethics Leadership Institute


• PharmFree


• PharmFree Week


• PharmFree Toolkit


• Premedical PharmFree Toolkit


• No Academic Medical Center Left Behind


• PharmFree Leadership Institute


• AMSA Scorecard


• Physician Payment Sunshine Act legislative work


• PharmFree Pledge


• Premedical PharmFree Pledge


• Underground Orientation


• 60th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights Activities


• Medical textbook and equipment donations

You can write me at any time at amsaken@gmail.com with any questions, comments, or concerns, or to find out more about any of our projects!

Thanks!!