tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33285403750540462092011-04-21T22:16:36.933-07:00culture of (pre)medicinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14328201536586889158noreply@blogger.comBlogger21100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3328540375054046209.post-43611620900306342722008-07-16T13:02:00.001-07:002008-07-16T13:19:35.452-07:00So I was thinking that the first real post should be nothing but good news, so here it is:<br /><br />If you haven't heard, AMSA's <a href="http://www.amsa.org/about/bot.cfm">Board of Trustees</a> passed a motion that adds premedical students to our <a href="http://www.amsa.org/about/">mission statement</a>. (It's kind of wierd that we weren't already on there, right?) At any rate, my motion passed unanimously, so the mission statement now reads:<br /><br /><blockquote>The American Medical Student Association is committed to improving health care and healthcare delivery to all people; promoting active improvement in medical education; involving its members in the social, moral and ethical obligations of the profession of medicine; assisting in the improvement and understanding of world health problems; contributing to the welfare of medical students, premedical students, interns, residents and post-MD/DO trainees; and advancing the profession of medicine.</blockquote>Many thanks to the Board for their continued support of premeds.<br /><br />Now that that is done, I am trolling through the <a href="http://www.amsa.org/about/ppp/">Constitution and Bylaws: Internal Affairs, Preamble, Purposes, and Principles</a> (PPP for short) looking for out of date language that needs to be updated to be inclusive of premedical students. FUN!!<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3328540375054046209-4361162090030634272?l=cultureofpremedicine.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Ken Williamshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08524877207015461428noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3328540375054046209.post-75712128178027139442008-07-16T11:52:00.000-07:002008-07-16T13:01:08.937-07:00Greetings, all.<br /><br />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.<br /><br />To begin, I would like to introduce you to the newly-formed <a href="http://www.amsa.org/culture">culture of medicine</a> committee. below, you will find the vision and mission statements of our committee and some of the projects on which we are working:<br /><br /><ul><li>Vision: We envision a health care system that fosters a culture of wellness and respect and promotes the integrity of the medical profession.</li><br /><li>Mission statement: The culture of medicine action committee is committed to using education, policy, and grassroots organizing in its work on the following:</li><br /><ul><li>Patient-physician relationship/patient-centered care</li><br /><li>Professionalism/ethics in medicine</li><br /><li>Medical errors/patient safety</li><br /><li>Conflicts of interest</li><br /><li>End-life care</li><br /><li>Removing the culture of entitlement that exists in medicine and replacing it with a culture of giving and selflessness</li><br /><li>Political empowerment/engagement of physicians-in-training</li><br /><li>Mental health parity</li><br /><li>Health as a human right</li><br /><li>Educating and empowering physicians-in-training to assume a role in political advocacy</li><br /><li>Empowering premedical students within medicine writ large and amsa writ small</li></ul><br /><li>Projects</li><br /><ul><li>Professionalism and Bioethics Leadership Institute</li><br /><li><a href="http://www.amsa.org/prof/pharmfree.cfm">PharmFree</a></li><br /><ul><li>PharmFree Week</li><br /><li>PharmFree Toolkit</li><br /><li>Premedical PharmFree Toolkit</li><br /><li>No Academic Medical Center Left Behind</li><br /><li>PharmFree Leadership Institute</li><br /><li><a href="http://www.amsascorecard.org/">AMSA Scorecard</a></li><br /><li>Physician Payment Sunshine Act legislative work</li><br /><li>PharmFree Pledge</li><br /><li>Premedical PharmFree Pledge</li></ul><br /><li>Underground Orientation</li><br /><li>60th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights Activities</li><br /><li>Medical textbook and equipment donations</li></ul></ul><br /><p>You can write me at any time at <a href="mailto:amsaken@gmail.com">amsaken@gmail.com</a> with any questions, comments, or concerns, or to find out more about any of our projects!</p><br /><p>Thanks!!</p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3328540375054046209-7571212817802713944?l=cultureofpremedicine.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Ken Williamshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08524877207015461428noreply@blogger.com5