American Medical Student Association

of St James School of Medicine

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Join us tomorrow for a Mental Health talk with Dr Talis, a Psychiatry Resident at Rutgers NJMS.

Zoom link: https://zoom.us/j/93174369199?pwd=ZnpKcXJmK3FsR2tYRHVPK1AxajRyZz09

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When COVID struck, it affected more than just the US economy and lifestyle. As fear, isolation, and anxiety have increased in our communities, so has the risk of substance use disorder and the risk of adverse outcomes as few as 11% of those at risk seek help and the death toll mounts. These events do not just affect the individuals, but also their loved ones, families, and communities. In an effort to meet the demand for innovative ways to meet the new challenge, academic medical centers are taking the initiative and reaching out to help clinicians with materials aimed at learning about addiction response during COVID...

When a Pandemic and an Epidemic Collide

by LISA HOWLEY Since the pandemic began, more than 40 states have reported increases in substance- related deaths.

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Order Form for T-Shirt Fundraiser

This is the order form for the shirts. Please only fill this out if you would like to purchase a shirt! You can Venmo Haley Gallaher (Hdgall

We have posted the shirt order forms for the Fundraiser.

Remember: buying a shirt gets you 25 POINTS!

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Our fundraiser has started! Don't miss the chance to get one of these great designs and help AMSA fund our semester activities! Sale ends October 23 :) https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfu5vzbf3t5_BbzB8KeI4OXxtXO1F8tjtygFpYPaxaxvsjZRQ/viewform

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Good morning! We have posted the shirt order forms for our AMSA Fundraiser. Remember: buying a shirt gets you 25 POINTS! See our bio for our FB page/link! https://www.instagram.com/p/CGQxOrknUqN/?igshid=1w5mpyu1vm6pb

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AMSA's future physicians are motivated to make a difference to making our world a better place. We have different venues to suit all our different interests. Are you interested in the environment? Advocate for policies that support our health and well-being. Join the Environmental Health Committee and help us build a brighter future. Email [email protected] for more details on how you can get involved.

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#AMSA #AMSANational #medicine #medstudents #medschool #environment #advocacy #policy #health #med #doctors #docs https://www.instagram.com/p/CF_ay1xHgQZ/?igshid=18smmxtr0osv9

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RSVP here 👉 https://buff.ly/3jhAAeU and send along your questions ASAP! See our bio. Visit FB page for links👈 AMSA #AMSANational #medicine #medstudents #medschool #environment #advocacy #policy #health #med #doctors #docs #sjsmanguilla https://www.instagram.com/p/CF_Yq6DHPAT/?igshid=9ish4xjvcbe3

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National Primary Care Week (NPCW) 2020 will be held October 5 – 9, 2020. Our focus this year is for students and physicians to take action in their communities to elevate the discourse around building the primary care workforce and primary care physicians’ crucial role in preventing disease, eliminating health disparities, and LGBTQ health. The topics for the five days of the week are: TBA. See our bio🔥 https://www.instagram.com/p/CF_YPT8H-5p/?igshid=przp0m6x6sjg

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Some of us are meant to make a change further away than we ever thought possible. The world is full of possibilities. Reach for the stars!🌟🔥

CFHI's 40+ programs in 11 countries connect students with local health professionals and community leaders transforming perspectives about self, global health, and healing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qbZEL39_Qs&feature=share

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Every person who seeks health care should be affirmed, respected, understood, and not judged. However, trans and gender diverse people have experienced significant marginalization and discrimination in health care settings. Health professionals are generally not adequately prepared by current curricula to provide appropriate healthcare to trans and gender diverse people. This strongly implies that health care students would benefit from curricula which facilitate learning about gender-affirming health care. Trans and gender diverse people have been pathologized by the medical profession, through classifications of mental illness in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) and International Classification of Disease (ICD). Although this is changing in the new ICD-11, tension remains between depathologization discourses and access to gender-affirming health care. Trans and gender diverse people experience significant health disparities and an increased burden of disease, specifically in the areas of mental health, Human Immunodeficiency Virus, violence and victimisation. Many of these health disparities originate from discrimination and systemic biases that decrease access to care, as well as from health professional ignorance. This paper will outline gaps in health science curricula that have been described in different contexts, and specific educational interventions that have attempted to improve awareness, knowledge and skills related to gender-affirming health care. The education of primary care providers is critical, as in much of the world, specialist services for gender-affirming health care are not widely available. The ethics of the gatekeeping model, where service providers decide who can access care, will be discussed and contrasted with the informed-consent model that upholds autonomy by empowering patients to make their own health care decisions. There is an ethical imperative for health professionals to reduce health care disparities of trans and gender diverse people and practice within the health care values of social justice and cultural humility. As health science educators, we have an ethical duty to include gender-affirming health in health science curricula in order to prevent harm to the trans and gender diverse patients that our students will provide care for in the future.

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Training and learning

Today’s health emergencies are increasingly complex. We live in a globalized, urbanized and connected world where people, vectors and goods are constantly on the move. These movements amplify the threats to our health from infectious hazards, natural disasters, armed conflicts and other emergencies wherever they occur.

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AIDS Advocacy Network - AMSA

Who We Are The AIDS Advocacy Network (AAN) is a group of passionate student-activists dedicated to ending the HIV/AIDS pandemic. We use our powerful voices as current and future health professional students to advance evidence-based interventions to reduce stigma and transmission of the virus. We seek to build a movement of young health professionals students to maximize our power and push leaders to act now to put us on the fast-track to ending the pandemic.

What We Do

Our campaigns shift each year with ongoing developments in the pandemic, but our goals remain the same:

0 Deaths from AIDS-related causes

0 New transmissions

0 Stigma

These goals are based the United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS and go hand in hand with ambition targets to have 90% of people living with HIV (PLWH) knowing their status, 90% of those people on treatment, and 90% of those with an undetectable viral load. However, these goals cannot be realized without diligent, persistent resources from the resource-rich nations of the world. Through the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) and the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, the United States has been a leader in the fight to end the pandemic – but this progress is threatened by a lack of political will and leadership.

How to Get Involved

Join our listserv: Subscribe with a Google Account or send an email to [email protected]

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at The Arch - Anguilla West End https://www.instagram.com/p/CFBWgChnCjd/?igshid=1s3651upbd1rr

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Virtual discussion. Ebony people's moderated a discussion panel on Racial Inewuity in American healthcare with Dr Nduom, Dr Leigh-Ann Webb, Dr Taison Bell, and Dr Valerie Fitzhugh.

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AMSA Members Meeting

Networking event in The Valley, Anguilla by St James School of Medicine AMSA Chapter on Thursday, September 10 2020

Welcome to Fall 2020! We would like to invite our members to join us this Thursday at 2:00 PM ET/Anguilla Time for a Virtual SJSM AMSA Member Meeting.

This semester, our Board Members are excited to introduce some changes to our chapter. We will be discussing: upcoming campaigns, interest groups, action committees, a new improved point system, and ideas for future fundraisers. We will also be addressing changes to our constitution and submitting them for a vote. Finally, we encourage discussion and input from our members so that we can make this semester the best yet!

We look forward to seeing you there!