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The American Medical Student Association (AMSA) is an independent national organization of medical students. In individual schools AMSA plays an active role in student life through community service projects, workshops, and speaker presentations. These activities help keep medical students aware of the world around them.
National membership in AMSA provides many advantages. Members receive The New Physician, AMSA’s national magazine, each month. Other benefits include discounts on certain medical texts, availability of health and life insurance and opportunities for students wishing to spend a few months working abroad. AMSA is open to all medical students and their participation is welcome.
Medical students have a place in organized medicine through student membership in the American Medical Association (AMA). Each accredited medical school in the U.S. can be represented in the AMA-Medical Students Section (AMA-MSS) by a delegate and alternate delegate, who are the voting members. Nevertheless, assemblies are open to all medical students and any student may submit a resolution to AMA-MSS for consideration.
Alpha Omega Alpha (AOA) is the only national honor medical society in the world. Its goal can be expressed in a phrase: to recognize and perpetuate excellence in the medical profession. Organized nationally in 1902, the PHSU chapter was chartered in 1990.
Medical students, faculty and alumni can be selected for AOA membership. Scholastic achievement is a prime consideration but is not the sole criterion for election. Integrity, leadership, and devotion to the welfare of one’s fellowman are important attributes. A maximum of one sixth of each graduating class may be inducted into the honor society. Membership may also be extended to faculty and alumni who have established themselves as local or national leaders in clinical practice, medical education, or biomedical research.
Each year the honor society sponsors a variety of activities aimed at enriching educational environment such as the community service projects designed by its members to achieve the principle behind the society’s motto which is “worthy to serve the suffering”.
Specialty Interest Groups have the purpose of helping the medical student learn more about the specialty as a career of choice. It also prepares the students for the resident matching process and promotes activities in the community. Some interest groups are Family Medicine, Surgery, Pediatrics, Internal Medicine, and others.
The Graduate Student’s Association (GSA) is a fully autonomous student body that represents all graduate students to the community of Ponce Health Sciences University (PHSU). The GSA formally represents the interests, ideas and suggestions of the graduate students and helps individual graduate students with specific problems related to all aspects of the graduate program. One of the main goals of the GSA is to promote communication between the graduate students themselves, as well as between the school’s administration and its various departments.
The PsyD Student Association was founded in l999 as a forum for discussion of recent issues in Psychology. Its mission also includes support to the student body and community service.
PHSU Tuna: It is the first tuna of a School of Medicine in Puerto Rico and the Caribbean; it aims to create a group for any student of our institution who is interested in a space of brotherhood, music, and service.
A comprehensive list of the authorized associations is available on the PHSU Web Page.
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