Action Committees

Community and Public Health

• Exploring the world of medicine’s relation our environment

• Determining tactics that will improve the health of our communities

• Educating others health disparities within medicine 

  • Socioeconomic 

  • Physical

• Promotion of primary care medicine

  • Preventative approach 

• Wonderful for those looking into Dual Degree Programs

  • Master of Public Health 

  • MD/MPH

Environmental Health

• Increasing medicine’s reach outside of medical centers

• Implementing education regarding climate change/global warming into medical practice 

• Develop and Promote Legislation that protects our environments 

• Integrate changes to daily life to alter environmental change 

• Continue education of importance of the relationship of medicine to environment 

  • Medications 

  • Operating Equipment 

  • Resources

Gender and Sexuality

• Abolishing sexism and heterosexism in medicine 

• Promote a medical field that is inclusive to ALL individuals 

  • Women’s health/rights 

  • LGBTQ+ individuals 

  • Improve policy regarding health and inclusion at each level of government 

• Develop a well-trusted, safe environment for patients and providers

Global Health

• Applying medical research and practice to international health 

• Acknowledging and combating medical conflicts that have no boundaries 

• Topics of interest: 

  • HIV/AIDS

  • Tuberculosis 

  • Child and Maternal Health 

  • Refugee Health 

  • Health and Human Rights

Health Policy

• Combining politics with the world of medicine 

• Focuses on implementing health policy reforms to improve one individual:

  • Patient

• Actions to take: 

  • Calling Representatives 

  • Attending town halls 

  • Using social media to contact/spread awareness

  • Writing letters to representatives 

  • Writing Op-Eds for publishing 

Race, Ethnicity, and Culture In Health

• Combating health disparities in marginalized communities

• Improving cultural competence 

  • Knowledge and understanding different cultures 

  • May alter treatment plan 

  • Respect for patients

• Promote an inclusive medical field 

  • Religion 

  • Tradition

• Encourage providers to include their voice in political/social movements

  • Positively alter health equity

Wellness and Student Life

• Improvement of self-maintenance 

• Improving patient care due to healthy, well-balanced providers 

• Combining integrative/complementary/alternative medicine

  • With addition to help heal via intangible mechanisms

• Includes: 

  • Community involvement

  • Creativity 

  • Personal Reflection 

  • Public engagement

Medical Education

• Preparing members with education needed to be caring but knowledgeable physicians.

• Educate knowledge with MCAT preparation and course-specific study groups.

• Provide data on medical schools across the US to help members decide where to apply based on their needs. 

• Educate on the science of sociology and how structure has influenced health across the US.