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AAMC | Organization of Student Representatives

February 2014

Grants & Scholarships


Underrepresented students are invited to apply for a Summer at the University of California, San Diego. The deadline for the Ruth is April 1.

Psychiatry Research Fellowship

Jackson-Steindler Orthopaedic Clerkship at the University of Iowa

Competitions
Your poster

on hot spotting could win $3,000 for your favorite charity at the Population Health Colloquium, March 17-19, 2014, in Philadelphia. Essay Contest on the
therapeutic value of clinical encounters.

The American Balint Society has announced its inaugural Student/Resident

Reading & Watching


Submissions to the AMSA Medical

Humanities Anthology are due Feb. 14.

in-Training is seeking articles and essays by medical students as well as students interested in
joining its editorial board.

Legislative Affairs
Read complete summaries on the OSR Legislative Affairs Updates page.

House easily passes first omnibus spending bill ($1 trillion) since 2011 with bipartisan
compromise.

AARP backs bipartisan legislation that hopes to improve care for the chronically ill by changing
provider reimbursement.

Federal judge upholds Obamacare subsidies regardless of state or federal exchange. policies for 2015. bill

The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) voted on payment

Confusion with preventative care under the Affordable Care Act causes some insurers to incorrectly

patients.

Study: Allowing people to stay in existing insurance plans unlikely

to disrupt exchanges.

A 20% increase in Medicaid and CHIP eligibility may imply more states should utilize the
Affordable Care Acts expansion offer.

The OSR Communications Committee Drew Doering, Western Region Allison Hunter, Southern Region Regina Kwon, National Delegate Cara Schroeder, Central Region Peter Wingfield, Northeast Region Legislative Affairs Update Leland Husband, National Delegate

The Organization of Student Representatives is the student branch of the Association of American Medical Colleges. We work with deans, faculty, and administrators at all LCME-accredited medical schools to promote the interests of students. Interested in becoming involved in the OSR? Find out more.

Appendix I: American Balint Society Essay Contest

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Appendix II: MHSP Anthology

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Appendix III: in-Training call for submissions

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in-Training (in-training.org), the online magazine for medical students, is looking for medical students of all class years to submit articles and essays about their experiences in medicine for peer-edited online publication. With an emphasis on humanism in medicine, in-Training is run entirely by medical students and serves as an outlet for budding physician-journalists and writers at all medical schools around the globe. in-Training is also looking for medical student editors to join our 16-member Editorial Board. If you are interested in editing and working with a dynamic staff to produce in-Training, please contact us at editorinchief@intraining.org. Since we went live in July 2012, we have published 240 articles from 109 writers at 55 institutions across the United States, Canada, India, UAE, and the Dutch Antilles. in-Training was featured on the Scientific American Incubator blog and our articles have been covered on KevinMD, AAMC's Careers in Medicine website, and Stanford's Scope blog. We also host an oral narratives podcast entitled "Inside Stories" that catalogs the perspectives of medical students during their training. We invite students and faculty to visit in-Training at in-training.org and subscribe to our twice-monthly newsletter at in-training.org/newsletter. Please fill out our interest form at tinyurl.com/intraining or contact us at editorinchief@in-training.org if you are interested in writing, editing or reporting for in-Training. Best, Ajay Major, MBA and Aleena Paul, MBA Class of 2016 at Albany Medical College Editors-in-Chief of in-Training

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