The AMA-MSS offers a limited number of Travel Grants to increase participation in the AMA- MSS national meetings by medical students who are underrepresented and disadvantaged in medicine and to provide more leadership and networking opportunities for these students.
Priority will be given to applicants who:
1. attend a medical school with historically low attendance at AMA-MSS national meetings; and
2. identify with group(s) underrepresented and disadvantaged in medicine; and/or
3. are from medically underserved areas; and/or
4. are first generation college graduates.
Applications will be reviewed twice each year, approximately two months in advance of the AMA Annual and Interim Meetings. Travel Grants will be distributed via post-meeting reimbursement of AMA-approved meeting-related expenses (e.g., airfare, hotel, meals), up to a maximum of $500.
1 AMA uses the AAMC definition of underrepresented in medicine: “Racial and ethnic populations that are underrepresented in the medical profession relative to their numbers in the general population."
2 AMA defines “medically underserved areas” as areas or populations designated by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) as having too few primary care providers, high infant mortality, high poverty or a high elderly population.