When you join UC Berkeley AMSA, you become more than just a part of a premedical organization on campus. We emphasize leadership as well as professionalism. On a national level, you also become part of a vital force of future physicians who believe that patients and health professionals are partners in the management of health care and that access to high-quality healthcare is a right and not a privilege. At AMSA, activism is a way of life. Student idealism is transformed into meaningful public service, innovation and institutional change.
We participate in a number of short and long term volunteer projects including work with foster care kids, the disabled, the elderly and the homeless. Our Action Committees (see sidebar menu under "Committees") are dedicated to exploring humanistic and current social developments in the medical world.
We also work to create a support network for premeds at Cal. Annually, AMSA organizes the UC Berkeley Pre-Health Conference (click here for last year's program) in the spring to provide access to useful, interesting, fun pre-health workshops and resources. You can learn even more at our general meetings and events.