title: The American Medical Student Association's contributions to advancing primary care.
abstract: The American Medical Student Association (AMSA) Foundation is the programming arm of AMSA. The AMSA Foundation has administered several Title VII contracts designed to enhance the primary care education, leadership development, and cultural competence of the next generation of physicians, dentists, and other graduate-level health professionals. The authors discuss several AMSA programs developed with Title VII funding: Generalist Physicians in Training; Promoting, Reinforcing, and Improving Medical Education; National Primary Care Week; Leadership Seminar Series; and Achieving Diversity in Dentistry and Medicine. This article summarizes the work of these programs and discusses the impact that decreased funding has had on the training of our nation's future health professionals.This article is part of a theme issue of Academic Medicine on the Title VII health professions training programs.
authors.affiliation: American Medical Student Association Foundation, Reston, Virginia 20191, USA. joan_h@amsa.org
authors.forename: Joan
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Hedgecock
authors.forename: Terrence E
authors.initials: TE
authors.lastname: Steyer
mesh_terms: D018864:Cultural Diversity; D003479:Curriculum; D005380:Financing, Government / Q000266:history / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D049673:History, 20th Century; D049674:History, 21st Century; D006801:Humans; D007857:Leadership; D010821:Physicians, Family / Q000193:education*; D011320:Primary Health Care / Q000458:organization & administration*; D012952:Societies / Q000191:economics* / Q000266:history; D013337:Students, Medical; D014146:Training Support / Q000266:history / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D014481:United States