American Medical Association - Charitable Activities

Charitable Activities

• The AMA Foundation provides approximately $1,000,000 annually in tuition assistance to financially needy students. This has to be seen on the background that in 2007, graduating medical students carried a mean debt load of $140,000 which rose to $220,000 after 4 yrs of negative amortization during residency medical student debt has increased by 7% each successive year.
• Funds awareness projects about health literacy
• Funds community service, community health, and healthcare education events held by local medical societies and student chapters
• Supports research funding for students and fellows around the U.S.
• Provides grants to community projects designed to encourage healthy lifestyles (of diet and exercise, good sleep habits, etc.).
• The Worldscopes project is a collaboration with the medical community to collect stethoscopes and the funds to buy them. The stethoscopes are then distributed to those in the global medical community who normally lack the resources to obtain the instruments. Thousands of stethoscopes have been sent to physicians and others in the medical community around the world who lack access to this medical instrument.