Medical Students
Working closely with the American Medical Student Association (AMSA), PNHP has medical student members both locally and nationally. If you are interested in working with our students at New York metropolitan area medical schools, please contact us. Students are or will soon be working on medical school campuses throughout the area — Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Columbia University's College of Physicians and Surgeons, CUNY Medical School/Sophie Davis School of Biomedical Education, Mt. Sinai Medical School, New Jersey Medical School, New York College of Osteopathic Medicine, New York Medical College, New York University School of Medicine, SUNY Downstate in Brooklyn, SUNY at Stony Brook, Weill Medical College of Cornell University — to stimulate campus-based activity for universal health care, including bringing PNHP speakers to campus.
PNHP Medical Student Discussion Board
Why
Medical Students Should Support
Single Payer National Health Insurance
Medical Students: Win a Free Trip to Toronto!
The PNHP-NY Metro Medical Student Essay Contest
Join a team of ten PNHP members on a "fact-finding mission" to see how the Canadian single-payer system actually works. Empower yourself in public speaking and writing by integrating direct personal experience of a Medicare-for-All system. Organized in conjunction with our colleagues at Canadian Doctors for Medicare, the trip to Toronto will consist of:
- Group visits to hospitals and clinics
- One-on-one shadowing opportunities with doctors and nurses
- Meetings with health care providers and administrators
- Press events
This initiative may be the first in a series of visits to Canada this year from PNHP chapters across the country. Join the trip that will start a wave!
Dates of program: Tuesday and Wednesday, April 12 and 13, 2011
Deadline for essay submission: Monday, March 14, 2011
Notification of winner: Monday, March 21, 2011 (winner will also be announced at our March 22 forum)
Prize: roundtrip airfare from NYC to Toronto for specified dates, lodging for the length of the trip
Submit your essay or questions to: Laurie Wen, Executive Director, laurie@pnhpnymetro.org
The Essay:
Why do we need a single-payer health care system in the U.S.? (maximum 1,500 words)
Possible themes:
- Why the new health reform bill (The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act) will neither provide universal coverage nor contain costs
- Why proposals to cut Medicare are misdirected, and why we should instead improve and expand Medicare to all
- A theme of your choosing