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MSS Members on the AMA Board of TrusteesIt was wonderful to visit with our three most recent medical student trustees on...
06/01/2026

MSS Members on the AMA Board of Trustees

It was wonderful to visit with our three most recent medical student trustees on the AMA Board at a dinner in Chicago a few weeks ago.

From left to right,
Aliya Siddiqui, whose term ended June 2025 (I was honored to be Aliya’s designated mentor);
Justin McGrath, whose term ends this June;
and Kylie Ruprecht, who begins her term in June 2026.

Over my eight years on the AMA Board of Trustees, all our medical student trustees have been stars in every sense of the word:
Eloquent, passionate advocates for the issues they hold dear. Boundless enthusiasm and exuberance.
And always the real conscience of the board.

Kylie, you have some big shoes to fill, but I know you will do a phenomenal job!

Congratulations, Lanier!We are so excited that Lanier Gordon has been accepted to medical school! Lanier has been shado...
05/27/2026

Congratulations, Lanier!

We are so excited that Lanier Gordon has been accepted to medical school! Lanier has been shadowing and working in my internal medicine office for several years. She started working while she was in college. We are so proud of her!

I am so excited for her and for others who’ve accepted the calling of medicine. But medical school is expensive, and with OBBA’s new student loan changes, I worry that many qualified students will not be able to fulfill their dream of becoming a physician because they won’t be able to afford it.
I could not have gone to medical school without student loans.

This is a real problem for the health of our country. We are expecting a shortage of 86,000 physicians by year 2036.

We must get these student loan provisions changed.

HHS Secretary Kennedy now has the US Preventive Services Task Force in his cross-hairs. Two USPSTF leaders, Dr. John Won...
05/21/2026

HHS Secretary Kennedy now has the US Preventive Services Task Force in his cross-hairs.

Two USPSTF leaders, Dr. John Wong (professor at Tufts University School of Medicine) and Dr. Esa Davis (professor at the University of Maryland School of Medicine), have been fired by Kennedy.

Get ready for the same kind of foolishness we saw with vaccines to infect this task force’s evidence-based recommendations for services like mammograms and colonoscopies.

Here are more details:

https://www.medpagetoday.com/publichealthpolicy/washington-watch/120819

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/20/well/rfk-jr-firings-preventative-services-task-force.html

05/07/2026

Changes in Student Loans: the debacle begins July 1, 2026.

The new student loan provisions are inadequate for medical students. Changes impact this year’s medical school class.

A lifetime combined undergrad/grad cap of only $257,000 is unreasonable since the actual cost of graduating from medical school is around $300,000 for state schools and $400,000 for private schools.

For the health of the nation, this has to change.

This article in Annals of Internal Medicine takes a closer look at the consequences for students as they try to finance medical school in this new policy landscape:
https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/ANNALS-25-05391

This resource from the Texas Medical Association also has more details:
https://www.texmed.org/TexasMedicineDetail.aspx?Pageid=46106&id=66900

Too frail to work! One of the biggest exemptions to the Medicaid work requirements in HR 1 is “medical frailty.” How sta...
04/30/2026

Too frail to work!
One of the biggest exemptions to the Medicaid work requirements in HR 1 is “medical frailty.”

How states define that will result in keeping more people covered by, or kicking more people off, Medicaid.

AMA urges physicians to advocate for state policies that protect fragile patients, reflect clinical evidence, and rely on lists of billing codes that include diagnoses, medications, service utilization, and durable equipment use.

States must act to keep eligible beneficiaries on the rolls.

These two articles in Modern Healthcare have more details:

http://www.modernhealthcare.com/politics-regulation/mh-medicaid-work-requirements-medical-frailty-definition/

http://www.modernhealthcare.com/politics-regulation/mh-medicaid-work-requirements-cms-guidance/

04/16/2026

Who do you want to captain the airplane, or the ship?
The clear answer is: The most experienced member of the team.

For the same reason, patients deserve to have a physician leading their care. This is a patient safety issue!

The Governor of New Hampshire just vetoed a bill, HB 349, that would have allowed optometrists to perform complex eye surgeries on patients in New Hampshire.

This action has reaffirmed the importance of patient safety and high-quality care, emphasizing that eye surgery must be performed by physicians with extensive clinical and surgical training.

The New Hampshire legislature also voted to sustain the governor’s veto. This is a true victory for patient safety.

Here are more details:
https://www.ama-assn.org/health-care-advocacy/advocacy-update/april-3-2026-state-advocacy-update

IMG physician shortage exacerbated by $100,000 H-1B Visa feeIMG physicians, hospitals, and institutions are simply unabl...
04/09/2026

IMG physician shortage exacerbated by $100,000 H-1B Visa fee

IMG physicians, hospitals, and institutions are simply unable to pay this fee. This barrier is devastating for communities in underserved and rural areas.
Kudos to Georgia Congressman Sanford Bishop for introducing bipartisan legislation to exempt physicians and other health care workers from this $100,000 fee.

Here are more details about this bill:
https://bishop.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/bishop-lawler-salazar-clarke-introduce-bipartisan-bill-to-protect-healthcare-workforce-maintain-patient-access

04/01/2026

SOAP: Supplemental Offer and Acceptance Program and its last minute Match options.

More than 93% of positions were filled nationwide on Match Day 2026.
Those who didn’t match were able to participate in SOAP. This year, some 2,581 SOAP positions were offered (330 more than last year). I talked with a young physician who successfully went through SOAP this year. She shared some advice from her experience for success through SOAP.

These links provide more information:

https://www.ama-assn.org/medical-students/preparing-residency/what-know-about-soaps-last-minute-match-options

https://www.nrmp.org/match-data/2026/03/nrmp-releases-results-for-2026-main-residency-match/

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