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APAMSA is the Asian Pacific American Medical Student
Association. We are a national organization that aims to address
those issues important to Asian-American medical students.
One part of our mission is to bring together Asians
and others interested in the health issues that affect Asians so that
we may have a strong, collective, public and political voice. We are
interested in both directly promoting the health and well-being of the
Asian community as well as in helping all health care workers who work
with these  communities understand how to care for the Asian patient
in a culturally sensitive manner. Finally, APAMSA provides an important
forum for APA medical students to meet, exchange information and experiences
and develop personally and professionally.
APAMSA's foundation was laid in 1993 by Asian American
students worried about the present and future of their community and
their role in it. These students began to discuss issues that they felt
were ignored by existing organizations and formed groups at their local
schools to help understand the unique challenges they faced as Asian
Americans in medicine. Largely composed of students from east coast
schools, these chapters also began to meet with each other in what would
lead to the now annual APAMSA National Conference.
APAMSA officially started in 1995 with the first National
Conference and has grown in many directions. As you can see on this
site, there are several projects APAMSA is involved with. These include
the Hepatitis B education and immunization project, and the Bone Marrow
Donation project.
As our membership and sponsorship increases, we hope to expand our involvement
in related campaigns.
APAMSA also has strong stances on many issues. Being
an organization based on health care, we have spoken out against smoking
and tobacco use targeting the Asian community, for responsible alcohol
use, for immunization and for health standards addressing needs of the
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